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"
Well, it's 3 AM, I'm out here riding again
Through the wicked winding streets of my world
I make a wrong turn, brake it now, I'm too far gone
I got a siren on my tail
And that ain't the fine I'm looking for
I see a stairway so I follow it down
Into the belly of a whale
Where my secrets echo all around
You know me now but to do better than that
You've got to follow me
Boy, I'm trying to show you where I'm at
Hey pretty
Don't you wanna take a ride with me?
Through my world
Hey pretty
Don't you wanna kick and slide?
Through my world
Well, I've got a mind full of wicked designs
I've got a non-stop hole in my head imagination
I'm in a building that has two thousand floors
And when they all fall down
I think you know it's you they're fallin' for
I can't forget I am a soul architect
I built the shadows here
I built the growl in the voice, I fear
You add it up, but to do better than that
You've got to follow me
Boy, I'm trying to show you where I'm at
Hey pretty
Don't you wanna take a ride with me?
Through my world
Hey pretty
Don't you wanna kick and slide
Through my world
Hey pretty
My pretty baby
Rocket through my world (see through my world)
Hey pretty (hey pretty)
My pretty baby
Rocket through my world (my world)
Hey now
Can't you feel me longing?
(D-D-Do you get the gist of the song now?)
Hey now
Can't you feel me?
(Feel me now)
Hey pretty (hey pretty, hey pretty)
(My pretty baby)
Hey pretty baby
Don't you want to take a ride with me?
Don't you want to take a ride with me?
(My baby)
Don't you wanna take a ride with me?
(My baby)
My pretty baby
(Don't you wanna)
Rocket through my world (my world)
Don't you wanna take a ride with me? (my baby)
Don't you wanna (my baby)
Don't you wanna take a ride with me?
Do you get the gist of the song now?
Don't you wanna take a ride with me?
Do you get the gist of the song now?
My pretty baby
Through the wicked winding streets of my world
I make a wrong turn, brake it now, I'm too far gone
I got a siren on my tail
And that ain't the fine I'm looking for
I see a stairway so I follow it down
Into the belly of a whale
Where my secrets echo all around
You know me now but to do better than that
You've got to follow me
Boy, I'm trying to show you where I'm at
Hey pretty
Don't you wanna take a ride with me?
Through my world
Hey pretty
Don't you wanna kick and slide?
Through my world
Well, I've got a mind full of wicked designs
I've got a non-stop hole in my head imagination
I'm in a building that has two thousand floors
And when they all fall down
I think you know it's you they're fallin' for
I can't forget I am a soul architect
I built the shadows here
I built the growl in the voice, I fear
You add it up, but to do better than that
You've got to follow me
Boy, I'm trying to show you where I'm at
Hey pretty
Don't you wanna take a ride with me?
Through my world
Hey pretty
Don't you wanna kick and slide
Through my world
Hey pretty
My pretty baby
Rocket through my world (see through my world)
Hey pretty (hey pretty)
My pretty baby
Rocket through my world (my world)
Hey now
Can't you feel me longing?
(D-D-Do you get the gist of the song now?)
Hey now
Can't you feel me?
(Feel me now)
Hey pretty (hey pretty, hey pretty)
(My pretty baby)
Hey pretty baby
Don't you want to take a ride with me?
Don't you want to take a ride with me?
(My baby)
Don't you wanna take a ride with me?
(My baby)
My pretty baby
(Don't you wanna)
Rocket through my world (my world)
Don't you wanna take a ride with me? (my baby)
Don't you wanna (my baby)
Don't you wanna take a ride with me?
Do you get the gist of the song now?
Don't you wanna take a ride with me?
Do you get the gist of the song now?
My pretty baby
Lyrics submitted by alkalinegirl
Hey Pretty Lyrics as written by Mathew Wilder Annie Danielewski
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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