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"
When I first met you
You told me exactly how it would be
You had a lady
And couldn't spend all your time with me
I only wanted to kick it
So I said, "Cool, you can keep her
'Long as you satisfy me"
But as the weeks went by
I, I started feeling strange
Somethin' was deep in my heart
Somethin' I can't explain
I think I'm fallin' in love with you, boy
I'm needin' you so much
I'm cryin' just to feel your touch
I gotta leave you (let's go)
I didn't wanna man (a man)
I didn't wanna fall in love and
I didn't care about your girl (your girl)
I didn't care how we would end up
But that was then, this is now
I think I'm experiencing love
I don't wanna wreck up your home
That's why I'm convinced I gotta go
When I first met you
You told me exactly how it would be
You had a lady
And couldn't spend all your time with me
I only wanted to kick it
So I said, "Cool, you can keep her
'Long as you satisfy me"
But as the weeks went by
I, I started feeling strange
Somethin' was deep in my heart
Somethin' I can't explain
I think I'm fallin' in love with you, boy
I'm needin' you so much
I'm cryin' just to feel your touch
I gotta leave you
Every time she calls you expect (you expect)
Me to disappear like we never met
At first I didn't mind, but now I (but now, I)
Sometimes feel like you're all mine
You told me it was all about me, me, me
It's not about me if you're still with her
Now I realized that I gotta move on
It might be hard but, I
I gotta move on
When I first met you
You told me exactly how it would be
You had a lady
And couldn't spend all your time with me
I only wanted to kick it
So I said, "Cool, you can keep her
'Long as you satisfy me"
But as the weeks went by
I, I started feeling strange
Somethin' was deep in my heart
Somethin' I can't explain
I think I'm fallin' in love with you, boy
I'm needin' you so much
I'm cryin' just to feel your touch
I gotta leave you
I gotta leave you (I gotta leave you)
I gotta leave you (I gotta leave you)
I gotta leave you (I gotta leave you)
Gotta, gotta leave you (gotta leave you)
I gotta leave you (I gotta leave you)
I gotta leave you (gotta leave you)
-First met you
You told me exactly how it would be
You had a lady
And couldn't spend all your time with me
I only wanted to kick it
So I said, "Cool, you can keep her
'Long as you satisfy me"
But as the weeks went by
I
You told me exactly how it would be
You had a lady
And couldn't spend all your time with me
I only wanted to kick it
So I said, "Cool, you can keep her
'Long as you satisfy me"
But as the weeks went by
I, I started feeling strange
Somethin' was deep in my heart
Somethin' I can't explain
I think I'm fallin' in love with you, boy
I'm needin' you so much
I'm cryin' just to feel your touch
I gotta leave you (let's go)
I didn't wanna man (a man)
I didn't wanna fall in love and
I didn't care about your girl (your girl)
I didn't care how we would end up
But that was then, this is now
I think I'm experiencing love
I don't wanna wreck up your home
That's why I'm convinced I gotta go
When I first met you
You told me exactly how it would be
You had a lady
And couldn't spend all your time with me
I only wanted to kick it
So I said, "Cool, you can keep her
'Long as you satisfy me"
But as the weeks went by
I, I started feeling strange
Somethin' was deep in my heart
Somethin' I can't explain
I think I'm fallin' in love with you, boy
I'm needin' you so much
I'm cryin' just to feel your touch
I gotta leave you
Every time she calls you expect (you expect)
Me to disappear like we never met
At first I didn't mind, but now I (but now, I)
Sometimes feel like you're all mine
You told me it was all about me, me, me
It's not about me if you're still with her
Now I realized that I gotta move on
It might be hard but, I
I gotta move on
When I first met you
You told me exactly how it would be
You had a lady
And couldn't spend all your time with me
I only wanted to kick it
So I said, "Cool, you can keep her
'Long as you satisfy me"
But as the weeks went by
I, I started feeling strange
Somethin' was deep in my heart
Somethin' I can't explain
I think I'm fallin' in love with you, boy
I'm needin' you so much
I'm cryin' just to feel your touch
I gotta leave you
I gotta leave you (I gotta leave you)
I gotta leave you (I gotta leave you)
I gotta leave you (I gotta leave you)
Gotta, gotta leave you (gotta leave you)
I gotta leave you (I gotta leave you)
I gotta leave you (gotta leave you)
-First met you
You told me exactly how it would be
You had a lady
And couldn't spend all your time with me
I only wanted to kick it
So I said, "Cool, you can keep her
'Long as you satisfy me"
But as the weeks went by
I
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I think this song kinda speaks for itself really. It's about seeing somebody... well rather... them seeing you "on the side"... and u start to catch feelings for them when that was never ur initial intention... u jus wanted to have fun.. "kick it" as she says.. and then u get caught up n stuff.. u realise that he will always be feelin her more than he will ever be feelin u so u come to the conclusion that u must leave him... yeah.. best option if u ask me.. ive been there, done that, worn that t-shirt, no fun .. :) but yeah..