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"
What you do to me is indescribable
Got me sparkling just like an emerald
Set my soul on fire and make me wild
Like the deep blue sea
No other boy ever made me feel beautiful
When I'm in your arms
Feel like I have it all
Is it your tattoos or golden grill
That makes me feel this way?
Got me spinnin' like a ballerina
Feelin' gangsta every time I see ya
You're the king and, baby, I'm the queen of
Disaster, disaster
Got me spinnin' like a ballerina
You're the bad boy that I always dreamed of
You're the king and, baby, I'm the queen of
Disaster, disaster
Got mascara thick, I get emotional
You know, I was more than just a party girl
Isn't hard to see what's going on
I'm so far gone (Mmm, so far gone)
When I saw your face, it was incredible
Painted on my soul, it was indelible
('Cause you're the one)
Let's celebrate our twisted fate
We're the broken ones
Got me spinnin' like a ballerina
Feelin' gangsta every time I see ya
You're the king and, baby, I'm the queen of
Disaster, disaster
You got me spinnin' like a ballerina
You're the bad boy that I always dreamed of
You're the king and baby, I'm the queen of
Disaster, disaster
Ladies and gentlemen
For the very first time!
You got me spinnin' like a ballerina
Feelin' gangsta every time I see ya
You're the king and, baby, I'm the queen of
Disaster (Disaster) , disaster (Disaster)
You got me spinnin' like a ballerina
You're the bad boy that I always dreamed of
You're the king and I'm the beauty queen of
Disaster, disaster
Got me sparkling just like an emerald
Set my soul on fire and make me wild
Like the deep blue sea
No other boy ever made me feel beautiful
When I'm in your arms
Feel like I have it all
Is it your tattoos or golden grill
That makes me feel this way?
Got me spinnin' like a ballerina
Feelin' gangsta every time I see ya
You're the king and, baby, I'm the queen of
Disaster, disaster
Got me spinnin' like a ballerina
You're the bad boy that I always dreamed of
You're the king and, baby, I'm the queen of
Disaster, disaster
Got mascara thick, I get emotional
You know, I was more than just a party girl
Isn't hard to see what's going on
I'm so far gone (Mmm, so far gone)
When I saw your face, it was incredible
Painted on my soul, it was indelible
('Cause you're the one)
Let's celebrate our twisted fate
We're the broken ones
Got me spinnin' like a ballerina
Feelin' gangsta every time I see ya
You're the king and, baby, I'm the queen of
Disaster, disaster
You got me spinnin' like a ballerina
You're the bad boy that I always dreamed of
You're the king and baby, I'm the queen of
Disaster, disaster
Ladies and gentlemen
For the very first time!
You got me spinnin' like a ballerina
Feelin' gangsta every time I see ya
You're the king and, baby, I'm the queen of
Disaster (Disaster) , disaster (Disaster)
You got me spinnin' like a ballerina
You're the bad boy that I always dreamed of
You're the king and I'm the beauty queen of
Disaster, disaster
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