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"
Had a white and black shar pei
I don't know when we first got him
Should have taken better care of him
For he added ok
Sorry when I get unruly
When you carry on so much I get a little tired
Hope you get over your teething
It's not easy when you feel sick
Had to sprightly walk you like him
When he peed up all on your side
Grab your bed cast what he told us
Me and Michael dared each other like we were posited
Derek never woke up at night
And he don't move when he's ready to go
And he never had a voice like you
To scream when he wanted something
Should have been so much more willing
To have out with all the things that Michael needed
Whoop-de-doo, whoop-de-doo
See what it is, see what it is
See inside of the eye, of the eye
See inside of the eye, of the eye
You can die, you can die
When you get, when you get
What you know, what you know
Count on me, count on me
Whoop-de-doo, whoop-de-doo
See what it is, see what it is
See inside of the eye, of the eye
See inside of the eye, of the eye
I don't know when we first got him
Should have taken better care of him
For he added ok
Sorry when I get unruly
When you carry on so much I get a little tired
Hope you get over your teething
It's not easy when you feel sick
Had to sprightly walk you like him
When he peed up all on your side
Grab your bed cast what he told us
Me and Michael dared each other like we were posited
Derek never woke up at night
And he don't move when he's ready to go
And he never had a voice like you
To scream when he wanted something
Should have been so much more willing
To have out with all the things that Michael needed
Whoop-de-doo, whoop-de-doo
See what it is, see what it is
See inside of the eye, of the eye
See inside of the eye, of the eye
You can die, you can die
When you get, when you get
What you know, what you know
Count on me, count on me
Whoop-de-doo, whoop-de-doo
See what it is, see what it is
See inside of the eye, of the eye
See inside of the eye, of the eye
Lyrics submitted by erolsabadosh, edited by UncleHuggedMeFunny
Derek Lyrics as written by David Michael Portner Brian Ross Weitz
Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
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