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 can't take my eyes off of you
I'm drawn to you like a magnet
I've somehow found the courage to be frank
My heart trembles like crazy
My eyes, all they see is you
I feel I want to get to know you even a little better
You should get with me, anytime
If you don't mind... come, come be my lady
So give me a chance, even once
Hold my hand and give me your love
Baby, you’re my superstar, and I'm your biggest fan
Together, there's no way we're wrong
My heart cannot be shaken
Girl, I’ll be your superstar, and you, my biggest fan
My love cannot be stopped
So baby, let’s get it on, get it on, girl
The other men you've met
I'm different from them
I can make your whole body scream
Even when I'm looking at you, I miss you
I just wanna hold you and kiss you, baby
In my head there's only you and I...
Come and talk to me, anytime, girl
If you don't mind... come, come be my baby
Let me love you, even for a little while
Hold my hand and show me your love
Baby, you’re my superstar, and I'm your biggest fan
Together, there's no way we're wrong
My heart cannot be shaken
Girl, I’ll be your superstar, and you, my biggest fan
My love cannot be stopped
So baby, let’s get it on, get it on, girl
Even this world-weary
loneliness of yours, baby
I can embrace warmly
As if I were a young child
As if this were first love
You endlessly inspire and make my heart flutter
Baby, you’re my superstar, and I'm your biggest fan
Together, there's no way we're wrong
My heart cannot be shaken
Girl, I’ll be your superstar, and you, my biggest fan
My love cannot be stopped
So baby, let’s get it on, get it on, girl
Baby, let’s get it on, get it on girl
I'm drawn to you like a magnet
I've somehow found the courage to be frank
My heart trembles like crazy
My eyes, all they see is you
I feel I want to get to know you even a little better
You should get with me, anytime
If you don't mind... come, come be my lady
So give me a chance, even once
Hold my hand and give me your love
Baby, you’re my superstar, and I'm your biggest fan
Together, there's no way we're wrong
My heart cannot be shaken
Girl, I’ll be your superstar, and you, my biggest fan
My love cannot be stopped
So baby, let’s get it on, get it on, girl
The other men you've met
I'm different from them
I can make your whole body scream
Even when I'm looking at you, I miss you
I just wanna hold you and kiss you, baby
In my head there's only you and I...
Come and talk to me, anytime, girl
If you don't mind... come, come be my baby
Let me love you, even for a little while
Hold my hand and show me your love
Baby, you’re my superstar, and I'm your biggest fan
Together, there's no way we're wrong
My heart cannot be shaken
Girl, I’ll be your superstar, and you, my biggest fan
My love cannot be stopped
So baby, let’s get it on, get it on, girl
Even this world-weary
loneliness of yours, baby
I can embrace warmly
As if I were a young child
As if this were first love
You endlessly inspire and make my heart flutter
Baby, you’re my superstar, and I'm your biggest fan
Together, there's no way we're wrong
My heart cannot be shaken
Girl, I’ll be your superstar, and you, my biggest fan
My love cannot be stopped
So baby, let’s get it on, get it on, girl
Baby, let’s get it on, get it on girl
Lyrics submitted by Isaura
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