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"
And her watermelon smiles in her sunshine dress
With the sticky feet patter and a powerkiss
On a window, in the morning it was cool breeze and Christmas
Like a shock trip stall in the super hero ball
With the wishy wish eyes and the flowers on the wall
It’s a grand thing, a memory, it's the magic in her eyes when she’s killing me
And you, you said it all with your smile
You coaxed me on with your wile
And you wake up in the corner with a grinny grin grin
And a super love friend my...
eyeliner teaser
and how do I do I do I
Do I need you, they all know it’s true
You quote another wink while I’m tripping in the sink
With a quick give a drink as I’m going on the brink
Of a phone call, the after all, the waiting on the master in the last stall
And you, you said it all with your smile
You coaxed me on with your wile
And you wakeup in the corner with a grinny grin grin
And a super love friend my...
eyeliner teaser
and how do I do I do I
Do I need you, they all know it’s true
I’m fine anyway (Ok Ok)
Your love and my play (Ok Ok)
Can anybody tell me why I should sing a watermelon love song?
A watermelon love song...
You touch it on the lips with a quick slip kiss
And the tragic come unzipped as you shoot it from the hip
Of a happy song, a symphony, a seven story drop of gravity
And you, you said it all with your smile
You coaxed me on with your wile
And you wakeup in the corner with a grinny grin grin
And a super love friend my...
eyeliner teaser
and how do I do I do I
Do I need you, they all know it’s true
With the sticky feet patter and a powerkiss
On a window, in the morning it was cool breeze and Christmas
Like a shock trip stall in the super hero ball
With the wishy wish eyes and the flowers on the wall
It’s a grand thing, a memory, it's the magic in her eyes when she’s killing me
And you, you said it all with your smile
You coaxed me on with your wile
And you wake up in the corner with a grinny grin grin
And a super love friend my...
eyeliner teaser
and how do I do I do I
Do I need you, they all know it’s true
You quote another wink while I’m tripping in the sink
With a quick give a drink as I’m going on the brink
Of a phone call, the after all, the waiting on the master in the last stall
And you, you said it all with your smile
You coaxed me on with your wile
And you wakeup in the corner with a grinny grin grin
And a super love friend my...
eyeliner teaser
and how do I do I do I
Do I need you, they all know it’s true
I’m fine anyway (Ok Ok)
Your love and my play (Ok Ok)
Can anybody tell me why I should sing a watermelon love song?
A watermelon love song...
You touch it on the lips with a quick slip kiss
And the tragic come unzipped as you shoot it from the hip
Of a happy song, a symphony, a seven story drop of gravity
And you, you said it all with your smile
You coaxed me on with your wile
And you wakeup in the corner with a grinny grin grin
And a super love friend my...
eyeliner teaser
and how do I do I do I
Do I need you, they all know it’s true
Lyrics submitted by HayzLovesYou
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this isn't a song by them, it was mis-labeled on LimeWire. It's actually by The Katies
pretty much.... still a good song tho