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"
some people sing about deutsche girls
and girls from california
they might be alright for a night alright
but don't trust them i warn you
i've been to the east and i've been out west
and i've been the world around
but i ain't seen none come anywhere near
the girls from london town
give me a london girl every time
i've got to find one
i've made up my mind
give me a london girl every time
i want a london girl
marry a girl from london town,
you know you can trust her
she'll darn your socks, and wash and mend
you're trousers if ya bust em, yes
there all good cooks
and they got good looks
and they wont lead you a dance
'said, i gotta find a london girl
if i get a half a chance
oh, give me a london girl every time
i've got to find one
i've made up my mind
give me a london girl every time
i want a london girl
london girls are the best in the world
there ain't no doubt about it
if ya can't find a girl from london town
you're better off a-doin' without it
they don't create when you come home late
and you're crawlin' up the passage floor
and they wont muck about, yes, when you've gone out
with the geezer from the house next door
oh, give me a london girl every time
i've got to find one
i've made up my mind
i said, honey, give me a london girl, babe
every little 'ol time
your legs turn to jelly
and i got a little smelly
but i know it's just what i want
'cause i need a london girl,
oh, every time
they've always got a pound
to buy their round
when its their turn at the bar
and girls from california
they might be alright for a night alright
but don't trust them i warn you
i've been to the east and i've been out west
and i've been the world around
but i ain't seen none come anywhere near
the girls from london town
give me a london girl every time
i've got to find one
i've made up my mind
give me a london girl every time
i want a london girl
marry a girl from london town,
you know you can trust her
she'll darn your socks, and wash and mend
you're trousers if ya bust em, yes
there all good cooks
and they got good looks
and they wont lead you a dance
'said, i gotta find a london girl
if i get a half a chance
oh, give me a london girl every time
i've got to find one
i've made up my mind
give me a london girl every time
i want a london girl
london girls are the best in the world
there ain't no doubt about it
if ya can't find a girl from london town
you're better off a-doin' without it
they don't create when you come home late
and you're crawlin' up the passage floor
and they wont muck about, yes, when you've gone out
with the geezer from the house next door
oh, give me a london girl every time
i've got to find one
i've made up my mind
i said, honey, give me a london girl, babe
every little 'ol time
your legs turn to jelly
and i got a little smelly
but i know it's just what i want
'cause i need a london girl,
oh, every time
they've always got a pound
to buy their round
when its their turn at the bar
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