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 not the type
Type of girl to remain
With the guy, with the guy too shy
Too afraid to say, he'll give his heart to you forever
I'm not the boy that will fall to his knees
With his hands clenched tight
Begging, begging you please
To stay with him for worse and for better
But I'm staring at you now
There's no one else around
I'm thinking you're the girl for me
I'm just saying it's fine by me
If you never leave
And we can live like this forever
It's fine by me
In the past I would try
Try hard to commit to a girl
Wouldn't get too far
And it always somehow seemed to fall apart
Who are you, you, you
I can see what I need
I can dream realistically
I knew that this was different from the start
And it seems that every time
We're eye to eye
I can find another piece of you
That I don't wanna lose
And I'm staring at you now
There's no one else around
I'm thinking you're the girl I need
I'm just saying it's fine by me
If you never leave
And we can live like this forever
It's fine by me
I'm just saying it's fine by me
If you never leave
And we can live like this forever
It's fine by me
And it's never easy
Darling, believe me
I'm as skeptical as you
But when I think of, life without us
She's like "what we supposed to do?"
But I don't wanna come on too strong
I'm just saying it's fine by me
If you never leave
We can live like this forever
It's fine by me
It's fine by me if you never leave
And we can live like this forever
It's fine by me
I'm just saying it's fine by me
If we never leave
And we can live like this forever
It's fine by me
Type of girl to remain
With the guy, with the guy too shy
Too afraid to say, he'll give his heart to you forever
I'm not the boy that will fall to his knees
With his hands clenched tight
Begging, begging you please
To stay with him for worse and for better
But I'm staring at you now
There's no one else around
I'm thinking you're the girl for me
I'm just saying it's fine by me
If you never leave
And we can live like this forever
It's fine by me
In the past I would try
Try hard to commit to a girl
Wouldn't get too far
And it always somehow seemed to fall apart
Who are you, you, you
I can see what I need
I can dream realistically
I knew that this was different from the start
And it seems that every time
We're eye to eye
I can find another piece of you
That I don't wanna lose
And I'm staring at you now
There's no one else around
I'm thinking you're the girl I need
I'm just saying it's fine by me
If you never leave
And we can live like this forever
It's fine by me
I'm just saying it's fine by me
If you never leave
And we can live like this forever
It's fine by me
And it's never easy
Darling, believe me
I'm as skeptical as you
But when I think of, life without us
She's like "what we supposed to do?"
But I don't wanna come on too strong
I'm just saying it's fine by me
If you never leave
We can live like this forever
It's fine by me
It's fine by me if you never leave
And we can live like this forever
It's fine by me
I'm just saying it's fine by me
If we never leave
And we can live like this forever
It's fine by me
Lyrics submitted by carlaxnika, edited by nebanebet, jaedeekae1
Fine by Me Lyrics as written by Matthew Radosevich Andrew Grammer
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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