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"
Oh yeah
Somebody told me
"Boy, everything she wants is everything she sees"
I guess I must have loved you
Because I said you were the perfect girl for me, baby
And now we're six months older
And everything you want and everything you see
Is out of reach, not good enough
I don't know what the hell you want from, ooh
Somebody tell me, ooh
Why I work so hard for you?
All to give you money
All to give you money, ouh
Some people work for a living
Some people work for fun
Girl, I just work for you
You told me marriage was a give and take
Well, show me you can take you've got some giving to do
And now you tell me that you're having my baby
I'll tell you that I'm happy if you want me to
One step further and my back will break
If my best isn't good enough
Than how can it be good enough for two?
I can't work any harder than I do
Somebody tell me, ooh
Why I work so hard for you?
All to give you money
All to give you money, ouh
Ouh
Why do I do the things I do?
I'd tell you if I knew
My God, I don't even think that I love you
Ouh
All to give you money
All to give you money, ooh, yeah
Tell me, tell me, tell me
How could you settle for a boy like me,
When all I could see was the end of the week
All the things we sign
And the things we buy
Ain't gonna keep us together
Girl, it's just a matter of time
It's just a matter of time
Somebody tell me, ooh
Somebody
Why I work so hard for you?
All to give you money
All to give you money
Somebody tell me, ooh
Somebody
Why I work so hard for you?
Somebody told me
"Boy, everything she wants is everything she sees"
I guess I must have loved you
Because I said you were the perfect girl for me, baby
And now we're six months older
And everything you want and everything you see
Is out of reach, not good enough
I don't know what the hell you want from, ooh
Somebody tell me, ooh
Why I work so hard for you?
All to give you money
All to give you money, ouh
Some people work for a living
Some people work for fun
Girl, I just work for you
You told me marriage was a give and take
Well, show me you can take you've got some giving to do
And now you tell me that you're having my baby
I'll tell you that I'm happy if you want me to
One step further and my back will break
If my best isn't good enough
Than how can it be good enough for two?
I can't work any harder than I do
Somebody tell me, ooh
Why I work so hard for you?
All to give you money
All to give you money, ouh
Ouh
Why do I do the things I do?
I'd tell you if I knew
My God, I don't even think that I love you
Ouh
All to give you money
All to give you money, ooh, yeah
Tell me, tell me, tell me
How could you settle for a boy like me,
When all I could see was the end of the week
All the things we sign
And the things we buy
Ain't gonna keep us together
Girl, it's just a matter of time
It's just a matter of time
Somebody tell me, ooh
Somebody
Why I work so hard for you?
All to give you money
All to give you money
Somebody tell me, ooh
Somebody
Why I work so hard for you?
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Everything She Wants Lyrics as written by George Michael
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