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"
Te tomo la mano y no siento tu mano
Nos damos un beso y no siento tus labios
En tus ojos no luce el azul del cielo
Te miro y lo que veo me parece extraño
Cuando se abre la puerta
No me late el corazón
Si en la noche te encuentro
Ya no pierdo la razón
Cuando estoy a tu lado no se me
Acelera el pulso
Tus caricias y abrazos ya no me queman
Cambia la piel y liberarte
De ese viejo amor que te hizo sufrir
Cambia la piel y límpiate
Todo ese rencor que no te haré bien
Volvieron los recuerdos que tanto
Te hicieron mal
Volvió la tristeza que te oprimí el alma
Y la amistad y el cariño que tanto
Nos unió
Cayeron en las redes de la desconfianza
Ya no tiembla tu cuerpo cuando
Hacemos el amor
Y a pesar del tiempo
Parece que nada sucedió
La complicidad que
Antes hubo entre los dos
Se subió a una paloma
Y se fue volando
Repetir coro
Cambia la piel y olvídate
Del resentimiento que ensucia
Tu sangre
Cambia la piel, cierra la herida
Que se abrió aquel día y que nunca curo
Cambia la piel y convéncete
Que vine por ti para hacerte feliz
Cambia la piel y llámame
Olvídate de ese viejo amor
Cambia la piel olvídate ya
Cambia la piel y cambia la piel
Y olvídate de ese viejo amor
Cambia la piel
Libérate, libérate
Cambia la piel
Cambia la piel
Y libérate
Cambia la piel
Oh, oh, libérate
Cambia la piel
Cambia la piel
Y libérate
Cambia la piel
Oh, oh, libérate
Nos damos un beso y no siento tus labios
En tus ojos no luce el azul del cielo
Te miro y lo que veo me parece extraño
Cuando se abre la puerta
No me late el corazón
Si en la noche te encuentro
Ya no pierdo la razón
Cuando estoy a tu lado no se me
Acelera el pulso
Tus caricias y abrazos ya no me queman
Cambia la piel y liberarte
De ese viejo amor que te hizo sufrir
Cambia la piel y límpiate
Todo ese rencor que no te haré bien
Volvieron los recuerdos que tanto
Te hicieron mal
Volvió la tristeza que te oprimí el alma
Y la amistad y el cariño que tanto
Nos unió
Cayeron en las redes de la desconfianza
Ya no tiembla tu cuerpo cuando
Hacemos el amor
Y a pesar del tiempo
Parece que nada sucedió
La complicidad que
Antes hubo entre los dos
Se subió a una paloma
Y se fue volando
Repetir coro
Cambia la piel y olvídate
Del resentimiento que ensucia
Tu sangre
Cambia la piel, cierra la herida
Que se abrió aquel día y que nunca curo
Cambia la piel y convéncete
Que vine por ti para hacerte feliz
Cambia la piel y llámame
Olvídate de ese viejo amor
Cambia la piel olvídate ya
Cambia la piel y cambia la piel
Y olvídate de ese viejo amor
Cambia la piel
Libérate, libérate
Cambia la piel
Cambia la piel
Y libérate
Cambia la piel
Oh, oh, libérate
Cambia la piel
Cambia la piel
Y libérate
Cambia la piel
Oh, oh, libérate
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