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"
Sometime I wonder why you do these things to me
Sometime I worry girl that you ain't in love with me
Sometime I stay out late, yeah I'm having fun
Yes, I guess you know by now that you ain't the only one
Yeah and baby, ooh sweet things that you promised me yeah
They seemed to go up in smoke
Yeah, vanish like a dream, baby
I wonder why you do these things to me
'Cause I'm worried
Yeah I just can't seem to find my way, baby
Ooh, the nights I spent just waiting on the sun
Just like your burned out cigarette
You threw away my love
Why did you do that babe?
I wonder why, why you do these things to me
Oh I'm worried
Lord, I'll find out anyway
Sure going to find myself a girl someday
'Till then I'm worried
Yeah, I just can't seem to find my way
Yeah, I'm a hard working man
When did I ever do you wrong?
Yeah, I get all my money baby
Yeah I bring it, bring it all home
Yeah, I'm telling the truth, yeah
Sweet things, the sweet things oh that you promised me
Well I'm worried, I just can't seem to find my way, baby
I I'm worried about you, yeah
I'm worried about you, yeah
Tell you something now
I'm worried 'bout you, oh yeah
I'm worried 'bout you, child oh yeah
I'm worried 'bout you, woman oh yeah
I'm worried 'bout you, oh yeah
I'm worried 'bout you, oh yeah
Yeah, I'm worried
Lord, I'll find out anyway
Sure as hell I'm going to find that girl someday
'Till then I'm worried
Lord, I just can't seem to find my way
Sometime I worry girl that you ain't in love with me
Sometime I stay out late, yeah I'm having fun
Yes, I guess you know by now that you ain't the only one
Yeah and baby, ooh sweet things that you promised me yeah
They seemed to go up in smoke
Yeah, vanish like a dream, baby
I wonder why you do these things to me
'Cause I'm worried
Yeah I just can't seem to find my way, baby
Ooh, the nights I spent just waiting on the sun
Just like your burned out cigarette
You threw away my love
Why did you do that babe?
I wonder why, why you do these things to me
Oh I'm worried
Lord, I'll find out anyway
Sure going to find myself a girl someday
'Till then I'm worried
Yeah, I just can't seem to find my way
Yeah, I'm a hard working man
When did I ever do you wrong?
Yeah, I get all my money baby
Yeah I bring it, bring it all home
Yeah, I'm telling the truth, yeah
Sweet things, the sweet things oh that you promised me
Well I'm worried, I just can't seem to find my way, baby
I I'm worried about you, yeah
I'm worried about you, yeah
Tell you something now
I'm worried 'bout you, oh yeah
I'm worried 'bout you, child oh yeah
I'm worried 'bout you, woman oh yeah
I'm worried 'bout you, oh yeah
I'm worried 'bout you, oh yeah
Yeah, I'm worried
Lord, I'll find out anyway
Sure as hell I'm going to find that girl someday
'Till then I'm worried
Lord, I just can't seem to find my way
Lyrics submitted by spliphstar
Worried About You Lyrics as written by Keith Richards Mick Jagger
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