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"
The amount of pills I'm taking (the amount of pills I'm taking)
Counteracts the booze I'm drinking (counteracts the booze I'm drinking)
And this vanity I'm breaking (and this vanity I'm breaking)
Lets me live my life like this
And well I find it hard to stay
With the words you say
Oh baby let me in, oh baby let me in
Well I'll choose the life I've taken
Never mind the friends I'm making
And the beauty that I'm faking
Lets me live my life like this
And well I find it hard to stay
With the words you say
Oh baby let me in, oh baby let me in
And you can cry all you want to
I don't care how much you'll invest yourself in me
We're not working out, we're not working out
We're not working out (we're not working out)
And you can't touch my brother
And you can't keep my friends
And we're not working out and we're not working out
This time I mean it
Never mind the times I've seen it
Well I hope I'm not mistaken
By the news I heard from waking
And it's hard to say I'm shaken
By the choices that I make
And well I find it hard to stay
With the words you say
Oh baby let me in, oh baby let me in
Well I'll choose this life I've taken (choose this life I've taken)
Never mind the friends I'm making (friends I'm making)
And I get a little shaken (I get a little shaken)
Because I live my life like this
And well I find it hard to stay
With the words you say
Oh baby let me in, oh baby let me in
And you can cry all you want to
I don't care how much you'll invest yourself in me
We're not working out, we're not working out
And you can't keep my brother
And you won't fuck my friends
And we're not working out and we're not working out
This time I mean it
Never mind the times I've seen it
Never again, never oh oh oh, well never again
(You can cry all you want to)
Ne-Never, never, well never again
(I don't care how much you'll invest yourself in me)
Ne-Never, never
(You can cry all you want to
I don't care how much you'll invest yourself...)
Oh baby, let me, oh baby, oh baby, oh baby, let me in
Oh baby, let me in
I'm knocking, let me in
Oh baby, let me in
Oh baby, let me in
I'm knocking, let me in
Oh baby, let me in
Oh baby, let me in
Counteracts the booze I'm drinking (counteracts the booze I'm drinking)
And this vanity I'm breaking (and this vanity I'm breaking)
Lets me live my life like this
And well I find it hard to stay
With the words you say
Oh baby let me in, oh baby let me in
Well I'll choose the life I've taken
Never mind the friends I'm making
And the beauty that I'm faking
Lets me live my life like this
And well I find it hard to stay
With the words you say
Oh baby let me in, oh baby let me in
And you can cry all you want to
I don't care how much you'll invest yourself in me
We're not working out, we're not working out
We're not working out (we're not working out)
And you can't touch my brother
And you can't keep my friends
And we're not working out and we're not working out
This time I mean it
Never mind the times I've seen it
Well I hope I'm not mistaken
By the news I heard from waking
And it's hard to say I'm shaken
By the choices that I make
And well I find it hard to stay
With the words you say
Oh baby let me in, oh baby let me in
Well I'll choose this life I've taken (choose this life I've taken)
Never mind the friends I'm making (friends I'm making)
And I get a little shaken (I get a little shaken)
Because I live my life like this
And well I find it hard to stay
With the words you say
Oh baby let me in, oh baby let me in
And you can cry all you want to
I don't care how much you'll invest yourself in me
We're not working out, we're not working out
And you can't keep my brother
And you won't fuck my friends
And we're not working out and we're not working out
This time I mean it
Never mind the times I've seen it
Never again, never oh oh oh, well never again
(You can cry all you want to)
Ne-Never, never, well never again
(I don't care how much you'll invest yourself in me)
Ne-Never, never
(You can cry all you want to
I don't care how much you'll invest yourself...)
Oh baby, let me, oh baby, oh baby, oh baby, let me in
Oh baby, let me in
I'm knocking, let me in
Oh baby, let me in
Oh baby, let me in
I'm knocking, let me in
Oh baby, let me in
Oh baby, let me in
Lyrics submitted by catra, edited by SmashingDestiny
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