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"
Yeah
Yeah yeah
I was looking for something
On the crime scene where you're in too deep
I found a note with his number
It's just another clue (that leads to you)
I got a little suspicious
I got a feeling that you ain't true to me
I should've known better
Than to buy your lie (your sweet disguise)
Yeah
You can fool anyone but I've got eyes to see
that you're not for me babe
No no, uh uh
Things will never be the same again with you
No no, uh uh
Now I know what it's comin' to
No no, uh uh
'cause' if you think that it's the way
That love should be
Let me tell you it's not for me
No no
I don't want to be part of your screenplay
Just tell me
Did you rehearse on me?
Now give me the story
On baby who's to blame (maybe I am)
Caught in the middle
And I'm tired of your games of hide and seek
I'm getting a feeling
That it's time for me to leave
You can fool anyone but I've got eyes to see
That you're not for me babe
No no, uh uh
Things will never be the same again with you
No no, uh uh
Now I know what it's comin' to
No no, uh uh
'cause' if you think that it's the way
That love should be
Let me tell you it's not for me
Yeah (yeah)
I said no no (no way)
No no, no no (whoa)
I had enough of your talk, your games
And you won't go away
Justify my reasons to say
(Say, reasons to say)
No no, uh uh
Things will never be the same again with you
No no, uh uh
Now I know what it's comin' to
No no, uh uh
'cause' if you think that it's the way
That love should be
Let me tell you it's not for me
No no, uh uh
Things will never be the same again with you
No no, uh uh
Now I know what it's comin' to
No no, uh uh
'cause' if you think that it's the way
That love should be
Let me tell you it's not for me
Yeah yeah
I was looking for something
On the crime scene where you're in too deep
I found a note with his number
It's just another clue (that leads to you)
I got a little suspicious
I got a feeling that you ain't true to me
I should've known better
Than to buy your lie (your sweet disguise)
Yeah
You can fool anyone but I've got eyes to see
that you're not for me babe
No no, uh uh
Things will never be the same again with you
No no, uh uh
Now I know what it's comin' to
No no, uh uh
'cause' if you think that it's the way
That love should be
Let me tell you it's not for me
No no
I don't want to be part of your screenplay
Just tell me
Did you rehearse on me?
Now give me the story
On baby who's to blame (maybe I am)
Caught in the middle
And I'm tired of your games of hide and seek
I'm getting a feeling
That it's time for me to leave
You can fool anyone but I've got eyes to see
That you're not for me babe
No no, uh uh
Things will never be the same again with you
No no, uh uh
Now I know what it's comin' to
No no, uh uh
'cause' if you think that it's the way
That love should be
Let me tell you it's not for me
Yeah (yeah)
I said no no (no way)
No no, no no (whoa)
I had enough of your talk, your games
And you won't go away
Justify my reasons to say
(Say, reasons to say)
No no, uh uh
Things will never be the same again with you
No no, uh uh
Now I know what it's comin' to
No no, uh uh
'cause' if you think that it's the way
That love should be
Let me tell you it's not for me
No no, uh uh
Things will never be the same again with you
No no, uh uh
Now I know what it's comin' to
No no, uh uh
'cause' if you think that it's the way
That love should be
Let me tell you it's not for me
Lyrics submitted by cutecreativeangel
Not for Me Lyrics as written by Jacob Schulze Kristian Lundin
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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i added these lyrics... i love the backstreet boys and i love all of their songs xxxxxxxxx keeping the backstreet boys pride alive
another awesome BSB hit. I just loved Black&Blue. I hope they make their next one just as good.
no no ah ah! Great song! I love it! Let's dance... :D
yeah - it totally kicks ass!!! :)
i love both the lyrics and the music.. but the music has a certain cHarm that just makes me want to listen to it constantly!!
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