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"
Call up, ring once, hang up the phone.
To let me know you made it home.
Don't want nothing to be wrong with part-time lover.
If she's with me I'll blink the lights.
To let you know tonight's the night.
For me and you my part-time lover.
We are undercover passions on the run,
Chasing love up against the sun.
We are strangers by day, lovers by night.
Knowing it's so wrong, feeling so right.
If I'm with friends and we should meet.
Just pass me by, don't even speak.
Know the word's "discreet" when part-time lovers.
But if there's some emergency.
Have a male friend to ask for me.
Then she won't seem to be my part-time lover.
We are undercover passions on the run,
Chasing love up against the sun.
We are strangers by day, lovers by night.
Knowing it's so wrong, feeling so right.
I've got something that I should tell.
Last night someone rang our doorbell.
It was not you, part-time lover.
And then a man called our exchange.
But did not want to leave his name.
Two can play the game of part-time lovers.
We are undercover passions on the run.
Chasing love up against the sun.
We are strangers by day, lovers by night.
Knowing it's so wrong, feeling so right.
To let me know you made it home.
Don't want nothing to be wrong with part-time lover.
If she's with me I'll blink the lights.
To let you know tonight's the night.
For me and you my part-time lover.
We are undercover passions on the run,
Chasing love up against the sun.
We are strangers by day, lovers by night.
Knowing it's so wrong, feeling so right.
If I'm with friends and we should meet.
Just pass me by, don't even speak.
Know the word's "discreet" when part-time lovers.
But if there's some emergency.
Have a male friend to ask for me.
Then she won't seem to be my part-time lover.
We are undercover passions on the run,
Chasing love up against the sun.
We are strangers by day, lovers by night.
Knowing it's so wrong, feeling so right.
I've got something that I should tell.
Last night someone rang our doorbell.
It was not you, part-time lover.
And then a man called our exchange.
But did not want to leave his name.
Two can play the game of part-time lovers.
We are undercover passions on the run.
Chasing love up against the sun.
We are strangers by day, lovers by night.
Knowing it's so wrong, feeling so right.
Lyrics submitted by kevins267
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i think this song is awesome too
i'm in the same sorta relationship so this song has a lot of meaning to me...pretty straight forward meaning
copeland is the shit