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"
He wants to know
What it feels like to mess around, mess around
She wants to know
What it feels like to settle down, settle down
He's got the money but, oh it's not enough
He wants to pounce, he wants to pounce
Never knowing if he's given you up
Or if you're just not good enough
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
She wants to know why he's not home
Oh I bet money, money, money I bet
He's at the Sexotheque
He never answers the phone
Oh I bet money, money, money I bet
He's at the Sexotheque
He wants to go
Where the red light shines so bright, shines so bright
He wants to know
Why he feels so cold inside, cold inside
He turns and looks around, he doesn't hear a sound
No ones around, no ones around
Never knowing if he's given you up
Or if you're just not good enough
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
She wants to know why he's not home
Oh I bet money, money, money I bet
He's at the Sexotheque
He never answers the phone
Oh I bet money, money, money I bet
He's at the Sexotheque
She wants to know why he's not home
Oh I bet money, money, money I bet
He's at the Sexotheque
He never answers the phone
Oh I bet money, money, money I bet
He's at the Sexotheque
She wants to know why he's not home
Oh I bet money, money, money I bet
He's at the Sexotheque
He never answers the phone
Oh I bet money, money, money I bet
He's at the Sexotheque
He never answers the phone
Oh I bet money, money, money I bet
He's at the Sexotheque
(I bet oh I bet he's at the Sexotheque, he's at the Sexotheque)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
He's at the Sexotheque
What it feels like to mess around, mess around
She wants to know
What it feels like to settle down, settle down
He's got the money but, oh it's not enough
He wants to pounce, he wants to pounce
Never knowing if he's given you up
Or if you're just not good enough
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
She wants to know why he's not home
Oh I bet money, money, money I bet
He's at the Sexotheque
He never answers the phone
Oh I bet money, money, money I bet
He's at the Sexotheque
He wants to go
Where the red light shines so bright, shines so bright
He wants to know
Why he feels so cold inside, cold inside
He turns and looks around, he doesn't hear a sound
No ones around, no ones around
Never knowing if he's given you up
Or if you're just not good enough
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
She wants to know why he's not home
Oh I bet money, money, money I bet
He's at the Sexotheque
He never answers the phone
Oh I bet money, money, money I bet
He's at the Sexotheque
She wants to know why he's not home
Oh I bet money, money, money I bet
He's at the Sexotheque
He never answers the phone
Oh I bet money, money, money I bet
He's at the Sexotheque
She wants to know why he's not home
Oh I bet money, money, money I bet
He's at the Sexotheque
He never answers the phone
Oh I bet money, money, money I bet
He's at the Sexotheque
He never answers the phone
Oh I bet money, money, money I bet
He's at the Sexotheque
(I bet oh I bet he's at the Sexotheque, he's at the Sexotheque)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
He's at the Sexotheque
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