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"
Such a crime
I don't remember being taken
This love was meant for
Wandering eyes and fakin'
So hot the way you looking
And when he's on it, man he's running and he's booking
Didn't know what to think in the beginning
But you got me so wet
And then you left me swimming
Keep it coming with the love I can't resist
I'm so tired but don't you dare quit
'Cause it's a lie, it's a crime and it's just something
That I can't deny but
You know it looks so good from the outside
It's a mistake that I'm willing to make
And a promise that I just might break but
Gotta find out how much my heart can take
From the moment I met you
I knew this love was bound to get you
Well I know I know I know you're weak that way
Looking out the window and it's only the beginning
People are talking
And my ears start ringing
But I don't care what they say
Cause they'll never know me anyway
'Cause it's a lie, it's a crime and it's just something
That I can't deny but
You know it looks so good from the outside
It's a mistake that I'm willing to make
And a promise that I just might break
Gotta find out how much my heart can take
And I know what he wants
And I know what he needs
I got the type of love
That's gonna bring you right down to your knees
Bring you right down to your knees
I'm begging you oh please
I want to be the lover
For your cover
How could you deny
This love so great
Love so grand
If you don't understand
That this love will take you make you
It'll mess you maybe break you
But it'll leave you stronger in the end
And I guess it all depends
'Cause it's a lie, it's a crime, and it's just something that I can't deny
You know it looks so good from the outside
It's a mistake that I'm willing to make
And a promise that I just might break but
Gotta find out how much my heart can take
Now I'm beggin' ya pleaseâ?¦
I don't remember being taken
This love was meant for
Wandering eyes and fakin'
So hot the way you looking
And when he's on it, man he's running and he's booking
Didn't know what to think in the beginning
But you got me so wet
And then you left me swimming
Keep it coming with the love I can't resist
I'm so tired but don't you dare quit
'Cause it's a lie, it's a crime and it's just something
That I can't deny but
You know it looks so good from the outside
It's a mistake that I'm willing to make
And a promise that I just might break but
Gotta find out how much my heart can take
From the moment I met you
I knew this love was bound to get you
Well I know I know I know you're weak that way
Looking out the window and it's only the beginning
People are talking
And my ears start ringing
But I don't care what they say
Cause they'll never know me anyway
'Cause it's a lie, it's a crime and it's just something
That I can't deny but
You know it looks so good from the outside
It's a mistake that I'm willing to make
And a promise that I just might break
Gotta find out how much my heart can take
And I know what he wants
And I know what he needs
I got the type of love
That's gonna bring you right down to your knees
Bring you right down to your knees
I'm begging you oh please
I want to be the lover
For your cover
How could you deny
This love so great
Love so grand
If you don't understand
That this love will take you make you
It'll mess you maybe break you
But it'll leave you stronger in the end
And I guess it all depends
'Cause it's a lie, it's a crime, and it's just something that I can't deny
You know it looks so good from the outside
It's a mistake that I'm willing to make
And a promise that I just might break but
Gotta find out how much my heart can take
Now I'm beggin' ya pleaseâ?¦
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