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"
Lately I've got this funny feeling
Something don't feel the same
But he's telling me I'm the one to blame
Yes, I know he still gives me good loving
But when he is deep inside
There's somebody else in his eyes
Don't waste your time
But it gets so hard to know
Just Walk away
You say that I gotta let go
Seen it a million times before
You shouldn't take his shh, no more
Can't waste my time
It's not hard to know
I should walk away
Girl, you gotta let him go
Seen it a million times before
I shouldn't take his shh no more
Girl, it goes much deeper than what you're thinking
When something don't feel the same
You better believe his love has changed
From what you're telling me, any fool can see
He's got a love on the side
Stop making truth out of his lies
Don't waste your time
But it gets so hard to know
Just walk away
You say that I gotta let go
Seen it a million times before
You shouldn't take his shh, no more
Can't waste my time
It's not hard to know
I should walk away
Girl, you gotta let him go
Seen it a million times before
I shouldn't take his shh, no more
What's the point of love if you've got no trust
What's the point of stayin' when you've seen enough
Why should you keep giving what he don't deserve
This is a lesson I'm not sure I want to learn
Can't waste my time
It's not hard to know
I should walk away
Girl, you gotta let him go
Seen it a million times before
I shouldn't take his shh, no more
Something don't feel the same
But he's telling me I'm the one to blame
Yes, I know he still gives me good loving
But when he is deep inside
There's somebody else in his eyes
Don't waste your time
But it gets so hard to know
Just Walk away
You say that I gotta let go
Seen it a million times before
You shouldn't take his shh, no more
Can't waste my time
It's not hard to know
I should walk away
Girl, you gotta let him go
Seen it a million times before
I shouldn't take his shh no more
Girl, it goes much deeper than what you're thinking
When something don't feel the same
You better believe his love has changed
From what you're telling me, any fool can see
He's got a love on the side
Stop making truth out of his lies
Don't waste your time
But it gets so hard to know
Just walk away
You say that I gotta let go
Seen it a million times before
You shouldn't take his shh, no more
Can't waste my time
It's not hard to know
I should walk away
Girl, you gotta let him go
Seen it a million times before
I shouldn't take his shh, no more
What's the point of love if you've got no trust
What's the point of stayin' when you've seen enough
Why should you keep giving what he don't deserve
This is a lesson I'm not sure I want to learn
Can't waste my time
It's not hard to know
I should walk away
Girl, you gotta let him go
Seen it a million times before
I shouldn't take his shh, no more
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Don't Waste Your Time Lyrics as written by Joshua Gen Rubin Denise Rich
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