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"
República Dominicana
Oye, ahora ustedes van a cantar
Yo no voy a cantar, ustedes ahora conmigo
Esa noche contigo la pasé bien, (woh oh)
Pero yo me enteré que te debes a alguien, (yeh eh)
Y tú fallaste
Pero ya es tarde
Y tú fallaste
Pero ya es tarde (oye)
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Es una asesina
Ella conlleva la medicina
Engañadora que te envuelve y te domina
Una abusadora
Ella como sabe te devora
Y si no tienes experiencia te enamora
Una especialista
Para que te ponga ella a la vista
Balas hechiceras, un nombre en su lista
¿Que si es maliciosa?
Yo que la traté como una diosa
Me engañó y ahora me llama como loca, ¿sabes? (Oye)
Presea, dale, presea
Si ya no estamos juntos otra mujer me gardea, ¿sabes?
Presea, dale, presea
Que pocos son los indios y hay mucha india en la aldea, ¿sabes?
Presea, dale, presea
No dejes pa' mañana lo de hoy que te lo llevan, ma'
Presea, dale, presea
Ahora estás celosa porque otra me desea, yo', dile
Esa noche contigo la pasé bien, (woh oh)
Pero yo me enteré que te debes a alguien, (yeh eh)
Y tú fallaste
Pero ya es tarde
Y tú fallaste
Pero ya es tarde
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo (oye, mami)
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo (presea)
Presea, dale, presea
Si ya no estamos juntos otra mujer me gardea, ¿sabes?
(Presea, dale) presea
Que pocos son los indios y hay mucha india en la aldea, ¿sabes?
Presea, dale, presea
No dejes pa' mañana lo de hoy que te lo llevan, ma'
Presea, dale, presea
Ahora estás celosa porque otra me desea, ma' (dile)
Yo estoy soltero, mai y tú preseas
Yo saco otra a bailar y tú preseas
Tú comes en to's la'os y me preseas
Si tienes dueño, ma, ¿pa' qué me celas?
(Vamos a dejar esto claro ya, ¿okay?)
¿Cómo tú le dice' Yankee?
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Dale, dale, dale, y dale mambo
Dale mambo, dale mambo, dale
Y dale mambo (duro, duro), y dale mambo
Y dale mambo (duro, duro), y dale mambo
Y dale mambo (duro, duro), y dale mambo
Y dale mambo (suelta), y dale mambo (suelta)
Y dale mambo (suelta), y dale mambo (suelta)
Y dale mambo (suelta), y dale mambo (woh)
Oh, oh, dale mambo
Sandunguea, sandunguea, y dale mambo
Sandunguea, y dale, y dale mambo
Yeah, mucho sandungueo pa' las beautiful ladies
Oye, ahora ustedes van a cantar
Yo no voy a cantar, ustedes ahora conmigo
Esa noche contigo la pasé bien, (woh oh)
Pero yo me enteré que te debes a alguien, (yeh eh)
Y tú fallaste
Pero ya es tarde
Y tú fallaste
Pero ya es tarde (oye)
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Es una asesina
Ella conlleva la medicina
Engañadora que te envuelve y te domina
Una abusadora
Ella como sabe te devora
Y si no tienes experiencia te enamora
Una especialista
Para que te ponga ella a la vista
Balas hechiceras, un nombre en su lista
¿Que si es maliciosa?
Yo que la traté como una diosa
Me engañó y ahora me llama como loca, ¿sabes? (Oye)
Presea, dale, presea
Si ya no estamos juntos otra mujer me gardea, ¿sabes?
Presea, dale, presea
Que pocos son los indios y hay mucha india en la aldea, ¿sabes?
Presea, dale, presea
No dejes pa' mañana lo de hoy que te lo llevan, ma'
Presea, dale, presea
Ahora estás celosa porque otra me desea, yo', dile
Esa noche contigo la pasé bien, (woh oh)
Pero yo me enteré que te debes a alguien, (yeh eh)
Y tú fallaste
Pero ya es tarde
Y tú fallaste
Pero ya es tarde
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo (oye, mami)
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo (presea)
Presea, dale, presea
Si ya no estamos juntos otra mujer me gardea, ¿sabes?
(Presea, dale) presea
Que pocos son los indios y hay mucha india en la aldea, ¿sabes?
Presea, dale, presea
No dejes pa' mañana lo de hoy que te lo llevan, ma'
Presea, dale, presea
Ahora estás celosa porque otra me desea, ma' (dile)
Yo estoy soltero, mai y tú preseas
Yo saco otra a bailar y tú preseas
Tú comes en to's la'os y me preseas
Si tienes dueño, ma, ¿pa' qué me celas?
(Vamos a dejar esto claro ya, ¿okay?)
¿Cómo tú le dice' Yankee?
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Lo que pasó, pasó
Entre tú y yo
Dale, dale, dale, y dale mambo
Dale mambo, dale mambo, dale
Y dale mambo (duro, duro), y dale mambo
Y dale mambo (duro, duro), y dale mambo
Y dale mambo (duro, duro), y dale mambo
Y dale mambo (suelta), y dale mambo (suelta)
Y dale mambo (suelta), y dale mambo (suelta)
Y dale mambo (suelta), y dale mambo (woh)
Oh, oh, dale mambo
Sandunguea, sandunguea, y dale mambo
Sandunguea, y dale, y dale mambo
Yeah, mucho sandungueo pa' las beautiful ladies
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