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 was tryin' to cross the street
When I tripped and spilled my coffee
On a man who yelled at me
And then walked off in a hurry
Now he's gonna be late for work
So he called his secretary
Said to cancel his appointment with the guy in the lobby
Who's been waiting for a while
And talking on the phone
Got invited to a party and thought he couldn't go
But he's here right now
Standing in my house
And someone turns the music loud
So we dance
And we laugh
And we touch (touch, touch)
Yeah, we dance
And we laugh
And we touch (touch, touch)
Gonna party all night till the sun comes up
'Cause it feels like the world disappears around us
When we dance
When we laugh
When we touch
I was planning out my party
Running errands 'round the city
Grocery bags full of alcohol
And chocolate chip cookies
Saw a dress that was amazing
In the window of a boutique
So I went across the street
Then my heel broke and it threw me
I tried to catch my balance
But I was 'sposed to fall
It seems that spilling coffee
Was no accident at all
'Cause you're here right now
Sitting on my couch
Funny how it all works out
When we dance
And we laugh
And we touch (touch, touch)
Yeah, we dance
And we laugh
And we touch (touch, touch)
Gonna party all night till the sun comes up
'Cause it feels like the world disappears around us
When we dance
When we laugh
When we touch
Every choice we make
And every road we take
Every interaction
Starts a chain reaction
We're both affected when we least expect it
And then when we touched
Then it all connected
Every choice we make
And every road we take
Every interaction
Starts a chain reaction
We're both affected when we least expect it
And when we
When we dance
And we laugh
And we touch (touch, touch)
When we dance
When we laugh
When we touch (touch, touch)
Gonna party all night till the sun comes up
'Cause it feels like the world disappears around us
When we dance
When we laugh
When we touch
Ooo oo oo ooo
We touch
Ooo oo oo ooo
We touch
Ooo oo oo ooo
We touch
Ooo oo oo ooo
We touch
When I tripped and spilled my coffee
On a man who yelled at me
And then walked off in a hurry
Now he's gonna be late for work
So he called his secretary
Said to cancel his appointment with the guy in the lobby
Who's been waiting for a while
And talking on the phone
Got invited to a party and thought he couldn't go
But he's here right now
Standing in my house
And someone turns the music loud
So we dance
And we laugh
And we touch (touch, touch)
Yeah, we dance
And we laugh
And we touch (touch, touch)
Gonna party all night till the sun comes up
'Cause it feels like the world disappears around us
When we dance
When we laugh
When we touch
I was planning out my party
Running errands 'round the city
Grocery bags full of alcohol
And chocolate chip cookies
Saw a dress that was amazing
In the window of a boutique
So I went across the street
Then my heel broke and it threw me
I tried to catch my balance
But I was 'sposed to fall
It seems that spilling coffee
Was no accident at all
'Cause you're here right now
Sitting on my couch
Funny how it all works out
When we dance
And we laugh
And we touch (touch, touch)
Yeah, we dance
And we laugh
And we touch (touch, touch)
Gonna party all night till the sun comes up
'Cause it feels like the world disappears around us
When we dance
When we laugh
When we touch
Every choice we make
And every road we take
Every interaction
Starts a chain reaction
We're both affected when we least expect it
And then when we touched
Then it all connected
Every choice we make
And every road we take
Every interaction
Starts a chain reaction
We're both affected when we least expect it
And when we
When we dance
And we laugh
And we touch (touch, touch)
When we dance
When we laugh
When we touch (touch, touch)
Gonna party all night till the sun comes up
'Cause it feels like the world disappears around us
When we dance
When we laugh
When we touch
Ooo oo oo ooo
We touch
Ooo oo oo ooo
We touch
Ooo oo oo ooo
We touch
Ooo oo oo ooo
We touch
Lyrics submitted by cherriestar
Touch Lyrics as written by Julian Bunetta Natasha Bedingfield
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Hipgnosis Songs Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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