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"
I woke up next to you in bed
Already thinking when can I see you again
I swear I won't come on so strong
I can be gone when you want to be gone
I can come when you want me to come
I don't want to stand here next to you
And pretend there's nothing I don't want to do
When I just want to grab you by the skull
Rebecca kiss me, but let's not fall in love
I don't want to stand here next to you
And pretend there's nothing I don' t want to do
When l just want to grab you by the skull
Rebecca kiss me, but let's not fall in love
If I had known the address
I would have taken a cab
Instead, I had to run just to make it
In time to leave again
You don't need to forgive to move on
Maybe just a good couple casual fucks
(Maybe just a good couple casual fucks)
I don't want to stand here next to you
And pretend there's nothing I don' t want to do
When l just want to grab you by the skull
Rebecca kiss me, but let's not fall in love
I don't want to stand here next to you
And pretend there's nothing I don' t want to do
When l just want to grab you by the skull
Rebecca kiss me, but let's not fall in love
Want you to hit me like a bus
And then I'll get right the fuck back up
Step out in front of the next coming one
I don't care if you can't stay
I know it never really works that way
We don't have to fall in love
We can just have fun
No I don't want to fall in love with you
Already thinking when can I see you again
I swear I won't come on so strong
I can be gone when you want to be gone
I can come when you want me to come
I don't want to stand here next to you
And pretend there's nothing I don't want to do
When I just want to grab you by the skull
Rebecca kiss me, but let's not fall in love
I don't want to stand here next to you
And pretend there's nothing I don' t want to do
When l just want to grab you by the skull
Rebecca kiss me, but let's not fall in love
If I had known the address
I would have taken a cab
Instead, I had to run just to make it
In time to leave again
You don't need to forgive to move on
Maybe just a good couple casual fucks
(Maybe just a good couple casual fucks)
I don't want to stand here next to you
And pretend there's nothing I don' t want to do
When l just want to grab you by the skull
Rebecca kiss me, but let's not fall in love
I don't want to stand here next to you
And pretend there's nothing I don' t want to do
When l just want to grab you by the skull
Rebecca kiss me, but let's not fall in love
Want you to hit me like a bus
And then I'll get right the fuck back up
Step out in front of the next coming one
I don't care if you can't stay
I know it never really works that way
We don't have to fall in love
We can just have fun
No I don't want to fall in love with you
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