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"
Oh
Yeah-ay-yeah
Mhmm
Letting you go is pretty damn difficult
Cause there was a time I would be for you
What you need for me, I would do what
Whatever to be rolling wit' u
And you know I took it as far as I can go
So I'm a go lay it out right for you
You're not good to me, I know I've been
Blind but I can open my eyes
Cause then I see just what you are
Not for me, I don't why
I wanted you I don't want you
I deny, oh
All that you did and all that you didn't
All that you said and all that you wouldn't
Deny, I deny it
Defy, everything, oh
All that we were and all that we called up
All that you were and all that you made up
Defy, I defy it
I deny everything you are
And everything we were
And everything you are
And everything we were, and I
You took your time
Well baby you should take up all of mine
So when I said you should be you don't question me
When I'm telling you, I don't want you
Hiding up my mind anymore
I don't want you, you can go
Leave my keys and close the door
I don't need somebody like you
I deny oh I deny!
All that you did and all that you didn't
All that you said and all that you wouldn't
Deny, I deny it
Defy, everything. oh you were
All that we were and all that we called up
All that you were and all that you made up
Defy, I defy it
I deny everything you are
And everything we were
And everything you are
And everything we were, and I
Don't tell me
You never thought that we would come to this
Standing here, giving up all that we have been
Whoa! and don't blame me
This is not about what I have done
I've done more, I could do, still we fought
Still you try me, but baby
I deny-I-I!
Woo
All that you did and all that you didn't
All that you said and all that wouldn't
Deny, I deny it
Defy, everything, ohh
I deny it!
All that we were and all that we called up, oh-whoa
All that you were and all that you made up
Defy, I defy it, woo
I deny everything oh
All that you did and all that you made up
All that you said and all that you wouldn't, whoa-oh-oh
Deny, I deny it woo
Defy, everything oh
All that we were and all that we called up
All that you were and all that you made up
Defy, I defy it
I deny everything you are
And everything we were
And everything you were
And everything we were, and I
Whoa-oh
I deny
Yeah-ay-yeah
Mhmm
Letting you go is pretty damn difficult
Cause there was a time I would be for you
What you need for me, I would do what
Whatever to be rolling wit' u
And you know I took it as far as I can go
So I'm a go lay it out right for you
You're not good to me, I know I've been
Blind but I can open my eyes
Cause then I see just what you are
Not for me, I don't why
I wanted you I don't want you
I deny, oh
All that you did and all that you didn't
All that you said and all that you wouldn't
Deny, I deny it
Defy, everything, oh
All that we were and all that we called up
All that you were and all that you made up
Defy, I defy it
I deny everything you are
And everything we were
And everything you are
And everything we were, and I
You took your time
Well baby you should take up all of mine
So when I said you should be you don't question me
When I'm telling you, I don't want you
Hiding up my mind anymore
I don't want you, you can go
Leave my keys and close the door
I don't need somebody like you
I deny oh I deny!
All that you did and all that you didn't
All that you said and all that you wouldn't
Deny, I deny it
Defy, everything. oh you were
All that we were and all that we called up
All that you were and all that you made up
Defy, I defy it
I deny everything you are
And everything we were
And everything you are
And everything we were, and I
Don't tell me
You never thought that we would come to this
Standing here, giving up all that we have been
Whoa! and don't blame me
This is not about what I have done
I've done more, I could do, still we fought
Still you try me, but baby
I deny-I-I!
Woo
All that you did and all that you didn't
All that you said and all that wouldn't
Deny, I deny it
Defy, everything, ohh
I deny it!
All that we were and all that we called up, oh-whoa
All that you were and all that you made up
Defy, I defy it, woo
I deny everything oh
All that you did and all that you made up
All that you said and all that you wouldn't, whoa-oh-oh
Deny, I deny it woo
Defy, everything oh
All that we were and all that we called up
All that you were and all that you made up
Defy, I defy it
I deny everything you are
And everything we were
And everything you were
And everything we were, and I
Whoa-oh
I deny
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Denial Lyrics as written by Ina Wroldsen Chris Braide
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