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'm not looking for no mystery
Gotta be real love I'm nobody's game
Not a chance for you to move from the dancefloor
To the bedroom, gotta work your body more
Chilling with my friends
I hope that I'm gonna see you again
I'm feeling like my mind is being played
by someone I don't know
I'm transported to another time or place
with one glisten of that familiar face
Even thought I promised I would never fall
For someone like you
If you're feeling tight, and the mood is right
Lets get working, ooh ooh
Put your hand in mine, let me move in time
Start flirting.. working
All I want is someone to keep,
Longing for a long that's true
Maybe a love that's deep.
Won't you show me a way I can please you
Won't you show me a way I can please you
Make me feel nice
You won't have to show me twice.
I see you standing there,
Shall I approach you, I don't know if I dare
How would you be if I revealed what's on my mind
If I explained just how I feel
Would you make my fantasies become real
Should I take a chance to put my feelings on the line
Won't you give me a sign
If you're feeling tight, and the mood is right
Lets get working, ooh ooh
Put your hand in mine, let me move in time
Start flirting.. working
Lets get working, lets get working,
lets get working, lets get working,
lets get working, lets get working...
If you're feeling tight, and the mood is right
Lets get working, ooh ooh
Put your hand in mine, let me move in time
Start flirting.. working
If you're feeling tight, and the mood is right
Lets get working, ooh ooh
Put your hand in mine, let me move in time
Start flirting.. working
Gotta be real love I'm nobody's game
Not a chance for you to move from the dancefloor
To the bedroom, gotta work your body more
Chilling with my friends
I hope that I'm gonna see you again
I'm feeling like my mind is being played
by someone I don't know
I'm transported to another time or place
with one glisten of that familiar face
Even thought I promised I would never fall
For someone like you
If you're feeling tight, and the mood is right
Lets get working, ooh ooh
Put your hand in mine, let me move in time
Start flirting.. working
All I want is someone to keep,
Longing for a long that's true
Maybe a love that's deep.
Won't you show me a way I can please you
Won't you show me a way I can please you
Make me feel nice
You won't have to show me twice.
I see you standing there,
Shall I approach you, I don't know if I dare
How would you be if I revealed what's on my mind
If I explained just how I feel
Would you make my fantasies become real
Should I take a chance to put my feelings on the line
Won't you give me a sign
If you're feeling tight, and the mood is right
Lets get working, ooh ooh
Put your hand in mine, let me move in time
Start flirting.. working
Lets get working, lets get working,
lets get working, lets get working,
lets get working, lets get working...
If you're feeling tight, and the mood is right
Lets get working, ooh ooh
Put your hand in mine, let me move in time
Start flirting.. working
If you're feeling tight, and the mood is right
Lets get working, ooh ooh
Put your hand in mine, let me move in time
Start flirting.. working
Lyrics submitted by Bobo192
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