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"
(Hmm, oh)
Oh baby, baby
My love I must confess
I don't know what to do
(Please tell me what is wrong)
You're seeing someone else
But I really care for you
(Please tell me girl how long)
It's been a little while
And mama thinks I'm wrong
(Sure you're right, I know you're right yeah)
Oh yes she does
She thinks that you're the one
And you and I belong, ooh
(Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm)
So if you take me back
I promise to be true
(Will you? Will you?)
I've made up in my mind
That all I want is you
All I want is you
But baby I've been cheating
All I want is you
Don't know what I was thinking
I've made up my mind
It's time to say goodbye
To him and him and all the other men
Cause all I want is you
My love I must confess
I care for him it's true
(Girl I ain't gon' play no fool, no)
I've still been seeing him
While I've been seeing you
(So what'cha gonna do?)
He wants to settle down
What you don't want to do
Why won't your marry me baby-babe?
(Oh)
I thought you came around (Oh)
But you just can't be moved (Oh)
But I made up in my mind
That what you want is cool
(Baby, yeah)
As long as you're around
Then all I want is you
All I want is you
But baby I've been cheating
All I want is you
Don't know what I was thinking
I've made up my mind
It's time to say goodbye
To him and him and all the other men
'Cause all I want is you
All I want is you
But baby I've been cheating
All I want is you
Don't know what I was thinking
I've made up my mind
It's time to say goodbye
To him and him and all the other men
'Cause all I want is you
But, but, but, but
You've been playing games
(Do you really love me girl?)
Oh yes I do (Do you really?)
I do love you but it's not the same
Sorry that I told a lie
But I couldn't say goodbye
All I want is you
But baby I've been cheating
All I want is you
Don't know what I was thinking
I've made up my mind
It's time to say goodbye
To him and him and all the other men
Cause all I want is you
All I want is you
But baby I've been cheating
All I want is you
Don't know what I was thinking
I've made up my mind
It's time to say goodbye
To him and him and all the other men
'Cause all I want is you
All I want is you
But baby I've been cheating
All I want is you
Don't know what I was thinking
I've made up my mind
It's time to say goodbye
To him and him and all the other men
'Cause all I want is you
I got you over here
I got him over there
And all I want is you
(Prove it baby)
To be my teddy bear
(Prove it baby)
Oh baby, baby, baby
(I'm crying inside, oh, oh, oh)
All the other men
(Ooh wee)
All I want is you
All I want is you
(Somebody help me, somebody help me)
Don't know what to do
(Somebody help me)
Tell me what to do, hey, hey
(Kelly don't do this, Kelly don't it, don't it)
(Kelly, Kelly don't do it)
Gerald baby, K-Ci baby
All I want is oh, oh, oh
Oh baby, baby
My love I must confess
I don't know what to do
(Please tell me what is wrong)
You're seeing someone else
But I really care for you
(Please tell me girl how long)
It's been a little while
And mama thinks I'm wrong
(Sure you're right, I know you're right yeah)
Oh yes she does
She thinks that you're the one
And you and I belong, ooh
(Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm)
So if you take me back
I promise to be true
(Will you? Will you?)
I've made up in my mind
That all I want is you
All I want is you
But baby I've been cheating
All I want is you
Don't know what I was thinking
I've made up my mind
It's time to say goodbye
To him and him and all the other men
Cause all I want is you
My love I must confess
I care for him it's true
(Girl I ain't gon' play no fool, no)
I've still been seeing him
While I've been seeing you
(So what'cha gonna do?)
He wants to settle down
What you don't want to do
Why won't your marry me baby-babe?
(Oh)
I thought you came around (Oh)
But you just can't be moved (Oh)
But I made up in my mind
That what you want is cool
(Baby, yeah)
As long as you're around
Then all I want is you
All I want is you
But baby I've been cheating
All I want is you
Don't know what I was thinking
I've made up my mind
It's time to say goodbye
To him and him and all the other men
'Cause all I want is you
All I want is you
But baby I've been cheating
All I want is you
Don't know what I was thinking
I've made up my mind
It's time to say goodbye
To him and him and all the other men
'Cause all I want is you
But, but, but, but
You've been playing games
(Do you really love me girl?)
Oh yes I do (Do you really?)
I do love you but it's not the same
Sorry that I told a lie
But I couldn't say goodbye
All I want is you
But baby I've been cheating
All I want is you
Don't know what I was thinking
I've made up my mind
It's time to say goodbye
To him and him and all the other men
Cause all I want is you
All I want is you
But baby I've been cheating
All I want is you
Don't know what I was thinking
I've made up my mind
It's time to say goodbye
To him and him and all the other men
'Cause all I want is you
All I want is you
But baby I've been cheating
All I want is you
Don't know what I was thinking
I've made up my mind
It's time to say goodbye
To him and him and all the other men
'Cause all I want is you
I got you over here
I got him over there
And all I want is you
(Prove it baby)
To be my teddy bear
(Prove it baby)
Oh baby, baby, baby
(I'm crying inside, oh, oh, oh)
All the other men
(Ooh wee)
All I want is you
All I want is you
(Somebody help me, somebody help me)
Don't know what to do
(Somebody help me)
Tell me what to do, hey, hey
(Kelly don't do this, Kelly don't it, don't it)
(Kelly, Kelly don't do it)
Gerald baby, K-Ci baby
All I want is oh, oh, oh
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