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"
If a girl wont come round
(She must be a lesbian)
Or turns me down
(She must be a lesbian)
If she don't like me
(She must be a lesbian)
I'll let her down lightly
(You must be a lesbian)
I'm at a party, I'm a girl machine
I'm gonna have sex with them all, if you know what I mean
It's like a sweet sixteen but the girls are eighteen
And I can't wait to peel em like a tangerine
I'm gonna g... go down on em like a submarine
Submarines are fun he he he he heee
I walk to a hottie and turn on my charm
But before I can start I hear a rape alarm
It's going
I can't feel my ears I think they're bleeding
From the
I can't work out why the girls are screaming
I'm the best looking boy in the world
Ohh wait I bet she likes kissing girls
I still hear the
Maybe if I let her she would me with a
I can't work out why the girls don't fancy me
I'm the best looking boy in sight no hang on
I bet she likes boobies right?
If a girl wont come round
(She must be a lesbian)
Or turns me down
(She must be a lesbian)
If she don't like me
(She must be a lesbian)
I'll let her down lightly
(You must be a lesbian)
If a girl wont kiss
(She's taking the piss)
Or get down with this
(I can't believe it)
If she doesn't fancy me
She must bat for the other team
Take two, it's my rapping debut
I'm having trouble trying to find a better girl to pursue
I'm like a fire truck WHAT! Full of muscley guys?
I meant a pun where I'd compare the hose to my size
And then I see her, and I start feeling sick
I say my name is Pogo, you want to jump on my stick?
I woo her with my words, ask if I can poker face?
She doesn't see the funny side and sprays my face with mace
It's going
I can't feel my eyes I think they're bleeding
From the
I can't work out why the girl is screaming
I'm the best looking boy in the world
Ohh wait I bet she likes kissing girls
I still feel the
Maybe she could me up mywith a
I can't work out why the girls don't fancy me
I'm the best looking boy in sight holy smokes
I bet she likes boobies right?
We are two boys and were looking for two girls
They are two girls lets talk to the girls
How are you? what's your name
I try to talk but I just came
In my pants, I am sad
Chatting up girls is really rad.
(She must be a lesbian)
Or turns me down
(She must be a lesbian)
If she don't like me
(She must be a lesbian)
I'll let her down lightly
(You must be a lesbian)
I'm at a party, I'm a girl machine
I'm gonna have sex with them all, if you know what I mean
It's like a sweet sixteen but the girls are eighteen
And I can't wait to peel em like a tangerine
I'm gonna g... go down on em like a submarine
Submarines are fun he he he he heee
I walk to a hottie and turn on my charm
But before I can start I hear a rape alarm
It's going
I can't feel my ears I think they're bleeding
From the
I can't work out why the girls are screaming
I'm the best looking boy in the world
Ohh wait I bet she likes kissing girls
I still hear the
Maybe if I let her she would me with a
I can't work out why the girls don't fancy me
I'm the best looking boy in sight no hang on
I bet she likes boobies right?
If a girl wont come round
(She must be a lesbian)
Or turns me down
(She must be a lesbian)
If she don't like me
(She must be a lesbian)
I'll let her down lightly
(You must be a lesbian)
If a girl wont kiss
(She's taking the piss)
Or get down with this
(I can't believe it)
If she doesn't fancy me
She must bat for the other team
Take two, it's my rapping debut
I'm having trouble trying to find a better girl to pursue
I'm like a fire truck WHAT! Full of muscley guys?
I meant a pun where I'd compare the hose to my size
And then I see her, and I start feeling sick
I say my name is Pogo, you want to jump on my stick?
I woo her with my words, ask if I can poker face?
She doesn't see the funny side and sprays my face with mace
It's going
I can't feel my eyes I think they're bleeding
From the
I can't work out why the girl is screaming
I'm the best looking boy in the world
Ohh wait I bet she likes kissing girls
I still feel the
Maybe she could me up mywith a
I can't work out why the girls don't fancy me
I'm the best looking boy in sight holy smokes
I bet she likes boobies right?
We are two boys and were looking for two girls
They are two girls lets talk to the girls
How are you? what's your name
I try to talk but I just came
In my pants, I am sad
Chatting up girls is really rad.
Lyrics submitted by alterEgo
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