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"
Oh oh a oh
When you walk in them jeans
And I get you with me
Wanna get you driving baby
Come and give me them keys
Get you in my seats
Gonna be my esclalady
Get the stereo up
Like you turning me on
Like were getting louder baby
We could drop the top and show the world just how u
Drive me crazy
Oh oh a oh
It's our big mission
Oh oh a oh
No competition
Oh oh a oh
Nobody here on the road like this and we ain't turning
Back tonight
Turn it up
Turn it up
Turn it up now
Get in the back cause were driving just to get down
Turn it up
Turn it up
Turn it up now
Just let go cause we ain't turning back tonight
(Just let go cause we ain't turning back tonight)
Gonna cruise tonight
'cause we can do this right
Doesn't matter what were facing
'Till the sun come up
Or the stars burn out, we got no
Destination
You can hold my hand
And if your best friend wanna ride
With us
I'm on it
We can double up
I won't just kill it I'm a al Capone
Oh oh a oh
It's our big mission
Oh oh a oh
No competition
Oh oh a oh
Nobody here on the road
Like this and we ain't turning
Back tonight
Turn it up
Turn it up
Turn it up now
Get in the back cause were driving just to get down
Turn it up
Turn it up
Turn it up now
Just let go cause we ain't turning back tonight
Just let go cause we ain't turning back tonight
Oh oh a oh
So turn it up now
Oh oh a oh
Were gonna get down
Oh oh a oh
Nobody here on the road
Like this so we ain't turning
Back
When you walk in them jeans
And I got you with me
And now were driving baby
Get the stereo hot and take that shot
Get ready go oh
Get ready go oh
Turn it up
Turn it up
Turn it up now
Get in the back cause were driving just to get down
Turn it up
Turn it up
Turn it up now
Just let go cause we ain't turning back tonight
Just let go cause we ain't turning back tonight
Oh oh a oh
Oh oh a oh
When you walk in them jeans
And I get you with me
Wanna get you driving baby
Come and give me them keys
Get you in my seats
Gonna be my esclalady
Get the stereo up
Like you turning me on
Like were getting louder baby
We could drop the top and show the world just how u
Drive me crazy
Oh oh a oh
It's our big mission
Oh oh a oh
No competition
Oh oh a oh
Nobody here on the road like this and we ain't turning
Back tonight
Turn it up
Turn it up
Turn it up now
Get in the back cause were driving just to get down
Turn it up
Turn it up
Turn it up now
Just let go cause we ain't turning back tonight
(Just let go cause we ain't turning back tonight)
Gonna cruise tonight
'cause we can do this right
Doesn't matter what were facing
'Till the sun come up
Or the stars burn out, we got no
Destination
You can hold my hand
And if your best friend wanna ride
With us
I'm on it
We can double up
I won't just kill it I'm a al Capone
Oh oh a oh
It's our big mission
Oh oh a oh
No competition
Oh oh a oh
Nobody here on the road
Like this and we ain't turning
Back tonight
Turn it up
Turn it up
Turn it up now
Get in the back cause were driving just to get down
Turn it up
Turn it up
Turn it up now
Just let go cause we ain't turning back tonight
Just let go cause we ain't turning back tonight
Oh oh a oh
So turn it up now
Oh oh a oh
Were gonna get down
Oh oh a oh
Nobody here on the road
Like this so we ain't turning
Back
When you walk in them jeans
And I got you with me
And now were driving baby
Get the stereo hot and take that shot
Get ready go oh
Get ready go oh
Turn it up
Turn it up
Turn it up now
Get in the back cause were driving just to get down
Turn it up
Turn it up
Turn it up now
Just let go cause we ain't turning back tonight
Just let go cause we ain't turning back tonight
Oh oh a oh
Oh oh a oh
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Turn It Up Lyrics as written by Robb Chalifoux Gavin Brown
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Downtown Music Publishing
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