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"
Whatcha been doing?
Whatcha been doing?
Whoa, whoa
Haven't seen you around
How you been feeling?
How you been feeling?
Whoa, whoa
Don't you bring me down
All that stuff about me
Being with him can't believe
All the lies that you told
Just to ease your own soul
But I'm bigger than that
No you don't have my back
No, no, ha
Hey how long 'til the music drowns you out?
Don't put words up in my mouth
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Hey how long 'til you face what's going on?
'Cause you really got it wrong
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Well, I'm sorry (I'm sorry) that he called me
And that I answered the telephone
Don't be worried, I'm not with him
And when I go out tonight, I'm going home alone
Just got back from my tour
I'm a mess girl for sure
All I want is some fun
Guess that I better run
Hollywood sucks you in
But it won't spit me out
Whoa, whoa, ha
Hey how long 'til the music drowns you out?
Don't put words up in my mouth
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Hey how long 'til you face what's going on?
'Cause you really got it wrong
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Hey how long 'til you look at your own life
'Stead of looking into mine?
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Hey how long 'til you're leaving me alone?
Don't you got somewhere to go?
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Whoa, whoa, whoa, ha
Whoa, whoa, whoa, ha
Please stop telling all your friends
I'm getting sick of them
Always staring at me
Like I took him from ya
Hey how long 'til the music drowns you out?
Don't put words up in my mouth
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Hey how long 'til you face what's going on?
'Cause you really got it wrong
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Hey how long 'til you look at your own life
'Stead of looking into mine?
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Hey how long 'til you're leaving me alone?
Don't you got somewhere to go?
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Whoa, whoa, whoa (ha)
Whoa, I didn't steal your boyfriend
Whoa, whoa, whoa (ha)
Whoa, I didn't steal your boyfriend
Whatcha been doing?
Whoa, whoa
Haven't seen you around
How you been feeling?
How you been feeling?
Whoa, whoa
Don't you bring me down
All that stuff about me
Being with him can't believe
All the lies that you told
Just to ease your own soul
But I'm bigger than that
No you don't have my back
No, no, ha
Hey how long 'til the music drowns you out?
Don't put words up in my mouth
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Hey how long 'til you face what's going on?
'Cause you really got it wrong
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Well, I'm sorry (I'm sorry) that he called me
And that I answered the telephone
Don't be worried, I'm not with him
And when I go out tonight, I'm going home alone
Just got back from my tour
I'm a mess girl for sure
All I want is some fun
Guess that I better run
Hollywood sucks you in
But it won't spit me out
Whoa, whoa, ha
Hey how long 'til the music drowns you out?
Don't put words up in my mouth
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Hey how long 'til you face what's going on?
'Cause you really got it wrong
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Hey how long 'til you look at your own life
'Stead of looking into mine?
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Hey how long 'til you're leaving me alone?
Don't you got somewhere to go?
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Whoa, whoa, whoa, ha
Whoa, whoa, whoa, ha
Please stop telling all your friends
I'm getting sick of them
Always staring at me
Like I took him from ya
Hey how long 'til the music drowns you out?
Don't put words up in my mouth
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Hey how long 'til you face what's going on?
'Cause you really got it wrong
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Hey how long 'til you look at your own life
'Stead of looking into mine?
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Hey how long 'til you're leaving me alone?
Don't you got somewhere to go?
I didn't steal your boyfriend
Whoa, whoa, whoa (ha)
Whoa, I didn't steal your boyfriend
Whoa, whoa, whoa (ha)
Whoa, I didn't steal your boyfriend
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