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"
Ya left me
I'm like I don't know why
Ya came back
And gave it another try
But I'm caught up
And I will add it's a lie
So we stop...
And now we're sayin bye bye
If ya want me to kill
I would
If ya want me to steal
I would
If ya want me to love ya
I could
But we're so misunderstood
Me and you together ain't really good anyway
We could break up or just break out in a heated argument on any given day
I'm impossible
Bein' with me is an obstacle
Women of the world
I got lots to pull
But we closer than most
Especially with our clothes of the floors
I'm only givin' dough's to those hoes
And without you is the one thing I hate
Together's our fate
But if ya ask baby I would jump in a lake
And I cheated
You stayed faithful
And I'm ungrateful
And I act so damn hateful
And over and o'er and o'er the sofa, finito
Cause I ain't seen when they get control of my libido
Forget about it
Cause I mean the world loves you
I was just playin' with them girls baby I love you
I know I messed up with ya baby I owe you
If we break up I'm a die o'er you
If ya ask me to kill
I would
If ya ask me to steal
I would
If ya want me to love ya
I could
But were so misunderstood
Baby this is too hard
The fightin' and the fussin' and the cussin' and ya bustin' me in my mouth
Girl I just want ya heart
I'm tusslin' with the fact that ya want me to get out
But I ain't leavin
You will listen to me now
If I gotta hold ya down (down, down)
We're soo misunderstood
Ya finally wonderin' why ya still keepin' me around
But if ya ask me to kill
I would
If ya ask me to steal
I would
If ya want me to love ya
I could
But were so misunderstood
(Pray for me ya'll)
And we're so misunderstood...
I'm like I don't know why
Ya came back
And gave it another try
But I'm caught up
And I will add it's a lie
So we stop...
And now we're sayin bye bye
If ya want me to kill
I would
If ya want me to steal
I would
If ya want me to love ya
I could
But we're so misunderstood
Me and you together ain't really good anyway
We could break up or just break out in a heated argument on any given day
I'm impossible
Bein' with me is an obstacle
Women of the world
I got lots to pull
But we closer than most
Especially with our clothes of the floors
I'm only givin' dough's to those hoes
And without you is the one thing I hate
Together's our fate
But if ya ask baby I would jump in a lake
And I cheated
You stayed faithful
And I'm ungrateful
And I act so damn hateful
And over and o'er and o'er the sofa, finito
Cause I ain't seen when they get control of my libido
Forget about it
Cause I mean the world loves you
I was just playin' with them girls baby I love you
I know I messed up with ya baby I owe you
If we break up I'm a die o'er you
If ya ask me to kill
I would
If ya ask me to steal
I would
If ya want me to love ya
I could
But were so misunderstood
Baby this is too hard
The fightin' and the fussin' and the cussin' and ya bustin' me in my mouth
Girl I just want ya heart
I'm tusslin' with the fact that ya want me to get out
But I ain't leavin
You will listen to me now
If I gotta hold ya down (down, down)
We're soo misunderstood
Ya finally wonderin' why ya still keepin' me around
But if ya ask me to kill
I would
If ya ask me to steal
I would
If ya want me to love ya
I could
But were so misunderstood
(Pray for me ya'll)
And we're so misunderstood...
Lyrics submitted by hornbogen34
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