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"
Ten thousand stories sent
Two lovers disguise
You've seen the future now
A love that is blind
Makes you want to kiss and not tell
Makes you want to kiss and not tell
You've dialed that number now
So where's the surprise
Temptations calling you
A secret reply
Makes you want to kiss and not tell
Makes you want to kiss and not tell
All along I've had feelings I can't help
Makes me want to kiss and not tell
You say in evidence
They won't take you alive
But when the sun goes down
You cover your lies
Makes you want to kiss and not tell
Makes you want to kiss and not tell
You like the elegance
But it's weighing you down
And sometimes you just need a night on the town, oh
Makes you want to kiss and not tell
Makes you want to kiss and not tell
All along I've had feelings I can't help
Makes me want to kiss and not
And all I want is to come right out of my shell
Makes me want to kiss and not tell
All along I've had feelings I can't help
Makes me want to kiss and not
And all I want is to come right out of my shell
Makes you want to kiss and not tell
All along I
Feelings I can't
Feelings I can't help
All I want is
To come right out my
Come right out my shell
All along I
Feelings I can't
Feelings I can't help
All I want is
To come right out my
To come right out my shell (Makes me want to kiss)
All along I
Feelings I can't
Feelings I can't help (Makes me want to kiss)
All I want is
To come right out my
To come right out my shell (Makes me want to kiss)
Two lovers disguise
You've seen the future now
A love that is blind
Makes you want to kiss and not tell
Makes you want to kiss and not tell
You've dialed that number now
So where's the surprise
Temptations calling you
A secret reply
Makes you want to kiss and not tell
Makes you want to kiss and not tell
All along I've had feelings I can't help
Makes me want to kiss and not tell
You say in evidence
They won't take you alive
But when the sun goes down
You cover your lies
Makes you want to kiss and not tell
Makes you want to kiss and not tell
You like the elegance
But it's weighing you down
And sometimes you just need a night on the town, oh
Makes you want to kiss and not tell
Makes you want to kiss and not tell
All along I've had feelings I can't help
Makes me want to kiss and not
And all I want is to come right out of my shell
Makes me want to kiss and not tell
All along I've had feelings I can't help
Makes me want to kiss and not
And all I want is to come right out of my shell
Makes you want to kiss and not tell
All along I
Feelings I can't
Feelings I can't help
All I want is
To come right out my
Come right out my shell
All along I
Feelings I can't
Feelings I can't help
All I want is
To come right out my
To come right out my shell (Makes me want to kiss)
All along I
Feelings I can't
Feelings I can't help (Makes me want to kiss)
All I want is
To come right out my
To come right out my shell (Makes me want to kiss)
Lyrics submitted by amdarkholme
Kiss and Not Tell Lyrics as written by Ben Langmaid Elly Jackson
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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