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 been watchin' you a long time
Trying to figure out where and when
We've been moving down that same line
The time is now maybe we could get skin to skin
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of comin' to an end
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of slippin' away
Baby, let's be friends
Come on, let's be friends
I know we're different you and me
Got a different way of walkin'
The time has come to let the past be history
Yeah, if we could just start talkin'
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good things got a way of comin' to an end
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good things got a way of slippin' away
Baby, let's be friends
Come on, let's be friends
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Do, do do doo do do do do doo
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Baby, let's be friends
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Come on, let's be friends
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Baby, let's be friends, let's be friends
There's a lot of talk going 'round now
Let 'em talk you know you're the only one
There's a lot of walls need tearing down
Together we could take them down one by one
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of comin' to an end
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of slippin'
Baby, let's be friends
Come on, let's be friends
Baby, let's be friends
Come on, let's be friends
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Do, do do doo do do do do doo
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Baby, let's be friends
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Come on, let's be friends
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Trying to figure out where and when
We've been moving down that same line
The time is now maybe we could get skin to skin
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of comin' to an end
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of slippin' away
Baby, let's be friends
Come on, let's be friends
I know we're different you and me
Got a different way of walkin'
The time has come to let the past be history
Yeah, if we could just start talkin'
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good things got a way of comin' to an end
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good things got a way of slippin' away
Baby, let's be friends
Come on, let's be friends
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Do, do do doo do do do do doo
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Baby, let's be friends
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Come on, let's be friends
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Baby, let's be friends, let's be friends
There's a lot of talk going 'round now
Let 'em talk you know you're the only one
There's a lot of walls need tearing down
Together we could take them down one by one
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of comin' to an end
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of slippin'
Baby, let's be friends
Come on, let's be friends
Baby, let's be friends
Come on, let's be friends
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Do, do do doo do do do do doo
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Baby, let's be friends
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Come on, let's be friends
Do, do do doo do do do doo
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