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"
Every time I watch you
Gotta switch you off, you surely can`t be serious
Every time I see you
I just can`t believe you go below ridiculous
All those days I spent
Starin` at your wilderness
All those ways you got to me
Through me, you, you leave me speechless
You, you make me scared of you
You make me scared of losing concentration
You make me afraid of you
Make me afraid of losing conversation
All my friends say that you`re forbidden - fruitless
I hide away with you - I`m guilty - I`m guilty
You found my only weakness
You, you leave me speechless
Entertainment came and went
Why can`t you be more curious, adventurous, mysterious, sensuous
Your remote control
Is sending out patrols, I`ve go consumer sadness
Spray me - camouflage me - blind me
So I can`t see, help me through this madness
All those years I spent
Clingin` to your warm breast
All those words
I don`t think I guess
Gotta get you off my chest - you pest
You, you leave me speechless
Gotta switch you off, you surely can`t be serious
Every time I see you
I just can`t believe you go below ridiculous
All those days I spent
Starin` at your wilderness
All those ways you got to me
Through me, you, you leave me speechless
You, you make me scared of you
You make me scared of losing concentration
You make me afraid of you
Make me afraid of losing conversation
All my friends say that you`re forbidden - fruitless
I hide away with you - I`m guilty - I`m guilty
You found my only weakness
You, you leave me speechless
Entertainment came and went
Why can`t you be more curious, adventurous, mysterious, sensuous
Your remote control
Is sending out patrols, I`ve go consumer sadness
Spray me - camouflage me - blind me
So I can`t see, help me through this madness
All those years I spent
Clingin` to your warm breast
All those words
I don`t think I guess
Gotta get you off my chest - you pest
You, you leave me speechless
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
Speechless Lyrics as written by Ian Hunter
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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