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 see you but I can't believe you're here
I can't believe you're near enough for me to touch
Why you're wanting me so much?
You're back
Back for one more try
But you should realize that things are different now
Ever since you quit
Coming around, bringing me down,
I said we were through, now I'm over you
But you could change my mind
Little girl, if you wanted to
When you look at me the way you do
I'm easy, so damn easy
You look so good and you look so fine
Girl, you know
You could change my mind
I hear you but I can't believe what you say
You're the one that got away from me so long ago
Don't act like you don't know
Why I can't make up my mind
I can't give you the time of day 'cause I'm afraid
That you'll just keep
Running away, what can I say,
I gotta go, the answer is no
But you could change my mind
Little girl, if you wanted to
When you look at me the way you do
I'm easy, so damn easy
You look so good and you look so fine
Girl, you know
You could change my mind
Take it on home, leave me alone,
I'll say it again, this is the end
But you could change my mind
Little girl, if you wanted to
When you look at me the way you do
I'm easy, yeah I'm easy
You look so good and you look so fine
Girl, you know
You could change my mind
You look so good and you so fine
Girl, you know
You could change my mind
Change my mind
I can't believe you're near enough for me to touch
Why you're wanting me so much?
You're back
Back for one more try
But you should realize that things are different now
Ever since you quit
Coming around, bringing me down,
I said we were through, now I'm over you
But you could change my mind
Little girl, if you wanted to
When you look at me the way you do
I'm easy, so damn easy
You look so good and you look so fine
Girl, you know
You could change my mind
I hear you but I can't believe what you say
You're the one that got away from me so long ago
Don't act like you don't know
Why I can't make up my mind
I can't give you the time of day 'cause I'm afraid
That you'll just keep
Running away, what can I say,
I gotta go, the answer is no
But you could change my mind
Little girl, if you wanted to
When you look at me the way you do
I'm easy, so damn easy
You look so good and you look so fine
Girl, you know
You could change my mind
Take it on home, leave me alone,
I'll say it again, this is the end
But you could change my mind
Little girl, if you wanted to
When you look at me the way you do
I'm easy, yeah I'm easy
You look so good and you look so fine
Girl, you know
You could change my mind
You look so good and you so fine
Girl, you know
You could change my mind
Change my mind
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