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, Madonna, Madonna
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
I don't miss you
Just who you used to be
And you don't ring true
So please stop calling me
Your I love you's are ten a penny
You're dropping clues like you've got any
You've got to choose, there's been so many
I love you, baby
But face it, she's Madonna
No man on earth
Could say that he don't want her
This look of love
Says I'm leaving
You're frozen now
I've done the freezing
I'm walking out
Madonna's calling me
She's got to be
Obscene to be believed
That's her routine
Not what she means to me
I found myself by circumstance
Across a room where people dance
And quite by chance
She danced right next me
I love you, baby
But face it, she's Madonna
No man on earth would say
That he don't want her
It's me not you
I've got to move on
You're younger too
But she's got her groove on
I'm sorry, love
Madonna's calling me
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
I want to tell you a secret
We're having drinks
With Kate and Stella
Gwyneth's here
She's brought her fella
But all I wanna do
Is take Madonna home
I love you, baby
But face it, she's Madonna
No man on earth would say
That he don't want her
It's me not you
I've got to move on
You're younger too
But she's got her groove on
I'm sorry, love
Madonna's calling me
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
I don't miss you
Just who you used to be
And you don't ring true
So please stop calling me
Your I love you's are ten a penny
You're dropping clues like you've got any
You've got to choose, there's been so many
I love you, baby
But face it, she's Madonna
No man on earth
Could say that he don't want her
This look of love
Says I'm leaving
You're frozen now
I've done the freezing
I'm walking out
Madonna's calling me
She's got to be
Obscene to be believed
That's her routine
Not what she means to me
I found myself by circumstance
Across a room where people dance
And quite by chance
She danced right next me
I love you, baby
But face it, she's Madonna
No man on earth would say
That he don't want her
It's me not you
I've got to move on
You're younger too
But she's got her groove on
I'm sorry, love
Madonna's calling me
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
I want to tell you a secret
We're having drinks
With Kate and Stella
Gwyneth's here
She's brought her fella
But all I wanna do
Is take Madonna home
I love you, baby
But face it, she's Madonna
No man on earth would say
That he don't want her
It's me not you
I've got to move on
You're younger too
But she's got her groove on
I'm sorry, love
Madonna's calling me
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She's Madonna Lyrics as written by Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
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