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 met you at the club that night
Where I was spinning records
And my heart said
Hey now, hey now, hey now
Hey now yaaaow
You said you were pleased to meet me
Through the sweet smell of your perfume
And blew me
Away now, away now, away now
Away now yaaaow
Later on that week we went out
Talked under the stars until the next
Day now, day now, day now
Day now yaaaow
You drank your Fruitopia
And we never ran out of things to
Say now, say now, say now
Say now yaaow
Every minute I'm not with you
I hope I'll see you soon
There's just something that happens
When you walk into the room
And instantly I feel so complete
It hits me right about the time you kiss my cheek
And you give me this feeling
It's like no other feeling
But it knocks me off my feet
Please don't ask me what I like about you
Cause it's every little thing you do
And that's just the way you make me feel
And I don't think
That there are any others out there like you
And I won't blink cause that would mean
I would miss a second beside you
And maybe you know what I mean
Or maybe this is just a dream
I pinch myself just to make sure
But I'm still here and there you are
I wonder why we just met now
It just kind of happened somehow
But here we are together and
That's all that matters in the end
And instantly I feel so complete
It hits me right about the time you kiss my cheek
And you give me this feeling
It's like no other feeling
But it knocks me off my feet
Please don't ask me what I like about you
Cause it's every little thing you do
And that's just the way you make me feel
You can never ask for too much
Cause I'd travel the world just to feel your touch
And that's just the way you make me feel
Where I was spinning records
And my heart said
Hey now, hey now, hey now
Hey now yaaaow
You said you were pleased to meet me
Through the sweet smell of your perfume
And blew me
Away now, away now, away now
Away now yaaaow
Later on that week we went out
Talked under the stars until the next
Day now, day now, day now
Day now yaaaow
You drank your Fruitopia
And we never ran out of things to
Say now, say now, say now
Say now yaaow
Every minute I'm not with you
I hope I'll see you soon
There's just something that happens
When you walk into the room
And instantly I feel so complete
It hits me right about the time you kiss my cheek
And you give me this feeling
It's like no other feeling
But it knocks me off my feet
Please don't ask me what I like about you
Cause it's every little thing you do
And that's just the way you make me feel
And I don't think
That there are any others out there like you
And I won't blink cause that would mean
I would miss a second beside you
And maybe you know what I mean
Or maybe this is just a dream
I pinch myself just to make sure
But I'm still here and there you are
I wonder why we just met now
It just kind of happened somehow
But here we are together and
That's all that matters in the end
And instantly I feel so complete
It hits me right about the time you kiss my cheek
And you give me this feeling
It's like no other feeling
But it knocks me off my feet
Please don't ask me what I like about you
Cause it's every little thing you do
And that's just the way you make me feel
You can never ask for too much
Cause I'd travel the world just to feel your touch
And that's just the way you make me feel
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i love this song. i used to listen to it a ton and i totally want something like this. but dont we all. FM static is an awesome band though
its a song about first falling in love. he puts young love into such condensed, simple lyrics, but they sum up perfectly how it feels.
"Every minute I'm not with you i hope ill see you soon theres just something that happens when you walk into the room"
I mean, duh, you're going to miss the person when you're apart, but he just expresses it so beautifully.
This song rocks i hope some day i'll find a chick to say this about
Yaaow! great song...
Nice Song, Ending is quite nice, but must the beginning be so repeatitive? but over all, i still like this song =)
i love this song. especially cause my boyfriend sang it to me once!
wow...too many things to say to a girl! but it sure will make her melt away. i know i would! haha.
Wow. Very...happy. As much as this is almost sickeningly sweet in its contentedness--I love it. It really describes perfectly that feeling when you're "newly" in love with someone.
"any minute im not with you i hope ill see you soon theres just something that happens when you walk into the room
and instantly i feel so complete it hits me right about the time you kiss my cheek and you give me this feeling its like no other feeling but it knocks me off my feet
please dont ask me what i like about you cause its every little thing you do and thats just the way you make me feel"
This section is a sums up flawlessly the way I feel about my boyfriend. (Is that wierd, that I, a female, am using the lyrics that were written for a girl for my boyfriend?)...Oh well ;-) Seriously, though--other than the perfume part, this is my boyfriend and I.
This sing shows exactley how I feel about someone right now. Especially the part where it says:
"please dont ask me what i like about you cause its every little thing you do and thats just the way you make me feel
you can never ask for too much cause id travel the world just to feel your touch and thats just the way you make me feel"
Those two sum it up perfectly.
this part hits hard "please dont ask me what i like about you cause its every little thing you do and thats just the way you make me feel" and the background vocals on tha part really are fitting...