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"
Hey (yeah)
Eh (what)
Hey, yeah, yeah
C'mon (c'mon)
(Here we go)
Everyday I see you
With some girlfriend, yeah
You think I could care less
About it (care less about it)
I could keep it secret
Keep playing pretend, oh
But the way I feel you, I doubt it
No more waiting, hesitating
It's guaranteed
I'm gonna make you miss me
You're gonna want to kiss me
I'm gonna make you miss me
All of the time
Boy you want to get with me
You know you can't resist me
I'm gonna make you miss me
'Til you are mine
(Verse two, check it out)
You're about to find out
I get what I want
Once I've made up my mind
(Made up my mind, oh)
Gonna let you see me
Turning it on
That'll make you open your eyes
Your eyes
You'll be pulling
You'll be pulling
Passionately, 'cause
I'm gonna make you miss me
You're gonna want to kiss me
I'm gonna make you miss me
All of the time
'Til you are mine
You've gotta know that something's up
I'll show you how I could love you
I'll turn it on (I'll turn it on)
Then I'll be gone (then I'll be gone)
But only 'til you come through
And feel the way that I do, oh
I'm gonna make you love me baby (yeah, yeah)
I want to hear you call my name (say again, say again)
Not gonna stop until you say it (say it)
All of the(time)
I'm gonna make you love me baby (what, what)
I want to hear you call my name (Keelay)
Not gonna stop until you say it (uh)
All of the time
I'm gonna make you miss me
You're gonna want to kiss me
I'm gonna make you miss me
All of the time
I'm gonna make you miss me
You're gonna want to kiss me
I'm gonna make you miss me
All of the time
Eh (what)
Hey, yeah, yeah
C'mon (c'mon)
(Here we go)
Everyday I see you
With some girlfriend, yeah
You think I could care less
About it (care less about it)
I could keep it secret
Keep playing pretend, oh
But the way I feel you, I doubt it
No more waiting, hesitating
It's guaranteed
I'm gonna make you miss me
You're gonna want to kiss me
I'm gonna make you miss me
All of the time
Boy you want to get with me
You know you can't resist me
I'm gonna make you miss me
'Til you are mine
(Verse two, check it out)
You're about to find out
I get what I want
Once I've made up my mind
(Made up my mind, oh)
Gonna let you see me
Turning it on
That'll make you open your eyes
Your eyes
You'll be pulling
You'll be pulling
Passionately, 'cause
I'm gonna make you miss me
You're gonna want to kiss me
I'm gonna make you miss me
All of the time
'Til you are mine
You've gotta know that something's up
I'll show you how I could love you
I'll turn it on (I'll turn it on)
Then I'll be gone (then I'll be gone)
But only 'til you come through
And feel the way that I do, oh
I'm gonna make you love me baby (yeah, yeah)
I want to hear you call my name (say again, say again)
Not gonna stop until you say it (say it)
All of the(time)
I'm gonna make you love me baby (what, what)
I want to hear you call my name (Keelay)
Not gonna stop until you say it (uh)
All of the time
I'm gonna make you miss me
You're gonna want to kiss me
I'm gonna make you miss me
All of the time
I'm gonna make you miss me
You're gonna want to kiss me
I'm gonna make you miss me
All of the time
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