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"
Love it when you call me baby
When you lightin' up my phone
Makes me want you like I'm crazy
I'm running home, I'm running home
Just to hear your heart beat
You're so sweet like honeycomb
Got to have you near me
'Cause you're the best I've ever known
You make me get up, get up like this is my song
I'ma get up, get up, yeah, yeah
You got me humming, humming to the beat of the drum
To the rhythm, rhythm, yeah, yeah
Your loving takes me higher
You set my heart on fire
When you touch my body got me singing like Mariah
There is no denying, your kisses keep me flying
When you touch by body got me singing like Mariah
Singing like Mariah
Your name is written on my lips
You're the only one for me
Every single little kiss
Is like a dream, is like a dream
I don't need to make a wish
'Cause all I want is you
When you do it like this
I just lose my cool
You make me get up, get up like this is my song
I'ma get up, get up, yeah, yeah
You got me humming, humming to the beat of the drum
To the rhythm, rhythm, yeah, yeah
Your loving takes me higher
You set my heart on fire
When you touch my body got me singing like Mariah
There is no denying, your kisses keep me flying
When you touch by body got me singing like Mariah
Singing like Mariah
Uh, T-Raw on fire
If you're looking for that fly love, I'm your number one supplier
Wanna try it, buy it
You wanna ride with the hottest in the city, set your heart on fire
Yeah I do it it, I do it, do it, ain't nothin' to it
If you wit it, I know she wit it, so come and do it
Got that pretty, that pretty pretty
You're so sidity, like Aaliyah, Mariah Carey, you stay winning
Top down ridin', I'm Big Papa
She love when I fly it, Lambo pilot
Hop inside it, sit on my lap, angel body
I'm a King, need a Goddess, gotta love it
Your loving takes me higher
You set my heart on fire
When you touch my body got me singing like Mariah
There is no denying, your kisses keep me flying
When you touch by body got me singing like Mariah
Singing like Mariah
When you lightin' up my phone
Makes me want you like I'm crazy
I'm running home, I'm running home
Just to hear your heart beat
You're so sweet like honeycomb
Got to have you near me
'Cause you're the best I've ever known
You make me get up, get up like this is my song
I'ma get up, get up, yeah, yeah
You got me humming, humming to the beat of the drum
To the rhythm, rhythm, yeah, yeah
Your loving takes me higher
You set my heart on fire
When you touch my body got me singing like Mariah
There is no denying, your kisses keep me flying
When you touch by body got me singing like Mariah
Singing like Mariah
Your name is written on my lips
You're the only one for me
Every single little kiss
Is like a dream, is like a dream
I don't need to make a wish
'Cause all I want is you
When you do it like this
I just lose my cool
You make me get up, get up like this is my song
I'ma get up, get up, yeah, yeah
You got me humming, humming to the beat of the drum
To the rhythm, rhythm, yeah, yeah
Your loving takes me higher
You set my heart on fire
When you touch my body got me singing like Mariah
There is no denying, your kisses keep me flying
When you touch by body got me singing like Mariah
Singing like Mariah
Uh, T-Raw on fire
If you're looking for that fly love, I'm your number one supplier
Wanna try it, buy it
You wanna ride with the hottest in the city, set your heart on fire
Yeah I do it it, I do it, do it, ain't nothin' to it
If you wit it, I know she wit it, so come and do it
Got that pretty, that pretty pretty
You're so sidity, like Aaliyah, Mariah Carey, you stay winning
Top down ridin', I'm Big Papa
She love when I fly it, Lambo pilot
Hop inside it, sit on my lap, angel body
I'm a King, need a Goddess, gotta love it
Your loving takes me higher
You set my heart on fire
When you touch my body got me singing like Mariah
There is no denying, your kisses keep me flying
When you touch by body got me singing like Mariah
Singing like Mariah
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