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"
Let's take this back 2005
Drinks are pouring, girls so fine
So many dimes got dollar signs
And there she goes
Right on the spot
Got a taste so sweet
I swear this beat will make you wanna drop
She wears a new dress everyday
No, she won't stop making the crowds scream
I can't hear anything
But hey, it's Miss LA again, again
(Chelsea, Chelsea) tell me you love me
(Chelsea, Chelsea) are you feeling me now?
(Chelsea, Chelsea) I think its about time we get down
Get down, I want more
I wrote her a song
Not Delilah, not Kelsey
Had them both in my palm, but I dropped them for Chelsea
Hey, hey, what'd you say?
You've been looking good today
Let's go out on the town and I'll tell the girls that I'm taken
(Chelsea, Chelsea) tell me you love me
(Chelsea, Chelsea) are you feeling me now?
(Chelsea, Chelsea) I think its about time we get down
Get down, there ain't no stopping us now
Get down, get down, I want more
And if it's worth your time
I've got ten digits I'd like you to find
But, no, I won't get that call
You've got so much to give, I've got nothing at all
Chelsea, Chelsea tell me you love me
Chelsea, Chelsea are you feeling me now?
Chelsea, Chelsea I think its about time we get down
Get down, there ain't no stopping us now
Get down, get down
I want more
(Chelsea, Chelsea) tell me you love me
(Chelsea, Chelsea) are you feeling me now?
(Chelsea, Chelsea) I think its about time we get down
Get down, there ain't no stopping us now
(Chelsea, Chelsea) tell me you love me
(Chelsea, Chelsea) are you feeling me now?
(Chelsea, Chelsea) I think its about time we get down
Get down, there ain't no stopping us now
Get down, get down
I want more
Drinks are pouring, girls so fine
So many dimes got dollar signs
And there she goes
Right on the spot
Got a taste so sweet
I swear this beat will make you wanna drop
She wears a new dress everyday
No, she won't stop making the crowds scream
I can't hear anything
But hey, it's Miss LA again, again
(Chelsea, Chelsea) tell me you love me
(Chelsea, Chelsea) are you feeling me now?
(Chelsea, Chelsea) I think its about time we get down
Get down, I want more
I wrote her a song
Not Delilah, not Kelsey
Had them both in my palm, but I dropped them for Chelsea
Hey, hey, what'd you say?
You've been looking good today
Let's go out on the town and I'll tell the girls that I'm taken
(Chelsea, Chelsea) tell me you love me
(Chelsea, Chelsea) are you feeling me now?
(Chelsea, Chelsea) I think its about time we get down
Get down, there ain't no stopping us now
Get down, get down, I want more
And if it's worth your time
I've got ten digits I'd like you to find
But, no, I won't get that call
You've got so much to give, I've got nothing at all
Chelsea, Chelsea tell me you love me
Chelsea, Chelsea are you feeling me now?
Chelsea, Chelsea I think its about time we get down
Get down, there ain't no stopping us now
Get down, get down
I want more
(Chelsea, Chelsea) tell me you love me
(Chelsea, Chelsea) are you feeling me now?
(Chelsea, Chelsea) I think its about time we get down
Get down, there ain't no stopping us now
(Chelsea, Chelsea) tell me you love me
(Chelsea, Chelsea) are you feeling me now?
(Chelsea, Chelsea) I think its about time we get down
Get down, there ain't no stopping us now
Get down, get down
I want more
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I was just about to post the same comment. I noticed the Delilah reference immediately, but couldn't remember where Kelsey came from until just a minute ago.