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"
The ultimate pleasure's givin' pleasure
Yeah, I'm a Taurus
They say that we're patient lovers
But you're Aries
Are you a Scorpio, you're Cancer or Capricorn?
Or a cusp? Cool
If you should feel thirsty
I'll be sure to bring you water
Yes, girl, I got candles
That will slow burn longer
And I know your favorite love song
And how you like it on repeat
Me, I was born a patient lover
So I'll start with your feet
It would be like when hearts beat as one
It would feel like no ordinary kiss
You and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life
If you would feel like when hearts beat as one
It would be like no ordinary love
You and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life
I'll do my best to inspire you
To dream of us till we meet again
You may even be encouraged
To take a walk so we can love again
The most high outdid herself
When she created you
And girl, I am thankful
For how our love has bloomed
It would be like when hearts beat as one
It would feel like no ordinary kiss
You and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life
If you would feel like when hearts beat as one
It would be like no ordinary love
For you and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life
Picture us makin' love
Picture us makin' love
Picture us makin' love
Baby, close your eyes
Picture
It would be like when hearts beat as one
It would feel like no ordinary kiss
You and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life
If you would feel like when hearts beat as one
It would be like no ordinary love
For you and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life
It would be like when hearts beat as one
It would feel like no ordinary kiss
You and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life
If you would feel like when hearts beat as one
It would be like no ordinary love
For you and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life
It would be like when hearts beat as one
It would feel like no ordinary kiss
You and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life
If you would feel like when hearts beat as one
It would be like no ordinary love
For you and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life into our love
Yeah, I'm a Taurus
They say that we're patient lovers
But you're Aries
Are you a Scorpio, you're Cancer or Capricorn?
Or a cusp? Cool
If you should feel thirsty
I'll be sure to bring you water
Yes, girl, I got candles
That will slow burn longer
And I know your favorite love song
And how you like it on repeat
Me, I was born a patient lover
So I'll start with your feet
It would be like when hearts beat as one
It would feel like no ordinary kiss
You and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life
If you would feel like when hearts beat as one
It would be like no ordinary love
You and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life
I'll do my best to inspire you
To dream of us till we meet again
You may even be encouraged
To take a walk so we can love again
The most high outdid herself
When she created you
And girl, I am thankful
For how our love has bloomed
It would be like when hearts beat as one
It would feel like no ordinary kiss
You and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life
If you would feel like when hearts beat as one
It would be like no ordinary love
For you and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life
Picture us makin' love
Picture us makin' love
Picture us makin' love
Baby, close your eyes
Picture
It would be like when hearts beat as one
It would feel like no ordinary kiss
You and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life
If you would feel like when hearts beat as one
It would be like no ordinary love
For you and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life
It would be like when hearts beat as one
It would feel like no ordinary kiss
You and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life
If you would feel like when hearts beat as one
It would be like no ordinary love
For you and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life
It would be like when hearts beat as one
It would feel like no ordinary kiss
You and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life
If you would feel like when hearts beat as one
It would be like no ordinary love
For you and I, now close your eyes
And picture us breathing life into our love
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Definitely a patient lover!!