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"
Come on Jay
Yea, yeah, (oh!) ooh ooh ooh
Oh this evening, this evening
Yea, yeah
I'm gonna do ya, gonna do ya right, oh yeah
If you don't mind xxxxx
Set the mood
Light the candles and bring the wine
(Baby bring the wine)
I'm wantin' you
(Been havin' this feeling) for some time now
Come on in
Take off your coat and stay awhile(stay with me)
I been waitin' for this day
Just so we can make
Oh slowly (slowly, I know)
We'll be
Makin' love
Slowly, all night
All night long
Slowly (I know)
We'll be
Makin' love
Slowly, all night
All night long
Slip it off, yeah
Show big daddy what he've been missing
Tip it off, tip it off
Want you to feel right when I'm kissin', I'm kissin'
(Really really wanna take my time)
Witcha pretty baby
Makin' you go mad
Love you (love you) all night long
Slowly (I know)
You'll be making love
Slowly (slowly babe) all night
All night long
(I just want to touch your pretty little body babe)
Slowly (I know)
We'll be
Makin' love
Slowly, all night
All night long
Oh slowly babe (slowly) (I know)
It's wine to get you in the mood
You'll be making love
Slowly (I wanna do it slowly) all night
All night long
Oh I wanna put my place in places you would never let anybody go before
Makin' love slowly, all night, all night long
Come on in
Close the door
Take off your coat
Drink some more
Holdin' you close
Holdin' you tight
Makin' love all through the night
Come on in
Close the door
Take off your coat
Drink some more
Holdin' you close
Holdin' you tight
Makin' love (makin' love) through the night
Slowly (I know)
You'll be making love
Slowly all night
All night long
(Oh I don't think you wanna see what I'm trynna do)
Slowly (I know)
You'll be making love
Slowly all night
All night long
I just wanna take it slowly
I wanna take it slowly
I wanna take it slowly, slowly babe
Oh slowly babe
Come on in
And close the door
Take off your clothes
Drink some more
Holdin' you close
Holdin' you tight
Makin' love through the night
Come on in
And close the door
Take off your clothes
Drink some more
Holdin' you close
Holdin' you tight
Makin' love through the night
Slowly, (I just wanna take slowly) you'll be
Slowly
Yea, yeah, (oh!) ooh ooh ooh
Oh this evening, this evening
Yea, yeah
I'm gonna do ya, gonna do ya right, oh yeah
If you don't mind xxxxx
Set the mood
Light the candles and bring the wine
(Baby bring the wine)
I'm wantin' you
(Been havin' this feeling) for some time now
Come on in
Take off your coat and stay awhile(stay with me)
I been waitin' for this day
Just so we can make
Oh slowly (slowly, I know)
We'll be
Makin' love
Slowly, all night
All night long
Slowly (I know)
We'll be
Makin' love
Slowly, all night
All night long
Slip it off, yeah
Show big daddy what he've been missing
Tip it off, tip it off
Want you to feel right when I'm kissin', I'm kissin'
(Really really wanna take my time)
Witcha pretty baby
Makin' you go mad
Love you (love you) all night long
Slowly (I know)
You'll be making love
Slowly (slowly babe) all night
All night long
(I just want to touch your pretty little body babe)
Slowly (I know)
We'll be
Makin' love
Slowly, all night
All night long
Oh slowly babe (slowly) (I know)
It's wine to get you in the mood
You'll be making love
Slowly (I wanna do it slowly) all night
All night long
Oh I wanna put my place in places you would never let anybody go before
Makin' love slowly, all night, all night long
Come on in
Close the door
Take off your coat
Drink some more
Holdin' you close
Holdin' you tight
Makin' love all through the night
Come on in
Close the door
Take off your coat
Drink some more
Holdin' you close
Holdin' you tight
Makin' love (makin' love) through the night
Slowly (I know)
You'll be making love
Slowly all night
All night long
(Oh I don't think you wanna see what I'm trynna do)
Slowly (I know)
You'll be making love
Slowly all night
All night long
I just wanna take it slowly
I wanna take it slowly
I wanna take it slowly, slowly babe
Oh slowly babe
Come on in
And close the door
Take off your clothes
Drink some more
Holdin' you close
Holdin' you tight
Makin' love through the night
Come on in
And close the door
Take off your clothes
Drink some more
Holdin' you close
Holdin' you tight
Makin' love through the night
Slowly, (I just wanna take slowly) you'll be
Slowly
Lyrics submitted by sweetkris83
Slowly Lyrics as written by Jeffrey Leon Walker Durrell Babbs
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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