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, yeah
Phone rings at a quarter to nine
Some crazy girl is on the line
Talkin' bout how I better recognise
Found my phone number in his Calvin Klein's, and I'm like
What's that gotta do with me?
Your man is the one who needs questioning
'Cause there ain't nothing that you're gonna achieve
By calling me and giving me the third degree
And if he's your man then tell me
Why was he sweatin' me
All up in the club last night
Telling me I'm the type of girl he likes
If you say you don't believe (don't believe)
He was acting that way
Girl I wish you could've seen how your man was shakin' me
Girlfriend let me give you somethin'
I know that you love him but you should've saw him last night
You ain't his girlfriend anymore than I am
I know you see him but girl you really should've saw him last night
Hold on, on no you didn't say
That I need to back away
I thought you heard when I told you that
It ain't my fault if he wants you back, no
All that's been said to me
It don't really mean a thing
You need to realise that I'm not the one
You should call with an attitude
And if he's your man then tell me
Why was he freakin' with me?
All up on the floor last night
Saying things I know you wouldn't like
But you say you don't believe
He was acting that way
Girl I wish you could've seen how your man was shakin' me
Girlfriend let me give you somethin' (oh)
I know that you love him but you should've saw him last night
(Oh yeah, last night)
You ain't his girlfriend anymore than I am (anymore)
I know you see him but girl you really should've saw him last night
Did you really think your man was down for you?
Did you really think that his love was true?
If you had been loving your man right
He wouldn't have been puttin' it on me all night
You weren't his girl last night
(Girlfriend, girlfriend)
Girlfriend let me give you somethin'
I know that you love him but you should've saw him last night
(Love him, yeah, saw him last night)
You ain't his girlfriend anymore than I am
(Girlfriend, yeah, no)
I know you see him but girl you really should've saw him last night
Girl you should've really saw him
Girlfriend I know that you love him
But, But you should've saw him last, saw him last night,
Night, ni-night, night
Anymore than, girlfriend, friend, know you see him, girlfriend
Saw him, friend, saw him, saw him last
Saw him last night, night, girlfriend
Girlfriend let me give you somethin' (girlfriend)
I know that you love him but you should've saw him last night
(I know that you love him, saw him last night)
You ain't his girlfriend anymore than I am (anymore than I am)
I know you see him but girl you really should've saw him last nght
(I know you see, but girl you really should have saw him last night)
Phone rings at a quarter to nine
Some crazy girl is on the line
Talkin' bout how I better recognise
Found my phone number in his Calvin Klein's, and I'm like
What's that gotta do with me?
Your man is the one who needs questioning
'Cause there ain't nothing that you're gonna achieve
By calling me and giving me the third degree
And if he's your man then tell me
Why was he sweatin' me
All up in the club last night
Telling me I'm the type of girl he likes
If you say you don't believe (don't believe)
He was acting that way
Girl I wish you could've seen how your man was shakin' me
Girlfriend let me give you somethin'
I know that you love him but you should've saw him last night
You ain't his girlfriend anymore than I am
I know you see him but girl you really should've saw him last night
Hold on, on no you didn't say
That I need to back away
I thought you heard when I told you that
It ain't my fault if he wants you back, no
All that's been said to me
It don't really mean a thing
You need to realise that I'm not the one
You should call with an attitude
And if he's your man then tell me
Why was he freakin' with me?
All up on the floor last night
Saying things I know you wouldn't like
But you say you don't believe
He was acting that way
Girl I wish you could've seen how your man was shakin' me
Girlfriend let me give you somethin' (oh)
I know that you love him but you should've saw him last night
(Oh yeah, last night)
You ain't his girlfriend anymore than I am (anymore)
I know you see him but girl you really should've saw him last night
Did you really think your man was down for you?
Did you really think that his love was true?
If you had been loving your man right
He wouldn't have been puttin' it on me all night
You weren't his girl last night
(Girlfriend, girlfriend)
Girlfriend let me give you somethin'
I know that you love him but you should've saw him last night
(Love him, yeah, saw him last night)
You ain't his girlfriend anymore than I am
(Girlfriend, yeah, no)
I know you see him but girl you really should've saw him last night
Girl you should've really saw him
Girlfriend I know that you love him
But, But you should've saw him last, saw him last night,
Night, ni-night, night
Anymore than, girlfriend, friend, know you see him, girlfriend
Saw him, friend, saw him, saw him last
Saw him last night, night, girlfriend
Girlfriend let me give you somethin' (girlfriend)
I know that you love him but you should've saw him last night
(I know that you love him, saw him last night)
You ain't his girlfriend anymore than I am (anymore than I am)
I know you see him but girl you really should've saw him last nght
(I know you see, but girl you really should have saw him last night)
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