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"
It's the morning
The white light hits your face
Your head upon that pillow
I let you radiate
You spend all day
Twisted up in sheets
One of those days
One of those moments
You just, make me happy
It's amazing the happiness you bring no, no
I never had no cold night with you here next to me
So we, we take our time
Living it up loving life
So why
It's one of those days
One of those moments
You make me happy
I need your lovin
And your kisses too
Make that stomach
Do that butterfly thing
Don't you feel the same?
Tell me love
Tell me love
Do I
Do I make you happy?
Oooooo, Oooooo
Oh you inspire me
Never needed love
No, no not me
Tell me love
Do I, do I
Do I inspire you?
Never need a no, no, no
Not you
Tell me love
Do I
Do I make you happy?
Cause I'm a lucky man
For all the love
I never had to have
No competition, no good advice
Just some undercover lovin
Till we get it right
Said "Hey what about that shake"
Will you rattle and roll like you did before?
Here's to making up the rhythm as you go?
Here's to making up
Here's to making love
It's making me happy
Oooooo, Oooooo
Ooo You inspire me
Never need another love
No not me
Tell me love
Do I, do I
Do I inspire you?
Never need a no, no, no
Not you
Tell me love
Do I
Do I make you happy?
Cause I'm startin to flame and no one can tame it
Cause you make me happy
I wanna go home with you
So we can, so we can get happy
Never need no reason to come to you
Cause you make me happy
Oooo what about you
Oooooo, Oooooo
Ooo You inspire me
Never need another love
No not me
Tell me love
Do I, do I
Do I inspire you?
Never need a no, no, no
Not you
Tell me love
Do I
Do I
Do I inspire you?
Never need a no, no, no
Not you
Tell me love
Do I
Do I
Do I inspire you?
Never need a no, no, no
Not you
Tell me love
Do I
Do I make you happy?
Do I make you happy?
Cause you make me happy
Do I make you happy?
Cause you make me happy
The white light hits your face
Your head upon that pillow
I let you radiate
You spend all day
Twisted up in sheets
One of those days
One of those moments
You just, make me happy
It's amazing the happiness you bring no, no
I never had no cold night with you here next to me
So we, we take our time
Living it up loving life
So why
It's one of those days
One of those moments
You make me happy
I need your lovin
And your kisses too
Make that stomach
Do that butterfly thing
Don't you feel the same?
Tell me love
Tell me love
Do I
Do I make you happy?
Oooooo, Oooooo
Oh you inspire me
Never needed love
No, no not me
Tell me love
Do I, do I
Do I inspire you?
Never need a no, no, no
Not you
Tell me love
Do I
Do I make you happy?
Cause I'm a lucky man
For all the love
I never had to have
No competition, no good advice
Just some undercover lovin
Till we get it right
Said "Hey what about that shake"
Will you rattle and roll like you did before?
Here's to making up the rhythm as you go?
Here's to making up
Here's to making love
It's making me happy
Oooooo, Oooooo
Ooo You inspire me
Never need another love
No not me
Tell me love
Do I, do I
Do I inspire you?
Never need a no, no, no
Not you
Tell me love
Do I
Do I make you happy?
Cause I'm startin to flame and no one can tame it
Cause you make me happy
I wanna go home with you
So we can, so we can get happy
Never need no reason to come to you
Cause you make me happy
Oooo what about you
Oooooo, Oooooo
Ooo You inspire me
Never need another love
No not me
Tell me love
Do I, do I
Do I inspire you?
Never need a no, no, no
Not you
Tell me love
Do I
Do I
Do I inspire you?
Never need a no, no, no
Not you
Tell me love
Do I
Do I
Do I inspire you?
Never need a no, no, no
Not you
Tell me love
Do I
Do I make you happy?
Do I make you happy?
Cause you make me happy
Do I make you happy?
Cause you make me happy
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