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"
Girl close your eyes,
Got a surprise,
Don't run and hide,
Le'me take you on a ride.
First we'll go to Cleveland,
Where kissin' and huggin'
Is what we'll do.
Next we'll go to Miami
And make it hot and steamy
Please believe me
Next we'll go to New York
And with your thighs
I'll treat you like a queen
Next we'll go to Chicago
Where bumpin' and grindin'
Is no joke
Baby, I'm jack
You can be Jill
I want to carry you up my hill
We don't have to run and hide
To make love
We can go to any city
That you think of
Baby, I'm Jack
You can be Jill
I want to carry you up my hill
We don't have to run and hide
To make love
We can go to any city
That you think of
Next we'll go to Atlanta
In room 112
I'll make your body melt
Next we'll go to DC
I'll do it deeply
But take it easy
Next (ah lemme see)
We'll go to Huston
There's no illusion
What we'll be doin'
Next we'll go to Philly
While I'm feelin' you
I know your feelin' me
[Chorus]
Baby, I'm jack
You can be Jill
I want to carry you up my hill
We don't have to run and hide
To make love
We can go to any city
That you think of
That you think of
Oh, girl
You and me
Me and you
All alone
In a room
You will see
A lot of things
You never seen
Oh, babe
Yes, I'll have you tremblin'
Baby, it should be sin
What I'll do to you
It's so true
If I had it my way
We'll make love
Till the day
Next fight LA
[Chorus: x2]
It's the end of the song
So everybody that's freaky
Get yer freak on
Got a surprise,
Don't run and hide,
Le'me take you on a ride.
First we'll go to Cleveland,
Where kissin' and huggin'
Is what we'll do.
Next we'll go to Miami
And make it hot and steamy
Please believe me
Next we'll go to New York
And with your thighs
I'll treat you like a queen
Next we'll go to Chicago
Where bumpin' and grindin'
Is no joke
Baby, I'm jack
You can be Jill
I want to carry you up my hill
We don't have to run and hide
To make love
We can go to any city
That you think of
Baby, I'm Jack
You can be Jill
I want to carry you up my hill
We don't have to run and hide
To make love
We can go to any city
That you think of
Next we'll go to Atlanta
In room 112
I'll make your body melt
Next we'll go to DC
I'll do it deeply
But take it easy
Next (ah lemme see)
We'll go to Huston
There's no illusion
What we'll be doin'
Next we'll go to Philly
While I'm feelin' you
I know your feelin' me
[Chorus]
Baby, I'm jack
You can be Jill
I want to carry you up my hill
We don't have to run and hide
To make love
We can go to any city
That you think of
That you think of
Oh, girl
You and me
Me and you
All alone
In a room
You will see
A lot of things
You never seen
Oh, babe
Yes, I'll have you tremblin'
Baby, it should be sin
What I'll do to you
It's so true
If I had it my way
We'll make love
Till the day
Next fight LA
[Chorus: x2]
It's the end of the song
So everybody that's freaky
Get yer freak on
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