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"
[Verse 1:]
I messed around, fell in love
I found myself in a dilemma
From the roses and clothes you bring me
I know it was kind of clingy
And I know you're thinkin'
You've been waitin' for a love with a heart so tender
And I got blanket in the winter
To cover you and keep u warm
But I don't feel covered (I don't)
I'm feeling smothered (I know)
Then I shudder (Ohh...)
Like I'm under water
[Chorus:]
Don't wanna suffocate
Baby baby lemme breathe a minute
I'm givin you the jingle with me, for once Baby don't.
Suffocate, baby baby don't be greedy
Cover me, don't hover me
No, no, Don't suffocate me
Baby, no, no, Don't suffocate me
Baby, no, no, Don't suffocate me
[Verse 2:]
I took the gifts, I took the car
Fancy parties on my birthday (birthday)
Couldn't get up the nerve to refuse you,
I don't have the heart to use you (I don't)
But the more you try to draw me in
Feel like the walls are closin' on me
I used to love the way you hold me (me)
I said don't ever let me go
But I don't fell covered (I don't) (I don't feel covered...)
I'm feeling smothered (I know),
Then I shudder (Ohhh...)
Like I'm under water (Ohhh...)
[Chorus:]
Don't wanna suffocate
Baby baby lemme breathe a minute
I'm givin you the jingle with me, for once baby don't
Suffocate, Baby baby don't be greedy
Cover me, don't hover me
No, no, don't suffocate me
Baby, no, no, Don't suffocate me
Baby, no, no, Don't suffocate me
[Baby, baby lemme breathe]
Baby, no, no, Don't suffocate me
Baby, no, no, Don't suffocate me
[Bridge:]
If you want the best of me
You gotta stop pressin' me
Back up and just let me breathe (uh huh, uh huh)
Don't wanna upset you babe
Just tryin' to communicate
You gotta let me breathe
(Ooohhh...yeah) (uh huh, uh huh)
If you want the best of me
You gotta stop pressin' me
Back up and just let me breathe
[gotta let me breathe baby] (uh huh, uh huh)
Don't wanna upset you babe
Just tryin' to communicate (oh yeah...)
You gotta let me breathe (uh huh, uh huh)
[Chorus:]
Don't wanna suffocate
Baby baby lemme breathe a minute
I'm givin you the jingle with me, for once Baby don't.
Suffocate, baby baby don't be greedy [Baby don't cha]
Cover me, don't hover me
No, no, Don't suffocate me
Baby, no, no, don't suffocate me
Baby, no, no, don't suffocate me (don't suffocate me)
Baby, no, no, don't suffocate me (don't suffocate me... yeah)
Baby, no, no, don't suffocate me...
I messed around, fell in love
I found myself in a dilemma
From the roses and clothes you bring me
I know it was kind of clingy
And I know you're thinkin'
You've been waitin' for a love with a heart so tender
And I got blanket in the winter
To cover you and keep u warm
But I don't feel covered (I don't)
I'm feeling smothered (I know)
Then I shudder (Ohh...)
Like I'm under water
[Chorus:]
Don't wanna suffocate
Baby baby lemme breathe a minute
I'm givin you the jingle with me, for once Baby don't.
Suffocate, baby baby don't be greedy
Cover me, don't hover me
No, no, Don't suffocate me
Baby, no, no, Don't suffocate me
Baby, no, no, Don't suffocate me
[Verse 2:]
I took the gifts, I took the car
Fancy parties on my birthday (birthday)
Couldn't get up the nerve to refuse you,
I don't have the heart to use you (I don't)
But the more you try to draw me in
Feel like the walls are closin' on me
I used to love the way you hold me (me)
I said don't ever let me go
But I don't fell covered (I don't) (I don't feel covered...)
I'm feeling smothered (I know),
Then I shudder (Ohhh...)
Like I'm under water (Ohhh...)
[Chorus:]
Don't wanna suffocate
Baby baby lemme breathe a minute
I'm givin you the jingle with me, for once baby don't
Suffocate, Baby baby don't be greedy
Cover me, don't hover me
No, no, don't suffocate me
Baby, no, no, Don't suffocate me
Baby, no, no, Don't suffocate me
[Baby, baby lemme breathe]
Baby, no, no, Don't suffocate me
Baby, no, no, Don't suffocate me
[Bridge:]
If you want the best of me
You gotta stop pressin' me
Back up and just let me breathe (uh huh, uh huh)
Don't wanna upset you babe
Just tryin' to communicate
You gotta let me breathe
(Ooohhh...yeah) (uh huh, uh huh)
If you want the best of me
You gotta stop pressin' me
Back up and just let me breathe
[gotta let me breathe baby] (uh huh, uh huh)
Don't wanna upset you babe
Just tryin' to communicate (oh yeah...)
You gotta let me breathe (uh huh, uh huh)
[Chorus:]
Don't wanna suffocate
Baby baby lemme breathe a minute
I'm givin you the jingle with me, for once Baby don't.
Suffocate, baby baby don't be greedy [Baby don't cha]
Cover me, don't hover me
No, no, Don't suffocate me
Baby, no, no, don't suffocate me
Baby, no, no, don't suffocate me (don't suffocate me)
Baby, no, no, don't suffocate me (don't suffocate me... yeah)
Baby, no, no, don't suffocate me...
Lyrics submitted by BasedDiosa
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