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"
I've been hidin' around the corner
Throwin signals in the wind
I got something I know you want it
I keep it simply what you need
Don't deny me the right to have it
You supply me with the things you do
Oh baby I'll be I'll be around the corner now
So afraid to talk to you
Say what you need I'll be down on my knees
Crying until you try
You make it hard hard hard, hard hard hard
To stop from fallin' in love with you
You make it hard hard hard, hard hard hard
To stop from fallin' in love with you
I've been writing you a letter
With answers wrote at you
Second chances don't come too easy baby
This ain't a game you wanna lose
Say what you need I'll be down on my knees
Crying until you try
You make it hard hard hard, hard hard hard
To stop from fallin' in love with you
You make it hard hard hard, hard hard hard
To stop from fallin' in love with you
Sometimes at night I drift into a dream of you
And I like to find the dreams inside will come to life
When we glide into a world of perfect, glide into a world of perfect
Glide into a world of perfect love
come on out
Oh I've been watching you baby and I love the things you do
You make it hard hard hard, hard hard hard
To stop from fallin' in love with you
You make it hard hard hard, hard hard hard
To stop from fallin' in love with you
you make me so hard
You make me so hard
You make it hard hard hard, hard hard hard
To stop from fallin' in love with you
You make it hard hard hard, hard hard hard
To stop from fallin' in love with you
Fallin' in love with you
Fallin' in love with you
Throwin signals in the wind
I got something I know you want it
I keep it simply what you need
Don't deny me the right to have it
You supply me with the things you do
Oh baby I'll be I'll be around the corner now
So afraid to talk to you
Say what you need I'll be down on my knees
Crying until you try
You make it hard hard hard, hard hard hard
To stop from fallin' in love with you
You make it hard hard hard, hard hard hard
To stop from fallin' in love with you
I've been writing you a letter
With answers wrote at you
Second chances don't come too easy baby
This ain't a game you wanna lose
Say what you need I'll be down on my knees
Crying until you try
You make it hard hard hard, hard hard hard
To stop from fallin' in love with you
You make it hard hard hard, hard hard hard
To stop from fallin' in love with you
Sometimes at night I drift into a dream of you
And I like to find the dreams inside will come to life
When we glide into a world of perfect, glide into a world of perfect
Glide into a world of perfect love
come on out
Oh I've been watching you baby and I love the things you do
You make it hard hard hard, hard hard hard
To stop from fallin' in love with you
You make it hard hard hard, hard hard hard
To stop from fallin' in love with you
you make me so hard
You make me so hard
You make it hard hard hard, hard hard hard
To stop from fallin' in love with you
You make it hard hard hard, hard hard hard
To stop from fallin' in love with you
Fallin' in love with you
Fallin' in love with you
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