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"
[Intro]
Girls
I'm about hip you to some game
Here we go now.
[Hook]
If you want another date, I'll show ya
Gather round girls, listen closer
Know about football, basketball too
Know all the players, know all the rules,
If you gotta know the way, I'll show you
Pay attention you need to know how to
Hook up a meal,
Learn a new move
The way to his heart is sports, sex and food
(You Need To Know About It)
[Verse 1]
There's a misconception why'all,
Girls you thinkin to hard
You at the club shakinâ?? it all night
And wonder why you can't find mister right
(Wrong, wrong, wrong
Girl you are wrong, wrong, wrong)
It's got to be you don't know
All the places you could go
Gonâ?? to the gym
You ain't gotta be slim
Just strut your stuff and you'll attract him
[Hook]
If you want another date, I'll show ya
Gather round girls, listen closer
Know about football, basketball too
Know all the players, know all the rules,
If you gotta know the way, I'll show you
Pay attention you need to know how to
Hook up a meal,
Learn a new move
The way to his heart is sports, sex and food
(If You want to Keep Him...Yeah)
[Verse 2]
Ain't no hair ever kept a man
Girl go on, switch up your plan
Contrary to what you need
In a raggedy ponytail and jeans
(And that's true, true, true,
Baby that's true, true, true)
You ain't gotta take my word,
But I promise you'll get 'em if you do
(Do, do, do
Get â??em if you do, do, do)
[Hook]
If you want another date, I'll show ya
Gather round girls, listen closer
Know about football, basketball too
Know all the players, know all the rules,
If you gotta know the way, I'll show you
Pay attention you need to know how to
Hook up a meal,
Learn a new move
The way to his heart is sports, sex and food
[Outro]
Now Girls
I said all that I can say
Itâ??s up to you now...
[Hook]
If you want another date, I'll show ya
Gather round girls, listen closer
Know about football, basketball too
Know all the players, know all the rules,
If you gotta know the way, I'll show you
Pay attention you need to know how to
Hook up a meal,
Learn a new move
The way to his heart is sports, sex and food
Girls
I'm about hip you to some game
Here we go now.
[Hook]
If you want another date, I'll show ya
Gather round girls, listen closer
Know about football, basketball too
Know all the players, know all the rules,
If you gotta know the way, I'll show you
Pay attention you need to know how to
Hook up a meal,
Learn a new move
The way to his heart is sports, sex and food
(You Need To Know About It)
[Verse 1]
There's a misconception why'all,
Girls you thinkin to hard
You at the club shakinâ?? it all night
And wonder why you can't find mister right
(Wrong, wrong, wrong
Girl you are wrong, wrong, wrong)
It's got to be you don't know
All the places you could go
Gonâ?? to the gym
You ain't gotta be slim
Just strut your stuff and you'll attract him
[Hook]
If you want another date, I'll show ya
Gather round girls, listen closer
Know about football, basketball too
Know all the players, know all the rules,
If you gotta know the way, I'll show you
Pay attention you need to know how to
Hook up a meal,
Learn a new move
The way to his heart is sports, sex and food
(If You want to Keep Him...Yeah)
[Verse 2]
Ain't no hair ever kept a man
Girl go on, switch up your plan
Contrary to what you need
In a raggedy ponytail and jeans
(And that's true, true, true,
Baby that's true, true, true)
You ain't gotta take my word,
But I promise you'll get 'em if you do
(Do, do, do
Get â??em if you do, do, do)
[Hook]
If you want another date, I'll show ya
Gather round girls, listen closer
Know about football, basketball too
Know all the players, know all the rules,
If you gotta know the way, I'll show you
Pay attention you need to know how to
Hook up a meal,
Learn a new move
The way to his heart is sports, sex and food
[Outro]
Now Girls
I said all that I can say
Itâ??s up to you now...
[Hook]
If you want another date, I'll show ya
Gather round girls, listen closer
Know about football, basketball too
Know all the players, know all the rules,
If you gotta know the way, I'll show you
Pay attention you need to know how to
Hook up a meal,
Learn a new move
The way to his heart is sports, sex and food
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