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"
Come on
Come on
Come on, Baby
Sit back, relax,
Take it easy baby, and let it go
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it to you
Sit back, relax, [Come on...]
Take it easy baby, and let it go
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it to you
Come on
Do you believe in yourself
'Cause I believe in you
I'm gonna be there by your side
And get to do what you gotta do
You wanna be your own man
Shake the world with your bare hands
Gotta have the best of it all
Be proud, and stand tall
No matter what you
No matter what you say
Things won't go your way
So when you're mad at the world
And all your feelings are hurt
Don't let it getcha
Ooh! Don't you let it to you
Sit back, relax,
Take it easy baby, and let it go
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it get to you
Sit back, relax,
Take it easy baby, and let it go
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it get to you
Just take it easy babe
It's all gonna be alright
Just take it easy baby
There's nothing greater than you
Because heaven said it was true
And I'm gonna pray every night
To make sure we got it right
You wanna do what you can
Work as hard and come to no end
You gotta prove to them all
You're alright
Ain't nothing wrong
No matter what you
No matter what you say
Things won't go your way
So when you're mad at the world
And all your feelings are hurt
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it get to you
Sit back, relax,
Take it easy baby, and let it go
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it get to you
Sit back, relax,
Take it easy baby, and let it go
Don't let it getcha
Don't you get let it to you
Just relax
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
No matter what
No matter what you say
Things won't go your way
So when you're mad at the world
And all your feelings are hurt
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it get to you
Sit back, relax,
Take it easy baby, and let it go
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it get to you
Sit back, relax,
Take it easy baby, and let it go
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it get to you
Sit back, relax,
Take it easy baby, and let it go
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it get to you
Come on
Come on, Baby
Sit back, relax,
Take it easy baby, and let it go
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it to you
Sit back, relax, [Come on...]
Take it easy baby, and let it go
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it to you
Come on
Do you believe in yourself
'Cause I believe in you
I'm gonna be there by your side
And get to do what you gotta do
You wanna be your own man
Shake the world with your bare hands
Gotta have the best of it all
Be proud, and stand tall
No matter what you
No matter what you say
Things won't go your way
So when you're mad at the world
And all your feelings are hurt
Don't let it getcha
Ooh! Don't you let it to you
Sit back, relax,
Take it easy baby, and let it go
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it get to you
Sit back, relax,
Take it easy baby, and let it go
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it get to you
Just take it easy babe
It's all gonna be alright
Just take it easy baby
There's nothing greater than you
Because heaven said it was true
And I'm gonna pray every night
To make sure we got it right
You wanna do what you can
Work as hard and come to no end
You gotta prove to them all
You're alright
Ain't nothing wrong
No matter what you
No matter what you say
Things won't go your way
So when you're mad at the world
And all your feelings are hurt
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it get to you
Sit back, relax,
Take it easy baby, and let it go
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it get to you
Sit back, relax,
Take it easy baby, and let it go
Don't let it getcha
Don't you get let it to you
Just relax
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
No matter what
No matter what you say
Things won't go your way
So when you're mad at the world
And all your feelings are hurt
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it get to you
Sit back, relax,
Take it easy baby, and let it go
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it get to you
Sit back, relax,
Take it easy baby, and let it go
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it get to you
Sit back, relax,
Take it easy baby, and let it go
Don't let it getcha
Don't you let it get to you
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