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"
[Skye Townsend - Verse 1:]
I trusted you with my love, trusted you with my mind
Gave you all of my energy, you wasted my time
I trusted you with my family, you with my friends
I gave you all my beginnings, trusted you with my end
I trusted you with my dreams, trusted you with my heart
I should've known not to trust you, when you tore them apart
And I'm sitting here and I'm wondering why?
What did I say to you, you sugarcoated your lies
Oh why
[Karina Pasian - Chorus:]
Yeah, I know he hurt you
Oh, I know he broke your heart, girl
But I know he's different now, he's loved me from the start
Yeah, I know he hurt you
Yeah, I know he broke your heart, girl
I swear he's right for me yeah, I swear he's good to me
And if you can't see that then you should just leave me
[Skye Townsend - Verse 2:]
I'm speecheless looking at how much you need him
Eyes always tell the truth , but it's your choice if you will read them
And honestly I can't blame you I couldn't leave him 'casue morning texts and dimples
Can just be so damn deceiving, I'm sure he called you "Skye" too, and then you said "What?"
He said, "I'm mesmerized by the clouds through your retina", damn I bet you probably believed it
Thinking it go to him, like it actually had any meaning and let me guess he called you "queen" and maybe "babygirl"
And now he says he loves you more than the entire world, kisses your forehead and says he got to leave
Even though you know he's only stepping out to go and cheat
And I'm pretty sure he hit you too, you probably didn't flip until you saw your eye was blue
He probably said he didn't mean it and that it was your fault
And if you didn't make him mad, he wouldn't have to break your arm
Well, listen the smoothest words come from the dirtiest lips
He's not only one in the sea, so baby go fish
Yeah , so baby go fish, come on now baby go fish
Chorous:
Oh, Yeah, I know he hurt you
(I know, I know) I know he broke your heart girl
But I know he's different now, he's loved me from the start
Yeah, I know he hurt you
Yeah, I know he broke your heart, girl
I swear he's right for me, I swear he's good to me
And if you can't see that then you should just leave me
[Chris O'Bannon - Verse 3:]
Meditated on cannabis medication
I came to the revelation to alter my reputation
Cause niggas 've been so dirty, it just really disturbs me
I just really prefer to be clean and sanitated but never will I embellish on a nigga
Do I look like the nigga to tell on another nigga? He leaving you broken hearted and I'm the one that'll stitch it
Your memory card is full cause you just don't get the picture
But can you picture us?
Miles and miles away on the beach just living up
All these girls but for you I'd give it up
This'll be the one, be the one your fishing for
I never been a low life type, running around the town just to hurt you
I'm never gonna live that life cause I'm a different nigga then the first dude
I don't do this shit for the hoes, I do this shit for shows or even for the rehearsal
I'm tryna see how you feel, to see if this love is real , my love is never commercial yeah
I trusted you with my love, trusted you with my mind
Gave you all of my energy, you wasted my time
I trusted you with my family, you with my friends
I gave you all my beginnings, trusted you with my end
I trusted you with my dreams, trusted you with my heart
I should've known not to trust you, when you tore them apart
And I'm sitting here and I'm wondering why?
What did I say to you, you sugarcoated your lies
Oh why
[Karina Pasian - Chorus:]
Yeah, I know he hurt you
Oh, I know he broke your heart, girl
But I know he's different now, he's loved me from the start
Yeah, I know he hurt you
Yeah, I know he broke your heart, girl
I swear he's right for me yeah, I swear he's good to me
And if you can't see that then you should just leave me
[Skye Townsend - Verse 2:]
I'm speecheless looking at how much you need him
Eyes always tell the truth , but it's your choice if you will read them
And honestly I can't blame you I couldn't leave him 'casue morning texts and dimples
Can just be so damn deceiving, I'm sure he called you "Skye" too, and then you said "What?"
He said, "I'm mesmerized by the clouds through your retina", damn I bet you probably believed it
Thinking it go to him, like it actually had any meaning and let me guess he called you "queen" and maybe "babygirl"
And now he says he loves you more than the entire world, kisses your forehead and says he got to leave
Even though you know he's only stepping out to go and cheat
And I'm pretty sure he hit you too, you probably didn't flip until you saw your eye was blue
He probably said he didn't mean it and that it was your fault
And if you didn't make him mad, he wouldn't have to break your arm
Well, listen the smoothest words come from the dirtiest lips
He's not only one in the sea, so baby go fish
Yeah , so baby go fish, come on now baby go fish
Chorous:
Oh, Yeah, I know he hurt you
(I know, I know) I know he broke your heart girl
But I know he's different now, he's loved me from the start
Yeah, I know he hurt you
Yeah, I know he broke your heart, girl
I swear he's right for me, I swear he's good to me
And if you can't see that then you should just leave me
[Chris O'Bannon - Verse 3:]
Meditated on cannabis medication
I came to the revelation to alter my reputation
Cause niggas 've been so dirty, it just really disturbs me
I just really prefer to be clean and sanitated but never will I embellish on a nigga
Do I look like the nigga to tell on another nigga? He leaving you broken hearted and I'm the one that'll stitch it
Your memory card is full cause you just don't get the picture
But can you picture us?
Miles and miles away on the beach just living up
All these girls but for you I'd give it up
This'll be the one, be the one your fishing for
I never been a low life type, running around the town just to hurt you
I'm never gonna live that life cause I'm a different nigga then the first dude
I don't do this shit for the hoes, I do this shit for shows or even for the rehearsal
I'm tryna see how you feel, to see if this love is real , my love is never commercial yeah
Lyrics submitted by KarinaPDaily
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