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"
Adelaide:
You promise me this,
You promise me that,
You promise me everything under the sun,
But you give me your kiss,
and you're grabbin' your hat,
and you're off to the races again.
When I think of the time gone by,
And I think of the way I try,
I could honestly die!
Nathan:
Call a lawyer and sue me, sue me,
What can you do me?
I love you.
Give a holler and hate me, hate me,
Go ahead hate me,
I love you.
Adelaide:
The best years of my life I was a fool to give to you.
Nathan:
All right already!
I'm just a no-good-nick,
All right already, it's true.
So nu.
So sue me, sue me,
What can you do me?
I love you.
Adelaide:
You gamble it here,
You gamble it there,
You gamble on everything all except me,
And I'm sick of your keeping me up in the edge,
Till your back in the money again.
And when I think of the time gone by,
And I think of the way I try,
I could honestly die.
Nathan:
Serve a paper and sue me, sue me,
What can you do me?
I love you.
Give a holler and hate me, hate me,
Go ahead hate me,
I love you.
Adelaide:
When you wind up in jail don't come to me to bail you out!
Nathan:
All right already,
So call a policeman,
All right already it's true,
So nu,
So sue me, sue me,
What can you do me?
I love you.
Adelaide:
You're at it again,
You're running the game,
I'm not gonna play second fiddle to that,
And I'm sick and I'm tired of stalling around,
And I'm telling you now that we're through
When I think of the time gone by,
And I think of the way I try,
I could honestly die!
Nathan:
Sue me, sue me,
Shoot bullets through me,
I love you!
You promise me this,
You promise me that,
You promise me everything under the sun,
But you give me your kiss,
and you're grabbin' your hat,
and you're off to the races again.
When I think of the time gone by,
And I think of the way I try,
I could honestly die!
Nathan:
Call a lawyer and sue me, sue me,
What can you do me?
I love you.
Give a holler and hate me, hate me,
Go ahead hate me,
I love you.
Adelaide:
The best years of my life I was a fool to give to you.
Nathan:
All right already!
I'm just a no-good-nick,
All right already, it's true.
So nu.
So sue me, sue me,
What can you do me?
I love you.
Adelaide:
You gamble it here,
You gamble it there,
You gamble on everything all except me,
And I'm sick of your keeping me up in the edge,
Till your back in the money again.
And when I think of the time gone by,
And I think of the way I try,
I could honestly die.
Nathan:
Serve a paper and sue me, sue me,
What can you do me?
I love you.
Give a holler and hate me, hate me,
Go ahead hate me,
I love you.
Adelaide:
When you wind up in jail don't come to me to bail you out!
Nathan:
All right already,
So call a policeman,
All right already it's true,
So nu,
So sue me, sue me,
What can you do me?
I love you.
Adelaide:
You're at it again,
You're running the game,
I'm not gonna play second fiddle to that,
And I'm sick and I'm tired of stalling around,
And I'm telling you now that we're through
When I think of the time gone by,
And I think of the way I try,
I could honestly die!
Nathan:
Sue me, sue me,
Shoot bullets through me,
I love you!
Lyrics submitted by Rosiega1218, edited by stephenoq4
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