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"
Some gonna get you
Some gonna grab you
Some gonna jump out of the bushes and grab you
Whole lotta folks, you better run faster
Some gonna grab you
Some gonna jump out of the bushes and grab you
Some gonna grab you
Oh you need this thing to grab you, ha
Yeah, yeah
Keep on running
Keep on running from my love
Keep on running, yeah
Keep on running from my love
Some folks say that you're really, really fine
All you wanna be is just a friend of mine
But I know, the man your with gonna break your heart
And you'll be sad real soon, yeah
Keep on running
Keep on running from my love
Keep on running, yeah
Keep on running from my love
Some folks say that you're really, really fine
But all you wanna be is just a friend of mine
But I know I'm gonna get you with him real soon
Why do you keep?
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Yeah, keep on running from
(Keep on running, running from my love)
I need you baby
(Keep on running, running from my love)
And everyday yeah
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Oh
Keep on running
Keep on running from my love
Keep on running yeah
Keep on running from my love
Some folks say that your love is really good
All you wanna be is just a friend of mine
But I know, I'm gonna get you in the end
'Cause I need you so
Keep on running
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Yeah, keep on running baby
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Ah, can you hear me so, yeah
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Ah, yeah
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Hey, you gonna say it loud
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Oh, yeah
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Uh, you can shout it loud
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Something gonna get you, yeah
(Keep on running, running from my love)
You can get it baby in my love
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Oh, yeah say
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Sing I love you so
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Sing, so
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Sing a little song for me
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Baby, you can bring me love
(Keep on running, running from my love)
I wanna hear
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Na na na na na na yeah
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Everybody sing it with me, yeah
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Some's gonna grab you
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Some's gonna jump out of the bushes and grab you, yeah
(Keep on running, running from my love)
keep on running baby
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Oh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh
(Keep on running, running from my love)
This is it
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
Keep on running
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Oh, yeh, yeah
(Keep on running, running from my love)
I'm getting tired of you running
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Can you feel it in the shoe babe?
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Hey, hey
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, mama, mama, mama
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Some gonna grab you
Some gonna jump out of the bushes and grab you
Whole lotta folks, you better run faster
Some gonna grab you
Some gonna jump out of the bushes and grab you
Some gonna grab you
Oh you need this thing to grab you, ha
Yeah, yeah
Keep on running
Keep on running from my love
Keep on running, yeah
Keep on running from my love
Some folks say that you're really, really fine
All you wanna be is just a friend of mine
But I know, the man your with gonna break your heart
And you'll be sad real soon, yeah
Keep on running
Keep on running from my love
Keep on running, yeah
Keep on running from my love
Some folks say that you're really, really fine
But all you wanna be is just a friend of mine
But I know I'm gonna get you with him real soon
Why do you keep?
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Yeah, keep on running from
(Keep on running, running from my love)
I need you baby
(Keep on running, running from my love)
And everyday yeah
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Oh
Keep on running
Keep on running from my love
Keep on running yeah
Keep on running from my love
Some folks say that your love is really good
All you wanna be is just a friend of mine
But I know, I'm gonna get you in the end
'Cause I need you so
Keep on running
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Yeah, keep on running baby
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Ah, can you hear me so, yeah
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Ah, yeah
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Hey, you gonna say it loud
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Oh, yeah
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Uh, you can shout it loud
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Something gonna get you, yeah
(Keep on running, running from my love)
You can get it baby in my love
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Oh, yeah say
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Sing I love you so
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Sing, so
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Sing a little song for me
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Baby, you can bring me love
(Keep on running, running from my love)
I wanna hear
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Na na na na na na yeah
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Everybody sing it with me, yeah
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Some's gonna grab you
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Some's gonna jump out of the bushes and grab you, yeah
(Keep on running, running from my love)
keep on running baby
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Oh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh
(Keep on running, running from my love)
This is it
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
Keep on running
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Oh, yeh, yeah
(Keep on running, running from my love)
I'm getting tired of you running
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Can you feel it in the shoe babe?
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Hey, hey
(Keep on running, running from my love)
Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, mama, mama, mama
(Keep on running, running from my love)
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