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"
From the first time I saw you
Well I thought that we'd be cool
But I over estimated us boy
(You boy, you boy)
'Cause we started out as friends
And I thought that'd never end
Even when we turned into more
And we moved into the fast lane
(Fast lane)
Boy we just collided in the fast lane
(Fast lane)
And even though we tried it, we got no place
(We're going no place)
And there's no going back for us now
(No way)
I think it's time we set things straight
'Cause
I'm not your girl
(No, not your girl)
Don't get confused because you see me looking at you
No baby
I'm not your girl
(No, not your girl)
And I'm not leaving with you just because you asked me to
No, no
I know you want me but it's just too late
Don't try and stop me or get in my way
Don't you look at me like that
It don't matter how you act
You and me are now in the past
And when I see you walking by
Don't be surprised if I say hi
But it won't be anymore than just that
Not moving down the fast lane
Boy we just collided in the fast lane
(Fast lane)
Even though we tried it, we got no place
(We kept going no place)
And there's no going back for us now
(No way)
I think it's time we set things straight
'Cause
I'm not your girl
(No, not your girl)
Don't get confused because you see me looking at you
No baby
I'm not your girl
(No, not your girl)
And I'm not leaving with you just because you asked me to
No, no
I know you want me but it's just too late
Don't try to stop me or get in my way
I know you want me but it's just too late
Don't try to stop me or get in my way
You should have thought about the way that you treated me
You should have thought about the things that you said to me
I should have walked away the first time I saw your face
Was so distracted, nearly lost it in the fast lane
I'm not your girl (not your girl)
(No, not your girl)
Don't get confused because you see me looking at you (at you)
No baby
I'm not your girl
(No, not your girl)
And I'm not leaving with you just because you asked me to
No, no
I know you want me but it's just too late (for us)
Don't try to stop me or get in my way (get in my way)
I know you want me but it's just too late (just too late)
Don't try to stop me or get in my way (don't you try and get in my way)
(Ooh, yeah)
Well I thought that we'd be cool
But I over estimated us boy
(You boy, you boy)
'Cause we started out as friends
And I thought that'd never end
Even when we turned into more
And we moved into the fast lane
(Fast lane)
Boy we just collided in the fast lane
(Fast lane)
And even though we tried it, we got no place
(We're going no place)
And there's no going back for us now
(No way)
I think it's time we set things straight
'Cause
I'm not your girl
(No, not your girl)
Don't get confused because you see me looking at you
No baby
I'm not your girl
(No, not your girl)
And I'm not leaving with you just because you asked me to
No, no
I know you want me but it's just too late
Don't try and stop me or get in my way
Don't you look at me like that
It don't matter how you act
You and me are now in the past
And when I see you walking by
Don't be surprised if I say hi
But it won't be anymore than just that
Not moving down the fast lane
Boy we just collided in the fast lane
(Fast lane)
Even though we tried it, we got no place
(We kept going no place)
And there's no going back for us now
(No way)
I think it's time we set things straight
'Cause
I'm not your girl
(No, not your girl)
Don't get confused because you see me looking at you
No baby
I'm not your girl
(No, not your girl)
And I'm not leaving with you just because you asked me to
No, no
I know you want me but it's just too late
Don't try to stop me or get in my way
I know you want me but it's just too late
Don't try to stop me or get in my way
You should have thought about the way that you treated me
You should have thought about the things that you said to me
I should have walked away the first time I saw your face
Was so distracted, nearly lost it in the fast lane
I'm not your girl (not your girl)
(No, not your girl)
Don't get confused because you see me looking at you (at you)
No baby
I'm not your girl
(No, not your girl)
And I'm not leaving with you just because you asked me to
No, no
I know you want me but it's just too late (for us)
Don't try to stop me or get in my way (get in my way)
I know you want me but it's just too late (just too late)
Don't try to stop me or get in my way (don't you try and get in my way)
(Ooh, yeah)
Lyrics submitted by Shirley Parker
Not Ur Girl Lyrics as written by Corte O. Ellis Corte Ellis
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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