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"
Just one on one!
That's the way we do it (baby)
Just one on one!
That's the way we do it
Just one on one!
That's the way we do it (baby)
Just one on one!
That's the way we do it
Baby, I can't always say what's on my mind, yeah
New sensations
Got me!
Breaking out the love I feel inside
Yeah, I'll take you to a wonderland
You hit me right between the eyes
I shoulda listened to ma mamma done told me!!
You sent me soaring to the skies
Ain't gonna listen to ma mamma done told me!!!
Girl, this paradise is ours
The planet moon and stars
Believe in me baby (you've got to believe)
Believe in me baby (be the first to believe)
Baby, elevate our love into the skies
Yeah, cool vibrations
Rock me!
Fly me up to heaven in your eyes
Yeah, it's magic when you hypnotise
You hit me right between the eyes
I shoulda listened to ma mamma done told me!!
You sent me soaring to the skies
Ain't gonna listen to ma mamma done told me!!!
Girl, this paradise is ours
The planet moon and stars
Believe in me baby (yeah you gotta believe)
Believe in me baby (be the first to believe)
Believe in me baby (you got to believe)
Believe in me baby (said be the first to believe)
And be the first to believe
Just one on one!
That's the way we do it (baby)
Just one on one
That's the way we do it
Just one on one!
That's the way we do it (baby)
Just one on one
That's the way we do it
(just one on one)
Girl, this paradise is ours
(just one on one)
The planet moon and stars
(just one on one)
Girl, this paradise is ours
(just one on one)
The planet moon and stars
Believe in me baby (you got to believe)
Believe in me baby (be the first to believe)
Believe in me baby (you got to believe)
Believe in me baby (said be the first to believe)
Believe in me baby (you got to believe)
Believe in me baby (be the first to believe)
Believe in me baby (you got to believe)
Believe in me baby (you gotta be the first to believe)
Just one on one
Just one on one
Just one on one
Just one on one
Be the first to believe
That's the way we do it (baby)
Just one on one!
That's the way we do it
Just one on one!
That's the way we do it (baby)
Just one on one!
That's the way we do it
Baby, I can't always say what's on my mind, yeah
New sensations
Got me!
Breaking out the love I feel inside
Yeah, I'll take you to a wonderland
You hit me right between the eyes
I shoulda listened to ma mamma done told me!!
You sent me soaring to the skies
Ain't gonna listen to ma mamma done told me!!!
Girl, this paradise is ours
The planet moon and stars
Believe in me baby (you've got to believe)
Believe in me baby (be the first to believe)
Baby, elevate our love into the skies
Yeah, cool vibrations
Rock me!
Fly me up to heaven in your eyes
Yeah, it's magic when you hypnotise
You hit me right between the eyes
I shoulda listened to ma mamma done told me!!
You sent me soaring to the skies
Ain't gonna listen to ma mamma done told me!!!
Girl, this paradise is ours
The planet moon and stars
Believe in me baby (yeah you gotta believe)
Believe in me baby (be the first to believe)
Believe in me baby (you got to believe)
Believe in me baby (said be the first to believe)
And be the first to believe
Just one on one!
That's the way we do it (baby)
Just one on one
That's the way we do it
Just one on one!
That's the way we do it (baby)
Just one on one
That's the way we do it
(just one on one)
Girl, this paradise is ours
(just one on one)
The planet moon and stars
(just one on one)
Girl, this paradise is ours
(just one on one)
The planet moon and stars
Believe in me baby (you got to believe)
Believe in me baby (be the first to believe)
Believe in me baby (you got to believe)
Believe in me baby (said be the first to believe)
Believe in me baby (you got to believe)
Believe in me baby (be the first to believe)
Believe in me baby (you got to believe)
Believe in me baby (you gotta be the first to believe)
Just one on one
Just one on one
Just one on one
Just one on one
Be the first to believe
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