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"
You gave me love, you did me wrong
Didn't know what to do
But baby, I'm strong, gonna get over you
A new boy I'm gonna choose, you'll see
My love was true, still you threw it all away
Now other guys will have me, they'll appreciate my love
Tell me, how does it feel
You know that I needed you
You know that you meant the world to me
You know I had to have you
Now I'm gonna find somebody new
I'm looking for a new love, baby
A new love, yeah yeah yeah
I'm looking for a new love, baby
A new love, yeah yeah yeah
Was she hot, did she turn you out?
Curiosity rules my brain
Was she worth my heart? It's torn all apart
Are you going back again? Tell me
My love was true, still you threw it all away
But now you're like the rest, unworthy of my best
Hasta la vista, baby
You know that I needed you
You know that you meant the world to me
You know I had to have you
Now I'm gonna find somebody new
I'm looking for a new love, baby
A new love, yeah yeah yeah
I'm looking for a new love, baby
A new love, yeah yeah yeah
I'm looking for a new love, baby
A new love, yeah yeah yeah
I'm looking for a new love, baby
A new love, yeah yeah yeah
Other guys will have me, they'll appreciate my love
Tell me, how does it feel
Now you're like the rest, unworthy of my best
Hasta la vista, baby
I'm looking for a new love baby, a new love
I'm looking for a new love baby, a new love
I'm looking for a new love baby, a new love
Didn't know what to do
But baby, I'm strong, gonna get over you
A new boy I'm gonna choose, you'll see
My love was true, still you threw it all away
Now other guys will have me, they'll appreciate my love
Tell me, how does it feel
You know that I needed you
You know that you meant the world to me
You know I had to have you
Now I'm gonna find somebody new
I'm looking for a new love, baby
A new love, yeah yeah yeah
I'm looking for a new love, baby
A new love, yeah yeah yeah
Was she hot, did she turn you out?
Curiosity rules my brain
Was she worth my heart? It's torn all apart
Are you going back again? Tell me
My love was true, still you threw it all away
But now you're like the rest, unworthy of my best
Hasta la vista, baby
You know that I needed you
You know that you meant the world to me
You know I had to have you
Now I'm gonna find somebody new
I'm looking for a new love, baby
A new love, yeah yeah yeah
I'm looking for a new love, baby
A new love, yeah yeah yeah
I'm looking for a new love, baby
A new love, yeah yeah yeah
I'm looking for a new love, baby
A new love, yeah yeah yeah
Other guys will have me, they'll appreciate my love
Tell me, how does it feel
Now you're like the rest, unworthy of my best
Hasta la vista, baby
I'm looking for a new love baby, a new love
I'm looking for a new love baby, a new love
I'm looking for a new love baby, a new love
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