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"
You thought you could use me and go away
You never gave me a clue
I wanted to lose you and throw away
The things you say but don't do
You lied to me about the way you feel and
I know what I saw and I know what's real
It's sad you're hurting yourself with me but
You don't even know who you are
You can run but you can't hide
You were not a nice guy
With words like sugar you're not so sweet
Don't bother me just say you're sorry
Stop calling me don't cyber me
Just say you're sorry stop blaming me
Quit calling me just say you're sorry
I don't need your charity just save yourself
Can't change history and everything you
(something)
Why should I be really lying when
You can't even say what you think?
Afraid of girls and afraid of girls' chests
Everything you said had to be a (something)
Trapped by a girl who can travel the world
But she can't (something) these men
You can run but you can't hide
You were not a nice guy
With words like sugar you're not so sweet
Don't bother me just say you're sorry
Stop calling me don't cyber me
Just say you're sorry stop blaming me
Quit calling me just say you're sorry
I don't need your charity just save yourself
You laugh at me when I cried to you and
You couldn't spare me a cent
Deserving of your agony when
I couldn't even pay the rent
I wasn't all up and participating
Taking it over now it's too late
Tell me you still want to be friends
But I don't even know who you are
You can run but you can't hide
You were not a nice guy
With words like sugar you're not so sweet
Don't bother me just say you're sorry
Stop calling me don't cyber me
Just say you're sorry stop blaming me
Quit calling me just say you're sorry
I don't need your charity just save yourself
You never gave me a clue
I wanted to lose you and throw away
The things you say but don't do
You lied to me about the way you feel and
I know what I saw and I know what's real
It's sad you're hurting yourself with me but
You don't even know who you are
You can run but you can't hide
You were not a nice guy
With words like sugar you're not so sweet
Don't bother me just say you're sorry
Stop calling me don't cyber me
Just say you're sorry stop blaming me
Quit calling me just say you're sorry
I don't need your charity just save yourself
Can't change history and everything you
(something)
Why should I be really lying when
You can't even say what you think?
Afraid of girls and afraid of girls' chests
Everything you said had to be a (something)
Trapped by a girl who can travel the world
But she can't (something) these men
You can run but you can't hide
You were not a nice guy
With words like sugar you're not so sweet
Don't bother me just say you're sorry
Stop calling me don't cyber me
Just say you're sorry stop blaming me
Quit calling me just say you're sorry
I don't need your charity just save yourself
You laugh at me when I cried to you and
You couldn't spare me a cent
Deserving of your agony when
I couldn't even pay the rent
I wasn't all up and participating
Taking it over now it's too late
Tell me you still want to be friends
But I don't even know who you are
You can run but you can't hide
You were not a nice guy
With words like sugar you're not so sweet
Don't bother me just say you're sorry
Stop calling me don't cyber me
Just say you're sorry stop blaming me
Quit calling me just say you're sorry
I don't need your charity just save yourself
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Yah, so I'm an idiot (how ironic with the song title!) and i jsut figured out it's saying 'I don't want your charity', not my little [something].
Oh yes, the meaning and such.
To me, a guy used her and made her fell like shit, and then desperately wants her to still be his.
[I can really relate. I hate you, Jon...]
Anywho, I'm confused by the words "Afraid of girls and afraid of girls' chests". I mean, perhaps I misheard, but I'm fairly sure that's right. I find it to be humorous, actually.