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 thought she had to have it
Since the first time she came
Who knows the situation
Mysteries do remain
And now I wonder why
I breakdown when I cry
Is it something I said
Or is it just a lie?
Ah, is it just a lie?
I try so hard to love you
Some things take time and shame
I think the whole world of you
Your thoughts of me remain
I'll play the fool for you
I'll change the rules for you
Just say it and I'll do
Just make this thing come true
Ah, make a dream come true
If I let her get away
Though I'm begging on my knees
I'll be crying every day
Knowing the girl that got away
I can't let
I can't let her get away
I can't let
I can't let her get away (no)
I can't let
I can't let her get away
I can't let
I can't let her get away
I tried to mastermind it
By saying let it be
But every time I did it
The hurt came back at me
I told you that I need you
A thousand times and why
I played the fool for you
And still you said goodbye
Still you said goodbye
If I let her get away
Then the world'll have to see
A fool who lives alone
And the fool who set you free
I can't let
I can't let her get away
I can't let
I can't let her get away
I can't let
I can't let her get away (no)
I can't let
I can't let her get away, woo
Woo
I got the feeling, that trouble's gotta stop
I got the feeling, she's never gonna drop
I got the feeling, she's never gonna stop
I got the feeling that she's never gonna go
I got the feeling, that she's gonna like it
I got the feeling but she's never gonna take a break
I got the feeling, huh, that she won't fight it
I got the feeling, that's she's never gonna let go
Can't let go (oh)
I gotta get her, oh
I gotta get her 'cause you're never gonna let me go
Can't let go
Gotta see her, how you gonna stop me?
I got a feeling that your never gonna leave
I got a feeling that she's gonna hurt me
I got a feeling that your never gonna wanna leave
I can't let
I can't let her get away (no, no)
I can't let (she won't)
I can't let her get away (she won't, she, she won't do it)
I can't let
I can't let her get away (I won't do it)
I can't let (no, no)
I can't let her get away (no, no, no, no)
I can't let (get away)
I can't let
(She won't, she won't, she won't do it)
I can't let (woo, woo, woo, woo)
I can't let (no, no)
(She's never gonna, never gonna, man, I tell you)
I can't let (she won't, wanna)
I can't let her get away (oh no)
I can't let (she won't)
I can't let her get away (oh my)
I can't let (oh no)
I can't let her get away (she won't, she won't)
I can't let (she won't, she won't)
I can't let her get away (she won't, she won't)
I can't let (oh, oh I'm never gonna, be with me)
(I'm never gonna, on with Riley, try to step to me)
I'm never gonna, never gonna stop (I can't let)
I'm never gonna stop it, no, no
Gonna stop, thought you gonna stop me (I can't let)
I'm never gonna stop, don't ever try to knock me (I can't let her get away)
I'm never gonna, uh, she gonna l- (I can't let)
I'm never gonna stop, ah, ah, I'm never gonna be (I can't let her get away)
Gonna be
Since the first time she came
Who knows the situation
Mysteries do remain
And now I wonder why
I breakdown when I cry
Is it something I said
Or is it just a lie?
Ah, is it just a lie?
I try so hard to love you
Some things take time and shame
I think the whole world of you
Your thoughts of me remain
I'll play the fool for you
I'll change the rules for you
Just say it and I'll do
Just make this thing come true
Ah, make a dream come true
If I let her get away
Though I'm begging on my knees
I'll be crying every day
Knowing the girl that got away
I can't let
I can't let her get away
I can't let
I can't let her get away (no)
I can't let
I can't let her get away
I can't let
I can't let her get away
I tried to mastermind it
By saying let it be
But every time I did it
The hurt came back at me
I told you that I need you
A thousand times and why
I played the fool for you
And still you said goodbye
Still you said goodbye
If I let her get away
Then the world'll have to see
A fool who lives alone
And the fool who set you free
I can't let
I can't let her get away
I can't let
I can't let her get away
I can't let
I can't let her get away (no)
I can't let
I can't let her get away, woo
Woo
I got the feeling, that trouble's gotta stop
I got the feeling, she's never gonna drop
I got the feeling, she's never gonna stop
I got the feeling that she's never gonna go
I got the feeling, that she's gonna like it
I got the feeling but she's never gonna take a break
I got the feeling, huh, that she won't fight it
I got the feeling, that's she's never gonna let go
Can't let go (oh)
I gotta get her, oh
I gotta get her 'cause you're never gonna let me go
Can't let go
Gotta see her, how you gonna stop me?
I got a feeling that your never gonna leave
I got a feeling that she's gonna hurt me
I got a feeling that your never gonna wanna leave
I can't let
I can't let her get away (no, no)
I can't let (she won't)
I can't let her get away (she won't, she, she won't do it)
I can't let
I can't let her get away (I won't do it)
I can't let (no, no)
I can't let her get away (no, no, no, no)
I can't let (get away)
I can't let
(She won't, she won't, she won't do it)
I can't let (woo, woo, woo, woo)
I can't let (no, no)
(She's never gonna, never gonna, man, I tell you)
I can't let (she won't, wanna)
I can't let her get away (oh no)
I can't let (she won't)
I can't let her get away (oh my)
I can't let (oh no)
I can't let her get away (she won't, she won't)
I can't let (she won't, she won't)
I can't let her get away (she won't, she won't)
I can't let (oh, oh I'm never gonna, be with me)
(I'm never gonna, on with Riley, try to step to me)
I'm never gonna, never gonna stop (I can't let)
I'm never gonna stop it, no, no
Gonna stop, thought you gonna stop me (I can't let)
I'm never gonna stop, don't ever try to knock me (I can't let her get away)
I'm never gonna, uh, she gonna l- (I can't let)
I'm never gonna stop, ah, ah, I'm never gonna be (I can't let her get away)
Gonna be
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