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"
You're gonna want me
The minute that you leave me
You're gonna wish you'd stayed in my bed
You're gonna long for
The sound of me opening the door
But I'm just gonna listen to you knock instead
I hear the ringin' down a long, long hall
You can keep it up, baby
I ain't taking your call
I'm just gonna lay there
I'm gonna stay there
I ain't pickin' up that phone
You've been moving so long
In the wrong direction
It's time for you to be alone
So I ain't picking up that phone
You're gonna wanna call me
You're gonna wanna crawl back home
You'll try to smooth out the situation
You're gonna try to phone me
Whenever you feel lonely
But it's gonna be a one-way
conversation, baby
I hear the ringin' down a long, long hall
You can keep it up, baby
I ain't taking your call
I'm just gonna lay there
I'm gonna stay there
I ain't pickin' up that phone
You've been moving so long
In the wrong direction
It's time for you to be alone
So I ain't picking up that phone
You'll feel the cold, cold air underneath your clothes
Creeping in from the door I left open, baby
And you can try with all your might to change my mind
But you're just gonna have to keep on hoping
I'm just gonna lay there
I'm gonna stay there
I ain't pickin' up that phone
You've been moving so long
In the wrong direction
It's time for you to be alone
So I ain't picking up that phone
The minute that you leave me
You're gonna wish you'd stayed in my bed
You're gonna long for
The sound of me opening the door
But I'm just gonna listen to you knock instead
I hear the ringin' down a long, long hall
You can keep it up, baby
I ain't taking your call
I'm just gonna lay there
I'm gonna stay there
I ain't pickin' up that phone
You've been moving so long
In the wrong direction
It's time for you to be alone
So I ain't picking up that phone
You're gonna wanna call me
You're gonna wanna crawl back home
You'll try to smooth out the situation
You're gonna try to phone me
Whenever you feel lonely
But it's gonna be a one-way
conversation, baby
I hear the ringin' down a long, long hall
You can keep it up, baby
I ain't taking your call
I'm just gonna lay there
I'm gonna stay there
I ain't pickin' up that phone
You've been moving so long
In the wrong direction
It's time for you to be alone
So I ain't picking up that phone
You'll feel the cold, cold air underneath your clothes
Creeping in from the door I left open, baby
And you can try with all your might to change my mind
But you're just gonna have to keep on hoping
I'm just gonna lay there
I'm gonna stay there
I ain't pickin' up that phone
You've been moving so long
In the wrong direction
It's time for you to be alone
So I ain't picking up that phone
Lyrics submitted by artist in disguise
That Phone Lyrics as written by Mark Batson Grace Potter
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Walt Disney Music Company, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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