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"
Wait a minute what's going on
I can feel the change in your attitude
Sure I like you don't get me wrong
But there are things you said that you want from me
I can't give you, oh no no
I like your smile and your company
And like the way we fool around
But now you're asking too much of me
I can't hang with you if all you want is to tie me down
So don't you hate me
I hope you understand why I've got to do what I've got to do
No don't you hate me
Baby I wouldn't lie if the time was right then it would be you
Don't hate me no, oh no
Wait a second let's talk this out
What did we say from the very start
If you had listened to what I said
Then I wouldn't have to break your heart
So don't you hate me
I hope you understand why I've got to do what I've got to do
No don't you hate me
Baby I wouldn't lie if the time was right then it would be you
Now sometimes I feel like you
But there's so much left to do
I could do what you want me to
And you might be happy
But I won't be happy
So don't you hate me
I hope you understand why I've got to do what I've got to do
No don't you hate me
Baby I wouldn't lie if the time was right then it would be you
So don't you hate me
I hope you understand why I've got to do what I've got to do
No don't you hate me
Baby I wouldn't lie if the time was right then it would be you
Don't hate me, if I'm not in love, I'm not in love
Don't hate me, if I'm not in love, I'm not in love
So don't you hate me
I hope you understand why I've got to do what I've got to do
No don't you hate me
Baby I wouldn't lie if the time was right then it would be you
So don't you hate me
I hope you understand why I've got to do what I've got to do
No don't you hate me
Baby I wouldn't lie if the time was right then it would be you
So don't you hate me
I hope you understand why I've got to do what I've got to do
No don't you hate me
Baby I wouldn't lie if the time was right then it would be you
I can feel the change in your attitude
Sure I like you don't get me wrong
But there are things you said that you want from me
I can't give you, oh no no
I like your smile and your company
And like the way we fool around
But now you're asking too much of me
I can't hang with you if all you want is to tie me down
So don't you hate me
I hope you understand why I've got to do what I've got to do
No don't you hate me
Baby I wouldn't lie if the time was right then it would be you
Don't hate me no, oh no
Wait a second let's talk this out
What did we say from the very start
If you had listened to what I said
Then I wouldn't have to break your heart
So don't you hate me
I hope you understand why I've got to do what I've got to do
No don't you hate me
Baby I wouldn't lie if the time was right then it would be you
Now sometimes I feel like you
But there's so much left to do
I could do what you want me to
And you might be happy
But I won't be happy
So don't you hate me
I hope you understand why I've got to do what I've got to do
No don't you hate me
Baby I wouldn't lie if the time was right then it would be you
So don't you hate me
I hope you understand why I've got to do what I've got to do
No don't you hate me
Baby I wouldn't lie if the time was right then it would be you
Don't hate me, if I'm not in love, I'm not in love
Don't hate me, if I'm not in love, I'm not in love
So don't you hate me
I hope you understand why I've got to do what I've got to do
No don't you hate me
Baby I wouldn't lie if the time was right then it would be you
So don't you hate me
I hope you understand why I've got to do what I've got to do
No don't you hate me
Baby I wouldn't lie if the time was right then it would be you
So don't you hate me
I hope you understand why I've got to do what I've got to do
No don't you hate me
Baby I wouldn't lie if the time was right then it would be you
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