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"
I been thinking about those things you said
I been thinking about those things we did
I been thinking about those you do
I been thinking about those things you made me do too
Be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
I was hypnotized
By your fairy eyes
Like a tiger in the dark
You were hungry from the start
be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
diamonds candy pills
One million dollar bills
You can try
But you can't buy me, buy me
slide slide
Slippity slide
You can hip hop
You can't stop
'cause I'll never be
On my knees
you can slide slide
Slippity slide
You can hip hop
You can't stop
'cause I'll never be
On my knees
when I saw you on the street
I just had to look away
You were so sweet
Sexy steez
Lay back relax
Street boy please
Wait a second its gonna take awhile
slide slide
Slippity slide
You can hip hop
You can't stop
'cause I'll never be
On my knees
you can slide slide
Slippity slide
You can hip hop
You can't stop
'cause I'll never be
On my knees
I been thinking about why you act so proud
I been thinking about what this shits about
Am I losing control
Am I losing my soul
Just tell me am I losing you
be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
diamonds candy pills
One million dollar bills
You can try
But you can't buy me, buy me
you can slide slide
Slippity slide
You can hip hop
You can't stop
'cause I'll never be
On my knees
You can slide slide
Slippity slide
You can hip hop
You can't stop
'cause I'll never be
On my knees
I been thinking about
I been thinking about
I been thinking about
I been thinking about
Losing you
I been thinking about those things we did
I been thinking about those you do
I been thinking about those things you made me do too
Be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
I was hypnotized
By your fairy eyes
Like a tiger in the dark
You were hungry from the start
be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
diamonds candy pills
One million dollar bills
You can try
But you can't buy me, buy me
slide slide
Slippity slide
You can hip hop
You can't stop
'cause I'll never be
On my knees
you can slide slide
Slippity slide
You can hip hop
You can't stop
'cause I'll never be
On my knees
when I saw you on the street
I just had to look away
You were so sweet
Sexy steez
Lay back relax
Street boy please
Wait a second its gonna take awhile
slide slide
Slippity slide
You can hip hop
You can't stop
'cause I'll never be
On my knees
you can slide slide
Slippity slide
You can hip hop
You can't stop
'cause I'll never be
On my knees
I been thinking about why you act so proud
I been thinking about what this shits about
Am I losing control
Am I losing my soul
Just tell me am I losing you
be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
Be my boy
diamonds candy pills
One million dollar bills
You can try
But you can't buy me, buy me
you can slide slide
Slippity slide
You can hip hop
You can't stop
'cause I'll never be
On my knees
You can slide slide
Slippity slide
You can hip hop
You can't stop
'cause I'll never be
On my knees
I been thinking about
I been thinking about
I been thinking about
I been thinking about
Losing you
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I've Been Thinking Lyrics as written by Chan Marshall Paul E. Huston
Lyrics © Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Exploration Group LLC, Hipgnosis Songs Group
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