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"
Doo doo, doo doo, doo doo do doo
Doo doo, doo doo, doo doo do doo
Doo doo, doo doo, doo doo do doo
Doo doo, doo doo, doo doo do doo
I wanna knock knock down your door
Wanna steal your bicycle
Wanna rock your rocking horse
Wonder what's the time now, Mr. Wolf
Dancing in the street
With my suit and my big white teeth
And my shirt and my big white shoes
And almost nothing left to lose
In a minute, I mean it, you lose your grip
'Cause you're hanging, by a fingertip
I'm gonna huff you and puff you and shake your tree
Gonna make you, fall in love with me
Oh oh oh
Ooh ooh ooh
This is the beat beat beat of my heart
It overheats every time we're apart
With the sweat dripping off my chin
Honey you don't know the shape I'm in
Oh, struck down in the street
Staring up, up at the swings of your feet
Nobody knows the way that it is
Come on baby, baby please
A minute, you lose your grip
'Cause you're hanging, by a fingertip
And I've been waiting, impatient, down underneath,
Just to catch you, when you fall for me
I want to eat with you, sleep with you,
kiss you and listen to you
Get you what you want, give you what you need
I want to sing to and cling to
and wait and see
Gonna make you fall in love with me
'Cause they don't know
They don't know
In a minute, a minute, you'll fall for me
In a minute, any minute, wait and see
In a minute, I mean it, you'll fall for me
In a minute, any minute, oh wait and see
Doo doo, doo doo, doo doo do doo
Doo doo, doo doo, doo doo do doo
'Cause I've been waiting, impatient, down underneath,
just to catch you when you fall for me
And in a minute, I mean it, you lose your grip
'Cause you're only hanging on by a fingertip
I'm gonna huff you and puff you and shake your tree
Gonna make you, fall in love with me
Gonna make you, fall in love with me
Gonna make you make you fall in love with me
Doo doo, doo doo, doo doo do doo
Doo doo, doo doo, doo doo do doo
Doo doo, doo doo, doo doo do doo
I wanna knock knock down your door
Wanna steal your bicycle
Wanna rock your rocking horse
Wonder what's the time now, Mr. Wolf
Dancing in the street
With my suit and my big white teeth
And my shirt and my big white shoes
And almost nothing left to lose
In a minute, I mean it, you lose your grip
'Cause you're hanging, by a fingertip
I'm gonna huff you and puff you and shake your tree
Gonna make you, fall in love with me
Oh oh oh
Ooh ooh ooh
This is the beat beat beat of my heart
It overheats every time we're apart
With the sweat dripping off my chin
Honey you don't know the shape I'm in
Oh, struck down in the street
Staring up, up at the swings of your feet
Nobody knows the way that it is
Come on baby, baby please
A minute, you lose your grip
'Cause you're hanging, by a fingertip
And I've been waiting, impatient, down underneath,
Just to catch you, when you fall for me
I want to eat with you, sleep with you,
kiss you and listen to you
Get you what you want, give you what you need
I want to sing to and cling to
and wait and see
Gonna make you fall in love with me
'Cause they don't know
They don't know
In a minute, a minute, you'll fall for me
In a minute, any minute, wait and see
In a minute, I mean it, you'll fall for me
In a minute, any minute, oh wait and see
Doo doo, doo doo, doo doo do doo
Doo doo, doo doo, doo doo do doo
'Cause I've been waiting, impatient, down underneath,
just to catch you when you fall for me
And in a minute, I mean it, you lose your grip
'Cause you're only hanging on by a fingertip
I'm gonna huff you and puff you and shake your tree
Gonna make you, fall in love with me
Gonna make you, fall in love with me
Gonna make you make you fall in love with me
Lyrics submitted by dustfinger
Fingertip Lyrics as written by Matthew Hales Ben Hales
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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