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"
Baby baby baby, yeah
Western Union man
Send me a telegraph
My love has taken a tumble
Ooh, but I'm still standing
You're such a natural, sing
Yes, that's what you are
Say, I wouldn't steer you wrong now baby
I wouldn't steer you wrong
It's just that sweet little mystery
That makes me try, try, try, try
It makes me try, sweet little mystery
That makes me try, try, try, try
Shake a bitty
Didn't I come insisting a sight of wonder?
Didn't I come resisting a higher decision?
Didn't I come insisting a sight of wonder?
To your life
Say, I wouldn't steer you wrong now baby
I wouldn't steer you wrong
But it's just that sweet little mystery
That makes me try, try, try, try
It's just that sweet little mystery
That makes me try, try, try, try
Sweet little mystery
That makes me try, try, try, try
It makes me try, sweet little mystery
That makes me try
It makes me try, try, try, try
And oh, just think of the magic, ooh-ooh
Don't think it is tragic, hey hey hey
Just think of the magic
Come on listen
My love has taken a tumble, woh woh
My love has taken a tumble
Come on listen, my love has taken a tumble
But I'm still standing
And if only, only, only, only, only
Only love me like you used to do
Just that sweet little mystery
That makes me try, try try try
Come on listen, hey
Try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try
Try, try, try, try, try, try
(C'mon, c'mon) love has taken a tumble
My love has taken a tumble
My love has taken a tumble
Western Union man
Send me a telegraph
My love has taken a tumble
Ooh, but I'm still standing
You're such a natural, sing
Yes, that's what you are
Say, I wouldn't steer you wrong now baby
I wouldn't steer you wrong
It's just that sweet little mystery
That makes me try, try, try, try
It makes me try, sweet little mystery
That makes me try, try, try, try
Shake a bitty
Didn't I come insisting a sight of wonder?
Didn't I come resisting a higher decision?
Didn't I come insisting a sight of wonder?
To your life
Say, I wouldn't steer you wrong now baby
I wouldn't steer you wrong
But it's just that sweet little mystery
That makes me try, try, try, try
It's just that sweet little mystery
That makes me try, try, try, try
Sweet little mystery
That makes me try, try, try, try
It makes me try, sweet little mystery
That makes me try
It makes me try, try, try, try
And oh, just think of the magic, ooh-ooh
Don't think it is tragic, hey hey hey
Just think of the magic
Come on listen
My love has taken a tumble, woh woh
My love has taken a tumble
Come on listen, my love has taken a tumble
But I'm still standing
And if only, only, only, only, only
Only love me like you used to do
Just that sweet little mystery
That makes me try, try try try
Come on listen, hey
Try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try
Try, try, try, try, try, try
(C'mon, c'mon) love has taken a tumble
My love has taken a tumble
My love has taken a tumble
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