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 don't know what it is that you've done to me
But it's caused to me act in such a crazy way
Whatever it is that you do when you do what you doing
It's a feeling that I want to stay
'cause my heart starts beating triple time
With thoughts of loving you on my mind
I can't figure out just what to do
When the cause and cure is you, you
I get so weak in the knees
I can hardly speak
I lose all control and somethin' takes over me
In a daze, your love's so amazing
It's not a phase, I want you to stay with me
By my side, I swallow my pride
Your love is so sweet, it knocks me right off of my feet
Can't explain why your lovin' makes me weak
Mm'hmm
Time after time after time I've tried to fight it
But your love is strong, it keeps on holdin' on
Resistance is down when you're around, pride's fading
In my condition I don't want to be alone
'cause my heart starts beating triple time
With thoughts of loving you on my mind
I can't figure out just what to do
When the cause and cure is you, yo oh oh oh
I get so weak in the knees
I can hardly speak
I lose all control and somethin' takes over me
(Takes over me)
In a daze, your love's so amazing
It's not a phase, I want you to stay with me
By my side, I swallow my pride
Your love is so sweet, it knocks me right off of my feet
(Knocks me right off of my feet, oh yeah, oh)
Can't explain why your lovin' makes me weak
(Makes me weak)
Yeah, yeah, ooh
I try hard to fight it
No way can I deny it
Your love's so sweet
Knocks me off my feet
I get so weak in the knees
I can hardly speak
I lose all control and somethin' takes over me
In a daze, your love's so amazing
It's not a phase, I want you to stay with me
By my side, I swallow my pride
Your love is so sweet, it knocks me right off of my feet
Can't explain why your lovin' makes me weak
I get so weak
Blood starts racin' through my veins
I get so weak
Boy, it's somethin' I can't explain
I get so weak
Somethin' 'bout the way you do
The things you do-ooh-ooh, it
Knocks me right off of my feet
(Oh, off my feet)
Can't explain why your lovin' makes me weak
(I get so)
I get so weak in the knees
I can hardly speak
I lose all control and somethin' takes over me
(I lose control, takes over me)
In a daze, your love's so amazing
It's not a phase, I want you to stay with me
By my side, I swallow my pride
Your love is so sweet, it knocks me right off of my feet
(I) Can't explain why your lovin' makes me weak
But it's caused to me act in such a crazy way
Whatever it is that you do when you do what you doing
It's a feeling that I want to stay
'cause my heart starts beating triple time
With thoughts of loving you on my mind
I can't figure out just what to do
When the cause and cure is you, you
I get so weak in the knees
I can hardly speak
I lose all control and somethin' takes over me
In a daze, your love's so amazing
It's not a phase, I want you to stay with me
By my side, I swallow my pride
Your love is so sweet, it knocks me right off of my feet
Can't explain why your lovin' makes me weak
Mm'hmm
Time after time after time I've tried to fight it
But your love is strong, it keeps on holdin' on
Resistance is down when you're around, pride's fading
In my condition I don't want to be alone
'cause my heart starts beating triple time
With thoughts of loving you on my mind
I can't figure out just what to do
When the cause and cure is you, yo oh oh oh
I get so weak in the knees
I can hardly speak
I lose all control and somethin' takes over me
(Takes over me)
In a daze, your love's so amazing
It's not a phase, I want you to stay with me
By my side, I swallow my pride
Your love is so sweet, it knocks me right off of my feet
(Knocks me right off of my feet, oh yeah, oh)
Can't explain why your lovin' makes me weak
(Makes me weak)
Yeah, yeah, ooh
I try hard to fight it
No way can I deny it
Your love's so sweet
Knocks me off my feet
I get so weak in the knees
I can hardly speak
I lose all control and somethin' takes over me
In a daze, your love's so amazing
It's not a phase, I want you to stay with me
By my side, I swallow my pride
Your love is so sweet, it knocks me right off of my feet
Can't explain why your lovin' makes me weak
I get so weak
Blood starts racin' through my veins
I get so weak
Boy, it's somethin' I can't explain
I get so weak
Somethin' 'bout the way you do
The things you do-ooh-ooh, it
Knocks me right off of my feet
(Oh, off my feet)
Can't explain why your lovin' makes me weak
(I get so)
I get so weak in the knees
I can hardly speak
I lose all control and somethin' takes over me
(I lose control, takes over me)
In a daze, your love's so amazing
It's not a phase, I want you to stay with me
By my side, I swallow my pride
Your love is so sweet, it knocks me right off of my feet
(I) Can't explain why your lovin' makes me weak
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