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"
I know you feel it
This is a serious chemistry
You don't have to believe it
But the truth will set you free
You're flashing like white neon
in my mind and it's alright
(CHORUS)
I must be spoiled and rotten
cause no one else will ever do
Don't you forget I get what I want
All I want is you
Bring your strawberry car
Come to the cabaret in my mind
The camera's rolling
The water feels fine
You know I'm half crazy for you
and there's nothing you can do
CHORUS
Red rubies daffodils
Gentle breezes and windowsills
Starlight silver radiation
inside my mental television
An acid metamorphosis
An altered state of consciousness
Candy mansions of the soul
No compromises turn to gold
CHORUS
This is a serious chemistry
You don't have to believe it
But the truth will set you free
You're flashing like white neon
in my mind and it's alright
(CHORUS)
I must be spoiled and rotten
cause no one else will ever do
Don't you forget I get what I want
All I want is you
Bring your strawberry car
Come to the cabaret in my mind
The camera's rolling
The water feels fine
You know I'm half crazy for you
and there's nothing you can do
CHORUS
Red rubies daffodils
Gentle breezes and windowsills
Starlight silver radiation
inside my mental television
An acid metamorphosis
An altered state of consciousness
Candy mansions of the soul
No compromises turn to gold
CHORUS
Lyrics submitted by deletemyaccountplz
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