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"
Let me try on your dress, it turns me on when we're a mess
Something's kickin' in, I smell the summer on your skin
I'm sick of being down, we're coming up, so let's go out
We won't live forever now, so let's make the most of it somehow
Your body is loose and you're going down
Your body is loose, you're going down
Your body is loose and you're going down, today
I don't care where you're from, whatever planet you think you're on
'cause you're my space cadet, I'll go anywhere with you, yeah
Maybe you're still lonely, but I love you, you're my best friend
We look like sister and brother, according to all our friends
Your body is loose and you're going down
Your body is loose, you're going down
Your body is loose and you're going down, today
Your body is loose and you're going down
Your body is loose, yeah, you're going down
Your body is loose and you're going down, today
There's no guns firing now, big yellow cranes hold up the clouds
And this season's changed me, I've fallen into a different skin
We make quite a pair and we look stupid and we don't care
We need no explanation, just keep on taking the happy pills
Your body is loose and you're going down
Your body is loose, yeah, you're going down
Your body is loose and you're going down, today
Your body is loose and you're going down
Your body is loose, yeah, you're going down
Your body is loose and you're going down, today
Let me try on your dress
Something's kickin' in, I smell the summer on your skin
I'm sick of being down, we're coming up, so let's go out
We won't live forever now, so let's make the most of it somehow
Your body is loose and you're going down
Your body is loose, you're going down
Your body is loose and you're going down, today
I don't care where you're from, whatever planet you think you're on
'cause you're my space cadet, I'll go anywhere with you, yeah
Maybe you're still lonely, but I love you, you're my best friend
We look like sister and brother, according to all our friends
Your body is loose and you're going down
Your body is loose, you're going down
Your body is loose and you're going down, today
Your body is loose and you're going down
Your body is loose, yeah, you're going down
Your body is loose and you're going down, today
There's no guns firing now, big yellow cranes hold up the clouds
And this season's changed me, I've fallen into a different skin
We make quite a pair and we look stupid and we don't care
We need no explanation, just keep on taking the happy pills
Your body is loose and you're going down
Your body is loose, yeah, you're going down
Your body is loose and you're going down, today
Your body is loose and you're going down
Your body is loose, yeah, you're going down
Your body is loose and you're going down, today
Let me try on your dress
Lyrics submitted by one hit wonder
Loose Lyrics as written by Andrew Cairns
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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