This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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I need you in my life you need me in your life you know that I'm a always be your best friend and when you feeling down you know I'll be around
I can be your best friend you can count on me to ride for you until the end and you know that chu can call if you need me you never had a friend this dam good baby girl I've been thinking I can be your best friend you can count on me to ride for you until the end and you know that chu can call if you need me you never had a friend this dam good believe me girl
I can be your best friend and you could be mine too cause baby anything you go through I'll go through it too and you're the reason why I stepped up and became a man and girl I love that sexy face that you make when your mad plus when I get home late you don't trip on where I waz cause you know that I'm out there hustling for you and my son I could be your best friend so when your talking I'll listen you can tell me all about how your girl waz trippin about she said something about somebody else I love the way you hold it down I love the way I'm feeling now and it's alright cause you feel the same too I could be your best friend and you could be mine too yea
I can be your best friend you can count on me to ride for you until the end and you know that chu can call if you need me you never had a friend this dam good baby girl I've been thinking I can be your best friend you can count on me to ride for you until the end and you know that chu can call if you need me you never had a friend this dam good believe me girl
The only women that I trust with the key to my safe you keep me up all night with that good love we make you see I never thought I meet somebody quite like you the way you always hold it down and how you keep it true the way you walk pass sexy just to tease me a little you got me hard as a rock but you're as soft as a pillow and I confess I don't lie baby you be the witness I do what I do and always handle my business and I would do almost anything for one of your kisses you're so delicious and being with you is what my only wish is so when you need me you best believe I'm here until the end baby girl yea you got a friend
I can be your best friend you can count on me to ride for you until the end and you know that chu can call if you need me you never had a friend this dam good baby girl I've been thinking I can be your best friend you can count on me to ride for you until the end and you know that chu can call if you need me you never had a friend this dam good believe me girl I need you in my life you need me in your life you know that I'm a always be your best friend and when you feeling down you know I'll be around I promise I'm a always be your best friend
And every time you need me I'll be there in a hurry that's why you don't have to be scared and you don't have to be worried I'll be there when you slip or help you not fall at all you see we been around the block so we been through it all and I love the way you come around playing let your hair down in complements on the rest of your body baby your perfect I love the way you work it with your cherry lip gloss baby girl your tip top me and you let's get lost
I can be your best friend you can count on me to ride for you until the end and you know that chu can call if you need me you never had a friend this dam good baby girl I've been thinking I can be your best friend you can count on me to ride for you until the end and you know that chu can call if you need me you never had a friend this dam good believe me girl
I need you in my life you need me in your life you know that I'm a always be your best friend and when you feeling down you know I'll be around
I can be your best friend you can count on me to ride for you until the end and you know that chu can call if you need me you never had a friend this dam good baby girl I've been thinking I can be your best friend you can count on me to ride for you until the end and you know that chu can call if you need me you never had a friend this dam good believe me girl
I can be your best friend and you could be mine too cause baby anything you go through I'll go through it too and you're the reason why I stepped up and became a man and girl I love that sexy face that you make when your mad plus when I get home late you don't trip on where I waz cause you know that I'm out there hustling for you and my son I could be your best friend so when your talking I'll listen you can tell me all about how your girl waz trippin about she said something about somebody else I love the way you hold it down I love the way I'm feeling now and it's alright cause you feel the same too I could be your best friend and you could be mine too yea
I can be your best friend you can count on me to ride for you until the end and you know that chu can call if you need me you never had a friend this dam good baby girl I've been thinking I can be your best friend you can count on me to ride for you until the end and you know that chu can call if you need me you never had a friend this dam good believe me girl
The only women that I trust with the key to my safe you keep me up all night with that good love we make you see I never thought I meet somebody quite like you the way you always hold it down and how you keep it true the way you walk pass sexy just to tease me a little you got me hard as a rock but you're as soft as a pillow and I confess I don't lie baby you be the witness I do what I do and always handle my business and I would do almost anything for one of your kisses you're so delicious and being with you is what my only wish is so when you need me you best believe I'm here until the end baby girl yea you got a friend
I can be your best friend you can count on me to ride for you until the end and you know that chu can call if you need me you never had a friend this dam good baby girl I've been thinking I can be your best friend you can count on me to ride for you until the end and you know that chu can call if you need me you never had a friend this dam good believe me girl I need you in my life you need me in your life you know that I'm a always be your best friend and when you feeling down you know I'll be around I promise I'm a always be your best friend
And every time you need me I'll be there in a hurry that's why you don't have to be scared and you don't have to be worried I'll be there when you slip or help you not fall at all you see we been around the block so we been through it all and I love the way you come around playing let your hair down in complements on the rest of your body baby your perfect I love the way you work it with your cherry lip gloss baby girl your tip top me and you let's get lost
I can be your best friend you can count on me to ride for you until the end and you know that chu can call if you need me you never had a friend this dam good baby girl I've been thinking I can be your best friend you can count on me to ride for you until the end and you know that chu can call if you need me you never had a friend this dam good believe me girl
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Best Friend Lyrics as written by Harry Nilsson
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