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"
No way of controlling my body; Mysterious
You touch me that way, my souls of above
When we say goodbye
There's now turning back for love
Now I think it's time to make the floor burn!
No way of controlling my body; Mysterious
You touch me that way, my souls of above
When we say goodbye
There's now turning back for love
Can't you see now what I am saying
The beat is rough and I ain't playing
Mysterious things we like to know
Secret things that you never showed
A vision of something you're driving for
You gave me the key and I opened the door
There's something between us, you and me
'Cause your love is like a unsolved mystery
A mystery is what you are to me
You keep me guessing, I feel like stressing
All the time yeah you blow my mind
I don't know what I am searching for
Everytime you're around, you're asking for more
I'm interested to know what you are all about
You're the only on without a doubt
You've got me acting so delirious
Everything about you girl; Mysterious
Something you want to figure out but you don't know how? Mysterious
You move mysterious
You look mysterious
You are mysterious
So mysterious
No way of controlling my body; Mysterious
You touch me that way, my souls of above
When we say goodbye
There's now turning back for
No way of controlling my body; Mysterious
You touch me that way, my souls of above
When we say goodbye
There's now turning back for
Love
You touch me that way, my souls of above
When we say goodbye
There's now turning back for love
Now I think it's time to make the floor burn!
No way of controlling my body; Mysterious
You touch me that way, my souls of above
When we say goodbye
There's now turning back for love
Can't you see now what I am saying
The beat is rough and I ain't playing
Mysterious things we like to know
Secret things that you never showed
A vision of something you're driving for
You gave me the key and I opened the door
There's something between us, you and me
'Cause your love is like a unsolved mystery
A mystery is what you are to me
You keep me guessing, I feel like stressing
All the time yeah you blow my mind
I don't know what I am searching for
Everytime you're around, you're asking for more
I'm interested to know what you are all about
You're the only on without a doubt
You've got me acting so delirious
Everything about you girl; Mysterious
Something you want to figure out but you don't know how? Mysterious
You move mysterious
You look mysterious
You are mysterious
So mysterious
No way of controlling my body; Mysterious
You touch me that way, my souls of above
When we say goodbye
There's now turning back for
No way of controlling my body; Mysterious
You touch me that way, my souls of above
When we say goodbye
There's now turning back for
Love
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