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"
There she was just a - walking down the street
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
Snapping her fingers and shuffling to the beat
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
Doin' the do
Doin' the do
Doin' the do
Doin' the do
Doin' the do
Doin' the do
Doin' the do
Doin' the do
Doh wah diddy dam diddy doo
Check out the groove
And the beat is gonna move you
Shake it shake it shake it
Until you get crazy
But just don't fake it
So you want me to shake it, yo I'll shake it
Pass me the mic
And I sure won't fake it
Me and my man TC
We get down
To the beat
It's the doh wah diddy sound
Let this beat just spin you around
Get up and stand up and move
To this sound
Let this rhythm control
Your feet it's the factory of fun
You need
Unique styles is what we're bringing you
'Cause we blow up y'all
And I came to do
A brand new style for
The dance floor
'Cause I got more you
Want more
There she was just a - walking down the street
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
Snapping her fingers and shuffling to the beat
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
There she was just a - walking down the street
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
Snapping her fingers and shuffling to the beat
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
She looks good
She looks good
She looks good
She looks fine
She looks good
She looks good
She looks good
She looks fine
Get your booties on
The floor get them there what
You're waiting for?
Wave your hands from here to there
To the rhythm up
Yes in the air all the ladies
Scream all the fellows ho
'Cause I got the flow and I'm about to go
So I pass to TC
He's about to flow
Pump it pump it up the speaker
Let the bass hit you
Straight and deeper
Can you stand can you stand the power?
After this all you'll need is a shower
So pass me the mic
And let me wash the funk in
The doh wah diddy dance
Is made for you and me
So party people just get on up
The Fun Factory is coming
With a brand new cut
There she was just a - walking down the street
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
Snapping her fingers and shuffling to the beat
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
There she was just a - walking down the street
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
Snapping her fingers and shuffling to the beat
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
She looks good
She looks good
She looks good
She looks fine
She looks good
She looks good
She looks good
She looks fine
She looks good
She looks good
She looks good
She looks fine
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
Snapping her fingers and shuffling to the beat
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
Doin' the do
Doin' the do
Doin' the do
Doin' the do
Doin' the do
Doin' the do
Doin' the do
Doin' the do
Doh wah diddy dam diddy doo
Check out the groove
And the beat is gonna move you
Shake it shake it shake it
Until you get crazy
But just don't fake it
So you want me to shake it, yo I'll shake it
Pass me the mic
And I sure won't fake it
Me and my man TC
We get down
To the beat
It's the doh wah diddy sound
Let this beat just spin you around
Get up and stand up and move
To this sound
Let this rhythm control
Your feet it's the factory of fun
You need
Unique styles is what we're bringing you
'Cause we blow up y'all
And I came to do
A brand new style for
The dance floor
'Cause I got more you
Want more
There she was just a - walking down the street
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
Snapping her fingers and shuffling to the beat
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
There she was just a - walking down the street
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
Snapping her fingers and shuffling to the beat
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
She looks good
She looks good
She looks good
She looks fine
She looks good
She looks good
She looks good
She looks fine
Get your booties on
The floor get them there what
You're waiting for?
Wave your hands from here to there
To the rhythm up
Yes in the air all the ladies
Scream all the fellows ho
'Cause I got the flow and I'm about to go
So I pass to TC
He's about to flow
Pump it pump it up the speaker
Let the bass hit you
Straight and deeper
Can you stand can you stand the power?
After this all you'll need is a shower
So pass me the mic
And let me wash the funk in
The doh wah diddy dance
Is made for you and me
So party people just get on up
The Fun Factory is coming
With a brand new cut
There she was just a - walking down the street
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
Snapping her fingers and shuffling to the beat
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
There she was just a - walking down the street
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
Snapping her fingers and shuffling to the beat
Singin' doh wah diddy diddy dam diddy doh
She looks good
She looks good
She looks good
She looks fine
She looks good
She looks good
She looks good
She looks fine
She looks good
She looks good
She looks good
She looks fine
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Do Wah Diddy Lyrics as written by Jeff Barry Ellie Greenwich
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