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"
Hello (hello)
Uh, you know you look even better
Than the way you did the night before (before)
And the moment that you kissed my lips
You know I start to feel wonderful (wonderful)
It's something incredible, there's sex in your chemicals
Oh (there's sex in your chemicals)
Ooh, let's go
Uh, you're the best way I know to escape the extraordinary (ordinary)
This world ain't for you and I know for damn sure
This world ain't for me (world ain't for me)
Lift off and say goodbye
Just let your fire set me free
Oh, moonshine, take us to the stars tonight
Take us to that special place
That place we went the last time, the last time
I know (I know)
Uh, I was with you last night
But it feels like it's been so long (so long)
And everybody that's around me knows
That I'm not myself when your gone (self when your gone)
It's good to see you again, good to see you again
On top of the world (the world)
Uh, is where I stand when you're back in my life (in my life)
Life's not so bad when you're way up this high
Everything is alright ('thing is alright)
Everything is alright
Oh, moonshine, take us to the stars tonight
Take us to that special place
That place we went the last time, the last time
Oh, moonshine, your love it makes me come alive
Take us to that special place
That place we went the last time, the last time
Don't look down, don't you never look back
We are not afraid to die young and live fast
Give me good times, give me love, give me laughs
Let's take a ride to the sky before the night is gone
Moonshine, take us to the stars tonight
Take us to that special place
That place we went the last time, the last time
Oh, moonshine, your love it makes me come alive
Take us to that special place
That place we went the last time, the last time
Uh, you know you look even better
Than the way you did the night before (before)
And the moment that you kissed my lips
You know I start to feel wonderful (wonderful)
It's something incredible, there's sex in your chemicals
Oh (there's sex in your chemicals)
Ooh, let's go
Uh, you're the best way I know to escape the extraordinary (ordinary)
This world ain't for you and I know for damn sure
This world ain't for me (world ain't for me)
Lift off and say goodbye
Just let your fire set me free
Oh, moonshine, take us to the stars tonight
Take us to that special place
That place we went the last time, the last time
I know (I know)
Uh, I was with you last night
But it feels like it's been so long (so long)
And everybody that's around me knows
That I'm not myself when your gone (self when your gone)
It's good to see you again, good to see you again
On top of the world (the world)
Uh, is where I stand when you're back in my life (in my life)
Life's not so bad when you're way up this high
Everything is alright ('thing is alright)
Everything is alright
Oh, moonshine, take us to the stars tonight
Take us to that special place
That place we went the last time, the last time
Oh, moonshine, your love it makes me come alive
Take us to that special place
That place we went the last time, the last time
Don't look down, don't you never look back
We are not afraid to die young and live fast
Give me good times, give me love, give me laughs
Let's take a ride to the sky before the night is gone
Moonshine, take us to the stars tonight
Take us to that special place
That place we went the last time, the last time
Oh, moonshine, your love it makes me come alive
Take us to that special place
That place we went the last time, the last time
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Moonshine Lyrics as written by Philip Lawrence Mark Ronson
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