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 I may be young, but I've got feelings too
And I need to do what I feel like doing
So let me go, and just listen
All you people look at me like I'm a little girl
Well did you ever think it'd be ok for me to step into this world
Always saying little girl don't step into the club
Well I'm just tryin' to find out why 'cause dancing's what I love
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
I know I may come off quiet, I may come off shy
But I feel like talking, feel like dancing when I see this guy
What's practical is logical, what the hell, who cares?
All I know is I'm so happy when you're dancing there
I'm a slave for you, I cannot hold it, I cannot control it
I'm a slave for you, I won't deny it, I'm not trying to hide it
Baby, don't you wanna, dance up on me
(I just wanna dance next to you)
To another time and place
Oh baby, don't you wanna, dance up on me
(Are you ready)
Leaving behind my name, and age
(Let's go)
(Like that)
(You like it)
(Now watch me)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
I really wanna dance, tonight with you
(I just can't help myself)
I really wanna do what you want me to
(I just feel I let myself go)
I really wanna dance, tonight with you
(Wanna see you move)
I really wanna do what you want me to
(Uh uh uh)
Baby, don't you wanna, dance up on me
(I just wanna dance next to you)
To another time and place
Oh, baby, don't you wanna, dance up on me
(Are you ready)
Leaving behind my name, and age
I'm a slave for you (take that) I cannot hold it, I cannot control it
I'm a slave (it just feels right) for you (it just feels good)
I won't deny it, I'm not trying to hide it (baby)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
I'm a slave for you (here we go now)
I cannot hold it, I cannot control it
I'm a slave for you, (here we go) I won't deny it, (yeah)
I'm not trying to hide it
(Like that)
And I need to do what I feel like doing
So let me go, and just listen
All you people look at me like I'm a little girl
Well did you ever think it'd be ok for me to step into this world
Always saying little girl don't step into the club
Well I'm just tryin' to find out why 'cause dancing's what I love
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
I know I may come off quiet, I may come off shy
But I feel like talking, feel like dancing when I see this guy
What's practical is logical, what the hell, who cares?
All I know is I'm so happy when you're dancing there
I'm a slave for you, I cannot hold it, I cannot control it
I'm a slave for you, I won't deny it, I'm not trying to hide it
Baby, don't you wanna, dance up on me
(I just wanna dance next to you)
To another time and place
Oh baby, don't you wanna, dance up on me
(Are you ready)
Leaving behind my name, and age
(Let's go)
(Like that)
(You like it)
(Now watch me)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
I really wanna dance, tonight with you
(I just can't help myself)
I really wanna do what you want me to
(I just feel I let myself go)
I really wanna dance, tonight with you
(Wanna see you move)
I really wanna do what you want me to
(Uh uh uh)
Baby, don't you wanna, dance up on me
(I just wanna dance next to you)
To another time and place
Oh, baby, don't you wanna, dance up on me
(Are you ready)
Leaving behind my name, and age
I'm a slave for you (take that) I cannot hold it, I cannot control it
I'm a slave (it just feels right) for you (it just feels good)
I won't deny it, I'm not trying to hide it (baby)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
Get it get it, get it get it (oh)
I'm a slave for you (here we go now)
I cannot hold it, I cannot control it
I'm a slave for you, (here we go) I won't deny it, (yeah)
I'm not trying to hide it
(Like that)
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ha, i know mature right