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"
Mmm mmm yeah yeah yeah oh yeah
Hi there, its me again
Let me lend your ear for just a minute
Here's something you should know
I made a wish and you were there
I said hey it's a lovely day,
I turned around as if I knew you
Turned around with a big big smile
There was magic everywhere
Ooh, we had a great time baby
We knew it would never end
Hey yeah...my oh my
Now I think we understand
[Chorus]
We're spinning round and round
Just like the planets do
But in this universe I'll fall in love with you
I've been searching high and low
I've been way down and up above
When I finely found you
On the planet of love
Yeah yeah mmh mmh
Say yeah
Let me take you there,
I show you life in all it's beauty
You turned around big big smile
There was magic everywhere
Ooh we had a good thing going
We gotta keep holding on
Hey yeah...my oh my
You're shining like the sun
[Chorus]
Take a look around you
Just wait and see
When love has finally found you
You will agree, yeah yeah,
I need you,
I need you, oh yeah yeah
Spinning around and around and around,
I'm you're planet of love
Ooh, come to me, come to me baby
[Chorus]
On the planet of love
We're spinning around and around and around
I'll fall in love with you,
Way down and up above
until I finally find you on the planet of love
Yeah mmm mmm
Hi there, its me again
Let me lend your ear for just a minute
Here's something you should know
I made a wish and you were there
I said hey it's a lovely day,
I turned around as if I knew you
Turned around with a big big smile
There was magic everywhere
Ooh, we had a great time baby
We knew it would never end
Hey yeah...my oh my
Now I think we understand
[Chorus]
We're spinning round and round
Just like the planets do
But in this universe I'll fall in love with you
I've been searching high and low
I've been way down and up above
When I finely found you
On the planet of love
Yeah yeah mmh mmh
Say yeah
Let me take you there,
I show you life in all it's beauty
You turned around big big smile
There was magic everywhere
Ooh we had a good thing going
We gotta keep holding on
Hey yeah...my oh my
You're shining like the sun
[Chorus]
Take a look around you
Just wait and see
When love has finally found you
You will agree, yeah yeah,
I need you,
I need you, oh yeah yeah
Spinning around and around and around,
I'm you're planet of love
Ooh, come to me, come to me baby
[Chorus]
On the planet of love
We're spinning around and around and around
I'll fall in love with you,
Way down and up above
until I finally find you on the planet of love
Yeah mmm mmm
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