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"
Now what am I supposed to do
When I want you in my world
How can I want you for myself
When I'm already someones girl?
Now what am I supposed to do
When I want you in my world
How can I want you for myself
When I'm already someones girl?
First time that I saw you boy
It was a warm and sunny day
All I know is I wanted you
I really hoped you looked my way
When you smiled at me
So warm and sweet
I could not stay
You make me feel like a itty-bitty girl
What do you do to me
Now what am I supposed to do
When I want you in my world
How can I want you for myself
When I'm already someones girl?
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
No hard feelings
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
I'm gonna be there
Your energy, feels so damn good to me
It picks me up don't want to come down
You got me spinning all around
Yeah
You need to know
I've got that somebody
You're beautiful
But it ain't that kind-a party nowww
Now what am I supposed to do
When I want you in my world
How can I want you for myself
When I'm already someones girl?
Now what am I supposed to do
When I want you in my world
How can I want you for myself
When I'm already someones girl?
Well I guess I'll see you next lifetime
Baby we'll be butterflies
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
That sounds so divine
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
I guess I will now
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
Wait, wait a little while
See it ain't nothing wrong with dreaming
Boy don't get me wrong
'Cause every time (every time) I see you (every single time)
I know just how strong (every single time)
That my love is for my baby
But emotions just don't lie
Well I know I'm a lot of woman
But not enough to divide the pie
Now what am I supposed to do
When I want you in my world
How can I want you for myself
When I'm already someones girl?
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
You know I want to stay around
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
I'm so confused now
Now what am I supposed to do
When I want you in my world
How can I want you for myself
When I'm already someones girl?
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
Already
I'm going to be there
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
I'm going to look for you
Now what am I supposed to do
When I want you in my world
How can I want you for myself
When I'm already someones girl?
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
Oh
Oh baby
I'm gonna be there
I'm gonna be there
When I want you in my world
How can I want you for myself
When I'm already someones girl?
Now what am I supposed to do
When I want you in my world
How can I want you for myself
When I'm already someones girl?
First time that I saw you boy
It was a warm and sunny day
All I know is I wanted you
I really hoped you looked my way
When you smiled at me
So warm and sweet
I could not stay
You make me feel like a itty-bitty girl
What do you do to me
Now what am I supposed to do
When I want you in my world
How can I want you for myself
When I'm already someones girl?
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
No hard feelings
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
I'm gonna be there
Your energy, feels so damn good to me
It picks me up don't want to come down
You got me spinning all around
Yeah
You need to know
I've got that somebody
You're beautiful
But it ain't that kind-a party nowww
Now what am I supposed to do
When I want you in my world
How can I want you for myself
When I'm already someones girl?
Now what am I supposed to do
When I want you in my world
How can I want you for myself
When I'm already someones girl?
Well I guess I'll see you next lifetime
Baby we'll be butterflies
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
That sounds so divine
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
I guess I will now
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
Wait, wait a little while
See it ain't nothing wrong with dreaming
Boy don't get me wrong
'Cause every time (every time) I see you (every single time)
I know just how strong (every single time)
That my love is for my baby
But emotions just don't lie
Well I know I'm a lot of woman
But not enough to divide the pie
Now what am I supposed to do
When I want you in my world
How can I want you for myself
When I'm already someones girl?
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
You know I want to stay around
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
I'm so confused now
Now what am I supposed to do
When I want you in my world
How can I want you for myself
When I'm already someones girl?
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
Already
I'm going to be there
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
I'm going to look for you
Now what am I supposed to do
When I want you in my world
How can I want you for myself
When I'm already someones girl?
I guess I'll see you next lifetime
Oh
Oh baby
I'm gonna be there
I'm gonna be there
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This song is so true. It is so hard to be in a relationship with someone but someone else you care about a lot loves you. You just want to hold on to them and see them next lifetime
This song means that even though you may not be able to have the one you want in this lifetime, you may be able to have them next lifetime.
I don't think that it's imaging... I think it's Energy.
But damn, this song is my life right now.
I can relate to this. she saying that she's in a relationship with someone, but she has feelings for someone else. She knows she cant be with that person so she says maybe they'll be together next lifetime because they cant be together in this life time.
ShanteC15, I feel your interpretation of this song, as I've been in this position before... I've been in an 'unhappy' relationship and wishing I was with someone else who I felt could make me happier. <br /> <br /> In talking about seeing that person in the next lifetime, this is a reference to reincarnation to me. <br /> <br /> I like the fact that although she may be feeling the other person, she is not willing to cheat on her partner to be with the other person. She acknowledge the positive energy that the other person possesses, but do not want to be immoral by stepping outside of her current relationship.
Life/Love is like a bus, you wait and wait and then two amazing people come into your life, and you have to chose.
this song is kind of sad in a way...she's already committed to someone, but she has someone amazing in her life that loves her. She feels like she's mean to be with this person...& if their love is strong enough they will be together someday, who knows when but they will.
I agree with all of the above. And it also sounds like Erykha has a fairly strong belief in reincarnation. ie. maybe next life we'll be butterflies
In the short dialogue before the song (about 0:21) does the man really say: "I see myself as being the chief rabbi", and the woman reply: "That's really beautiful"?!