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"
Girl, I'm a sexually attractive man. That makes me a good artist. This is my new single. I hope you like it.
Wealthy men hired me
to sing this song that they wrote for me
They're investing in this pricey music video
and they're paying to get it played on the radio (on the radio)
And they're gonna sell a million (a million)
Yes, it's gonna go platinum
[Chorus]:
'Cause they market this song to young, impressionable, and insecure teenage girls
'Cause all you gotta say is "ooh baby, I love you" and "girl, I need you in my world"
Yes, they market this song to young, impressionable, and insecure teenage girls
'Cause all they gotta do is find a sexually attractive man that can sing all the words
And now the token rap verse that doesn't make any sense but helps to get a small percentage of the urban music market.
Hey baby, baby, I can tell that you are crazy, crazy
Shake that ass, girl, my rhymes are gettin' lazy, lazy
These things I'm talking 'bout have nothin' to do with the song, baby
But it don't matter; won't you show me that thong, baby?
That's how it works in the pop music industry
2009, motherfucker, that's just how it be
[Chorus]
Now I'm singin' with my gay voice
to let you know that I am sensitive
Oh yeah, I'm singin' with my gay voice
Teenage girls love a sensitive voice
and you know I wanna
Make money, money, make money, money, make money (x4)
Rich men makin' money off of their investment
Ooh, it's so sexual, baby
Girl, I love you so much. I wish we could be together. Unfortunately, we can't, because I'm rich and famous and you're not... but why don't you just go out and buy my album? And tell your friends about it too, so that they also go out and buy it.
Wealthy men hired me
to sing this song that they wrote for me
They're investing in this pricey music video
and they're paying to get it played on the radio (on the radio)
And they're gonna sell a million (a million)
Yes, it's gonna go platinum
[Chorus]:
'Cause they market this song to young, impressionable, and insecure teenage girls
'Cause all you gotta say is "ooh baby, I love you" and "girl, I need you in my world"
Yes, they market this song to young, impressionable, and insecure teenage girls
'Cause all they gotta do is find a sexually attractive man that can sing all the words
And now the token rap verse that doesn't make any sense but helps to get a small percentage of the urban music market.
Hey baby, baby, I can tell that you are crazy, crazy
Shake that ass, girl, my rhymes are gettin' lazy, lazy
These things I'm talking 'bout have nothin' to do with the song, baby
But it don't matter; won't you show me that thong, baby?
That's how it works in the pop music industry
2009, motherfucker, that's just how it be
[Chorus]
Now I'm singin' with my gay voice
to let you know that I am sensitive
Oh yeah, I'm singin' with my gay voice
Teenage girls love a sensitive voice
and you know I wanna
Make money, money, make money, money, make money (x4)
Rich men makin' money off of their investment
Ooh, it's so sexual, baby
Girl, I love you so much. I wish we could be together. Unfortunately, we can't, because I'm rich and famous and you're not... but why don't you just go out and buy my album? And tell your friends about it too, so that they also go out and buy it.
Lyrics submitted by oeheaven
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Omgz this is lyk my fav nu song! Its so tru and Jon's propa fittt n talented <333 Im his no1 fan! (Tho I dunno wat else he sings!) Luv him 2! :) :)
^ Average Pop Fangirl's Comment But I actually do love Jon :D