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"
Boy when I first saw you
I knew I could adore u
And it's my nature to be shy but not tonight, no
So let me make the first move
I'll make it easy for you
Someone has to break the ice, oh baby, oh
Don't care bout your money or the car that you drive
Cos my affection ain't somethin' you can buy
Got my suspicion lookin' in your eye
That you could be my kind of guy
Do you like watchin' the sun come up
Sippin champagne in a paper cup
Laughin' when you're makin love
Cos I'm that kind of girl
Dancin' to a sad love song
Even when the music's gone
Kisses that go on and on and on
Cos I'm that kind of girl
Is this first star wishing
A woman's intuition
Has my arrow found its mark, oh baby, yeah-hey
Cos all I do is think of you
In a fantasy for two
And I've just got to let you know
Cos being real is in my heart and soul
Don't care bout your money or the car that you drive
Cos my affection ain't somethin' you can buy
Got my suspicion lookin' in your eye
That you could be my kind of guy
Do you like watchin' the sun come up (up)
Sippin champagne in a paper cup (oh yeah)
Laughin' when you're makin love (oh whoa)
Cos I'm that kind of girl
Dancin' to a sad love song (yeah yeah yeah)
Even when the music's gone (music's gone)
Kisses that go on and on and on (on and on and on and on)
Cos I'm that kind of girl
I wanna be kissin' in the rain
Fallin' in love over and over again
Oh, cos I'm that kind of girl
Do you like watchin' the sun come up
Sippin champagne in a paper cup
Laughin' when you're makin love
Cos I'm that kind of girl
Dancin' to a sad love song (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Even when the music's gone (music's gone)
Kisses that go on and on and on (on and on and on and oh
whoa)
Cos I'm that kind of girl
Do you like watchin' the sun come up
(Don't care bout your money or the car that you drive)
Sippin champagne in a paper cup
(Cos my affection ain't somethin' you can buy)
Laughin' when you're makin love
(Got my suspicion lookin' in your eye)
Cos I'm that kind of girl
Dancin' to a sad love song (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Even when the music's gone (music's gone)
Kisses that go on and on and on
(On and on and on and on and on and on and on and on)
Cos I'm that kind of girl
Do you like watchin' the sun come up
(Don't care bout your money or the car that you drive)
Sippin champagne in a paper cup
(Cos my affection ain't somethin' you can buy)
Laughin' when you're makin love
(Got my suspicion lookin' in your eye)
Cos I'm that kind of girl
Dancin' to a sad love song
Even when the music's gone
Kisses that go on and on and on
Cos I'm that kind of girl
I knew I could adore u
And it's my nature to be shy but not tonight, no
So let me make the first move
I'll make it easy for you
Someone has to break the ice, oh baby, oh
Don't care bout your money or the car that you drive
Cos my affection ain't somethin' you can buy
Got my suspicion lookin' in your eye
That you could be my kind of guy
Do you like watchin' the sun come up
Sippin champagne in a paper cup
Laughin' when you're makin love
Cos I'm that kind of girl
Dancin' to a sad love song
Even when the music's gone
Kisses that go on and on and on
Cos I'm that kind of girl
Is this first star wishing
A woman's intuition
Has my arrow found its mark, oh baby, yeah-hey
Cos all I do is think of you
In a fantasy for two
And I've just got to let you know
Cos being real is in my heart and soul
Don't care bout your money or the car that you drive
Cos my affection ain't somethin' you can buy
Got my suspicion lookin' in your eye
That you could be my kind of guy
Do you like watchin' the sun come up (up)
Sippin champagne in a paper cup (oh yeah)
Laughin' when you're makin love (oh whoa)
Cos I'm that kind of girl
Dancin' to a sad love song (yeah yeah yeah)
Even when the music's gone (music's gone)
Kisses that go on and on and on (on and on and on and on)
Cos I'm that kind of girl
I wanna be kissin' in the rain
Fallin' in love over and over again
Oh, cos I'm that kind of girl
Do you like watchin' the sun come up
Sippin champagne in a paper cup
Laughin' when you're makin love
Cos I'm that kind of girl
Dancin' to a sad love song (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Even when the music's gone (music's gone)
Kisses that go on and on and on (on and on and on and oh
whoa)
Cos I'm that kind of girl
Do you like watchin' the sun come up
(Don't care bout your money or the car that you drive)
Sippin champagne in a paper cup
(Cos my affection ain't somethin' you can buy)
Laughin' when you're makin love
(Got my suspicion lookin' in your eye)
Cos I'm that kind of girl
Dancin' to a sad love song (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Even when the music's gone (music's gone)
Kisses that go on and on and on
(On and on and on and on and on and on and on and on)
Cos I'm that kind of girl
Do you like watchin' the sun come up
(Don't care bout your money or the car that you drive)
Sippin champagne in a paper cup
(Cos my affection ain't somethin' you can buy)
Laughin' when you're makin love
(Got my suspicion lookin' in your eye)
Cos I'm that kind of girl
Dancin' to a sad love song
Even when the music's gone
Kisses that go on and on and on
Cos I'm that kind of girl
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