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"
I was stupid, really stupid
Something told me deep inside "Better not do it"
What a dummy, such a dummy
To let some mess I shouldn't have did take you from me
Girl if I could take it back
It'd be so back
I'd be such an angel
You'd think that me and Jesus was cool
Like that, just like that
Everything between us be good
Girl I know what I should have done
Should have walked away the moment that I saw her coming
But I blew it, really blew it
And lost the only girl I love
Dear God, if you're listenin' now
I need you do a thing for me
You see my baby, she done up and walked out
I need you bring her back to me
I know that I was wrong, I was guilty in sin
Probably not priority
But dear God, if you're listenin' now
I'm down here, dyin', beggin', cryin'
Somebody need to pray for me
(Mhm)
(Mhm)
(Mhm)
Dear God if you're listening
(Mmh)
(Mmh)
(Mmh)
Thought I was something, really something
In the end, who knew I'd end up with nothing?
I was fronting, truly fronting
Girl, I really can't be mad, I had it coming
Guess if I was half the man I know I am
I would be so good that even Oprah be jealous of you
It's like that, yeah, like that
Everything between us be good
Girl I know what I should have done
Should have walked away the moment that I saw her coming
But I blew it, really blew it
And lost the only girl I love
Dear God, if you're listenin' now
Need you do one thing for me
You see my baby, she done up and walked out
I need you bring her back to me
I know that I was wrong, I was guilty in sin
Probably not priority (probably not priority)
But dear God, if you're listenin' now
I'm down here, dyin', beggin', cryin'
Somebody oughta pray for me
I'm making you this promise right now
If you can do this one thing for me
I'll be the man that you want
I'll be the man that you need
Church every Sunday
Prayers every Monday
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Just bring my baby back to me
(Dear God, if you're listening now)
(Need you do a thing for me) need you do a thing for me
You see my baby, she done up and walked out
(I need you bring her back to me) ohoh
I know that I was wrong, I was guilty in sin
(Probably not priority)
But dear God, if you're listening now
I'm down here, dyin', (beggin'), cryin'
Somebody oughta pray for me
Oh, lord, lord, lord, lord
Please listen to my cry, yeah
Bring my baby back to me
Oh God, oh, oh, whoa oh, whoa oh
Something told me deep inside "Better not do it"
What a dummy, such a dummy
To let some mess I shouldn't have did take you from me
Girl if I could take it back
It'd be so back
I'd be such an angel
You'd think that me and Jesus was cool
Like that, just like that
Everything between us be good
Girl I know what I should have done
Should have walked away the moment that I saw her coming
But I blew it, really blew it
And lost the only girl I love
Dear God, if you're listenin' now
I need you do a thing for me
You see my baby, she done up and walked out
I need you bring her back to me
I know that I was wrong, I was guilty in sin
Probably not priority
But dear God, if you're listenin' now
I'm down here, dyin', beggin', cryin'
Somebody need to pray for me
(Mhm)
(Mhm)
(Mhm)
Dear God if you're listening
(Mmh)
(Mmh)
(Mmh)
Thought I was something, really something
In the end, who knew I'd end up with nothing?
I was fronting, truly fronting
Girl, I really can't be mad, I had it coming
Guess if I was half the man I know I am
I would be so good that even Oprah be jealous of you
It's like that, yeah, like that
Everything between us be good
Girl I know what I should have done
Should have walked away the moment that I saw her coming
But I blew it, really blew it
And lost the only girl I love
Dear God, if you're listenin' now
Need you do one thing for me
You see my baby, she done up and walked out
I need you bring her back to me
I know that I was wrong, I was guilty in sin
Probably not priority (probably not priority)
But dear God, if you're listenin' now
I'm down here, dyin', beggin', cryin'
Somebody oughta pray for me
I'm making you this promise right now
If you can do this one thing for me
I'll be the man that you want
I'll be the man that you need
Church every Sunday
Prayers every Monday
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Just bring my baby back to me
(Dear God, if you're listening now)
(Need you do a thing for me) need you do a thing for me
You see my baby, she done up and walked out
(I need you bring her back to me) ohoh
I know that I was wrong, I was guilty in sin
(Probably not priority)
But dear God, if you're listening now
I'm down here, dyin', (beggin'), cryin'
Somebody oughta pray for me
Oh, lord, lord, lord, lord
Please listen to my cry, yeah
Bring my baby back to me
Oh God, oh, oh, whoa oh, whoa oh
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