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"
Once, there was a Willie, and he could see
That there was a Shorty, and he could see.
You could, you could tell that Shorty wouldn't always be short, so he said "Protect yourself, Shorty, protect yourself"
Once the fever finds your soul
Something else will take control
Something dark and from a bowl
something says to me
But it can be indiscreet
And you tend to overheat
O'er the taste of soft and sweet
something says to me
What can you do when something falls? Walls close from somewhere,close from nowhere, like eyes. Can't, can't think clearly, I can't think, but I can't think clearly. Believe maybe you can, maybe you can help me, Bill. No, Willie, Willie, can you, doggone it, can you, Bill? Can you, Will? Maybe Jay? No, no he's... bye Jay, bye.
I've got this light behind my eyes and, believe me, it tells me what, what to do, but I doubt it: it says that if you can't win then there's no way you can lose; if nature hates both a vacuum then the vacuum cleaner too. Then it laughs. I don't know what this means. What can I do? I don't know.
Love is, love is, love is, ahhhh
Love is, love is, love is, ahhhh
Love is, love is, love is, ahhhh
Love is expectation
Love is explanation
Love is exploitation, ahhh
Somebody's getting somebody happy...
Love is complication
Love is consummation
Love is concentration, ahhh
Oh, goddamn it, I can't...
Love is obligation
Love is insulation
Love is stimulation, ahhh
It's always "Have a good weekend"...
Love is ruination
Love is accusation
Love is navigation, ahhh
Is anybody, is anybody driving? Someone's gotta be, somebody driving? I can't drive, I'm not... is anybody driving? Somebody must be driving. Is anybody, is anybody driving? Is anybody driving at all?
That there was a Shorty, and he could see.
You could, you could tell that Shorty wouldn't always be short, so he said "Protect yourself, Shorty, protect yourself"
Once the fever finds your soul
Something else will take control
Something dark and from a bowl
something says to me
But it can be indiscreet
And you tend to overheat
O'er the taste of soft and sweet
something says to me
What can you do when something falls? Walls close from somewhere,close from nowhere, like eyes. Can't, can't think clearly, I can't think, but I can't think clearly. Believe maybe you can, maybe you can help me, Bill. No, Willie, Willie, can you, doggone it, can you, Bill? Can you, Will? Maybe Jay? No, no he's... bye Jay, bye.
I've got this light behind my eyes and, believe me, it tells me what, what to do, but I doubt it: it says that if you can't win then there's no way you can lose; if nature hates both a vacuum then the vacuum cleaner too. Then it laughs. I don't know what this means. What can I do? I don't know.
Love is, love is, love is, ahhhh
Love is, love is, love is, ahhhh
Love is, love is, love is, ahhhh
Love is expectation
Love is explanation
Love is exploitation, ahhh
Somebody's getting somebody happy...
Love is complication
Love is consummation
Love is concentration, ahhh
Oh, goddamn it, I can't...
Love is obligation
Love is insulation
Love is stimulation, ahhh
It's always "Have a good weekend"...
Love is ruination
Love is accusation
Love is navigation, ahhh
Is anybody, is anybody driving? Someone's gotta be, somebody driving? I can't drive, I'm not... is anybody driving? Somebody must be driving. Is anybody, is anybody driving? Is anybody driving at all?
Lyrics submitted by Imperfect_Stranger
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