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"
Hey, slow it down
What do you want from me
What do you want from me
Yeah, I'm afraid
What do you want from me
What do you from me
There might have been a time
I would give myself away
Ooh once upon a time
I didn't give a damn
But now here we are
So what do you want from me
What do you want from me
Just don't give up
I'm workin' it out
Please don't give in
I won't let you down
It messed me up,
Need a second to breathe
Just keep coming around
Hey, what do you want from me
What do you want from me
What do you want from me
Yeah, it's plain to see
That baby you're beautiful
And it's nothing wrong with you
It's me I'm a freak
But thanks for lovin' me
Cause you're doing it perfectly
Yeah there might have been a time
When I would let you step away
I wouldn't even try but I think
You could save my life
Just don't give up
I'm workin' it out
Please don't give in
I won't let you down
It messed me up,
Need a second to breathe
Just keep coming around
Hey, what do you want from me
What do you want from me
What do you want from me
What do you want from me
What do you want from me
Just don't give up on me
I won't let you down
No, I won't let you down
So Just don't give up
I'm workin' it out
Please don't give in
I won't let you down
It messed me up,
Need a second to breathe
Just keep coming around
Hey, what do you want from me
Just don't give up
I'm workin' it out
Please don't give in
I won't let you down
It messed me up,
Need a second to breathe
Just keep coming around
Hey, whataya want from me
(whataya want from me)
Whataya want from me
(whataya want from me)
Whataya want from me
(whataya want from me)
What do you want from me
What do you want from me
Yeah, I'm afraid
What do you want from me
What do you from me
There might have been a time
I would give myself away
Ooh once upon a time
I didn't give a damn
But now here we are
So what do you want from me
What do you want from me
Just don't give up
I'm workin' it out
Please don't give in
I won't let you down
It messed me up,
Need a second to breathe
Just keep coming around
Hey, what do you want from me
What do you want from me
What do you want from me
Yeah, it's plain to see
That baby you're beautiful
And it's nothing wrong with you
It's me I'm a freak
But thanks for lovin' me
Cause you're doing it perfectly
Yeah there might have been a time
When I would let you step away
I wouldn't even try but I think
You could save my life
Just don't give up
I'm workin' it out
Please don't give in
I won't let you down
It messed me up,
Need a second to breathe
Just keep coming around
Hey, what do you want from me
What do you want from me
What do you want from me
What do you want from me
What do you want from me
Just don't give up on me
I won't let you down
No, I won't let you down
So Just don't give up
I'm workin' it out
Please don't give in
I won't let you down
It messed me up,
Need a second to breathe
Just keep coming around
Hey, what do you want from me
Just don't give up
I'm workin' it out
Please don't give in
I won't let you down
It messed me up,
Need a second to breathe
Just keep coming around
Hey, whataya want from me
(whataya want from me)
Whataya want from me
(whataya want from me)
Whataya want from me
(whataya want from me)
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Whataya Want From Me Lyrics as written by Max Martin Alecia Moore
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