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"
Has anybody here seen that girl?
She's kinda pretty and she's kinda plain
She don't get out much into the world
But if she's here I'm really really really really glad she came
I gotta know, did you come here for the money?
I gotta know, or did you come here for the show?
I gotta know, did you come to see us fail?
Or did you come here 'cause there's no place left to go
Oh doh doh, doh doh doh, bop bah dah dah dah dah
Oh doh doh, doh doh doh, bop bah dah dah dah dah
Under pressure, a sympathy pain
She shot some NyQuil but it didn't kick in
Don't be spiteful of all beauty and fame
I'm really really really really really glad you're plain
Somebody told me you're talkin' kinda strange
How you love to eat your lamb and you love your lazy days
And you diet on Easter Sunday, eat chiffon Christmas Day
I'm really really really glad you're plain
I gotta know, did you come here for the money?
I gotta know, or did you come here for the show?
I gotta know, did you come to see us fail?
Or did you come here 'cause there's no place left to go
It's so easy to deny it
It's so easy to deny that you tried to be mine
Oh baby, you've been so good to me
Don't make me believe the things you believe
You know I love ya lav ya lav ya lamb I gotta lazy days
But I love the ladies, I love the ladies, I love the ladies, I love the ladies
But I love the ladies, I love the ladies, I love the ladies, I love the ladies
He loves the ladies, he loves the ladies, he loves the ladies, he loves the ladies
He loves the ladies, he loves the ladies, plain
You're so plain, yeah
You're so plain, oh yeah
You're so plain, that's right
You're so plain
I gotta know, did you come here for the money?
I gotta know, or did you come here for the show?
I gotta know, did you come to party with your people?
Or did you come here 'cause there's no place left to go
Oh doh doh, doh doh doh, bop bah dah dah dah dah
Oh doh doh, doh doh doh, bop bah dah dah dah dah
Oh doh doh, doh doh doh, bop bah dah dah dah dah
Oh doh doh, doh doh doh, bop bah dah dah dah dah
Bah
She's kinda pretty and she's kinda plain
She don't get out much into the world
But if she's here I'm really really really really glad she came
I gotta know, did you come here for the money?
I gotta know, or did you come here for the show?
I gotta know, did you come to see us fail?
Or did you come here 'cause there's no place left to go
Oh doh doh, doh doh doh, bop bah dah dah dah dah
Oh doh doh, doh doh doh, bop bah dah dah dah dah
Under pressure, a sympathy pain
She shot some NyQuil but it didn't kick in
Don't be spiteful of all beauty and fame
I'm really really really really really glad you're plain
Somebody told me you're talkin' kinda strange
How you love to eat your lamb and you love your lazy days
And you diet on Easter Sunday, eat chiffon Christmas Day
I'm really really really glad you're plain
I gotta know, did you come here for the money?
I gotta know, or did you come here for the show?
I gotta know, did you come to see us fail?
Or did you come here 'cause there's no place left to go
It's so easy to deny it
It's so easy to deny that you tried to be mine
Oh baby, you've been so good to me
Don't make me believe the things you believe
You know I love ya lav ya lav ya lamb I gotta lazy days
But I love the ladies, I love the ladies, I love the ladies, I love the ladies
But I love the ladies, I love the ladies, I love the ladies, I love the ladies
He loves the ladies, he loves the ladies, he loves the ladies, he loves the ladies
He loves the ladies, he loves the ladies, plain
You're so plain, yeah
You're so plain, oh yeah
You're so plain, that's right
You're so plain
I gotta know, did you come here for the money?
I gotta know, or did you come here for the show?
I gotta know, did you come to party with your people?
Or did you come here 'cause there's no place left to go
Oh doh doh, doh doh doh, bop bah dah dah dah dah
Oh doh doh, doh doh doh, bop bah dah dah dah dah
Oh doh doh, doh doh doh, bop bah dah dah dah dah
Oh doh doh, doh doh doh, bop bah dah dah dah dah
Bah
Lyrics submitted by doug5574
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