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"
Who's in love with you now?
I swear to god... I swear to god, I am.
Who's in love with you now?
I swear to god... I swear to god, I am.
Nobody really wants ya.
(Verse 1)
First off, let me say I'm drunk off of shitty wine.
So, I probably used the b word a couple times.
I used to love your fucking mouth, you had enough of mine.
but what's the reason for, you never gave me any sign.
When we were making out, you kinda act like it was nothin'.
Like you were doing it to prove you could do it or somethin'.
You know I'm fine with getting fucked by girls who are my friends.
You fucked me in that different way. I guess it all depends.
Texting on my day off. "Hey babe, what's going on?
Sorry I can't make it out." Sad face, emoticon.
It's funny how I see you with these bad boys you hanging on.
I told you, I'm a soldier, need a girl scout to tag along.
Face down, ass up. That's the way you left me.
I thought there was a sparkle. We were missing Lisa Leslie.
"You know it's fucking childish to write a song to get me!"
I'm always fucking childish. You knew that when you met me.
(Chorus)
Who's in love with you now?
I swear to god... I swear to god, I am.
Who's in love with you now?
I swear to god... I swear to god, I am.
Nobody really wants ya.
(Verse 2)
You ain't that fine bitch, what the fuck you heard?
I love these shitty ass chicks. I guess I'll never learn.
I hate it when you really think you're getting something good.
and you don't listen to your dudes when you really should.
I got so many fucking girls, I can't even count 'em.
There's probably six or seven girls who think this song's about 'em.
Never kiss in public, but at home I am affectionate.
Fucking bitches left and right, my dick is ambidextrous.
I know you're probably texting these lyrics to your friends
saying, This nigga think he all that, he fucking sucked in bed
Well, uh... I think we both know that I work that ass.
I hope your dude can keep it stretched... yoga class.
I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference,
but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.
So, let me quit while I'm ahead like a penis.
If I never was in love with you I hope you know I'm meaning it.
(Chorus)
Who's in love with you now?
I swear to god... I swear to god, I am.
Who's in love with you now?
I swear to god... I swear to god, I am.
Nobody really wants ya.
X2
Nobody really wants ya...
Nobody really wants ya...
Nobody really wants ya.
wants ya (echoes out)
I swear to god... I swear to god, I am.
Who's in love with you now?
I swear to god... I swear to god, I am.
Nobody really wants ya.
(Verse 1)
First off, let me say I'm drunk off of shitty wine.
So, I probably used the b word a couple times.
I used to love your fucking mouth, you had enough of mine.
but what's the reason for, you never gave me any sign.
When we were making out, you kinda act like it was nothin'.
Like you were doing it to prove you could do it or somethin'.
You know I'm fine with getting fucked by girls who are my friends.
You fucked me in that different way. I guess it all depends.
Texting on my day off. "Hey babe, what's going on?
Sorry I can't make it out." Sad face, emoticon.
It's funny how I see you with these bad boys you hanging on.
I told you, I'm a soldier, need a girl scout to tag along.
Face down, ass up. That's the way you left me.
I thought there was a sparkle. We were missing Lisa Leslie.
"You know it's fucking childish to write a song to get me!"
I'm always fucking childish. You knew that when you met me.
(Chorus)
Who's in love with you now?
I swear to god... I swear to god, I am.
Who's in love with you now?
I swear to god... I swear to god, I am.
Nobody really wants ya.
(Verse 2)
You ain't that fine bitch, what the fuck you heard?
I love these shitty ass chicks. I guess I'll never learn.
I hate it when you really think you're getting something good.
and you don't listen to your dudes when you really should.
I got so many fucking girls, I can't even count 'em.
There's probably six or seven girls who think this song's about 'em.
Never kiss in public, but at home I am affectionate.
Fucking bitches left and right, my dick is ambidextrous.
I know you're probably texting these lyrics to your friends
saying, This nigga think he all that, he fucking sucked in bed
Well, uh... I think we both know that I work that ass.
I hope your dude can keep it stretched... yoga class.
I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference,
but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.
So, let me quit while I'm ahead like a penis.
If I never was in love with you I hope you know I'm meaning it.
(Chorus)
Who's in love with you now?
I swear to god... I swear to god, I am.
Who's in love with you now?
I swear to god... I swear to god, I am.
Nobody really wants ya.
X2
Nobody really wants ya...
Nobody really wants ya...
Nobody really wants ya.
wants ya (echoes out)
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couple of corrections:
it's "this nigga think he all that, he fuckin' sucked in bed"
and
"i hope your dude can keep it stretched, yoga class"
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It's a stoopid song. But the line "There's probably six or seven girls who think this song's about 'em" might have some truth to it:) The name of the band is very fitting. <br />
ya maybe your right but some of the lyrics i can relate too so that probly why i like it :P listen to it live sounds amazing youtube it
Did anyone else catch that he was drunk when he wrote this?