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"
This relationship is over
Though my stomach still hurts
And now I'm gonna live alone
Why is the pain much worse?
You look so much better without makeup
Why would you hide your face?
Don't want to spend the night and wake up
Realize I've made a big mistake
Oh, I cannot refuse your eyes
Please don't look at me tonight
My heart beats fast I know you're there
I pretend like I don't care
It hurts so bad to know the truth
But I am still in love with you
I never meant to keep you waiting
And now your food is getting cold
I keep denying I'm in love with you
My routine is getting old
And now you stand in front of the table
And say you never look back
Do something stupid when you're angry
You only wake up sad
Oh, I cannot refuse your eyes
Please don't look at me tonight
My heart beats fast I know you're there
And I pretend like I don't care
It hurts so bad to know the truth
Well girl, I'm still in love with you
It hurts too much to know the truth
Well girl, I'm still in love with you
No more kisses on your lips or tender touches, please
I'd rather die on my two feet than live down on my knees
And all because you get me opened up and start to bleed
And I just cant get over you and until you're over me
I cannot refuse your eyes
Please don't look at me tonight
My heart beats fast I know you're there
And I pretend like I don't care
And I cannot refuse your eyes
Please don't look at me tonight
My heart beats fast I know you're there
And I'll pretend like I don't care
It hurts so bad to know the truth
Well girl, I'm still in love with you
It hurts too much to know the truth
Well girl, I'm still in love with you
Though my stomach still hurts
And now I'm gonna live alone
Why is the pain much worse?
You look so much better without makeup
Why would you hide your face?
Don't want to spend the night and wake up
Realize I've made a big mistake
Oh, I cannot refuse your eyes
Please don't look at me tonight
My heart beats fast I know you're there
I pretend like I don't care
It hurts so bad to know the truth
But I am still in love with you
I never meant to keep you waiting
And now your food is getting cold
I keep denying I'm in love with you
My routine is getting old
And now you stand in front of the table
And say you never look back
Do something stupid when you're angry
You only wake up sad
Oh, I cannot refuse your eyes
Please don't look at me tonight
My heart beats fast I know you're there
And I pretend like I don't care
It hurts so bad to know the truth
Well girl, I'm still in love with you
It hurts too much to know the truth
Well girl, I'm still in love with you
No more kisses on your lips or tender touches, please
I'd rather die on my two feet than live down on my knees
And all because you get me opened up and start to bleed
And I just cant get over you and until you're over me
I cannot refuse your eyes
Please don't look at me tonight
My heart beats fast I know you're there
And I pretend like I don't care
And I cannot refuse your eyes
Please don't look at me tonight
My heart beats fast I know you're there
And I'll pretend like I don't care
It hurts so bad to know the truth
Well girl, I'm still in love with you
It hurts too much to know the truth
Well girl, I'm still in love with you
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Until You're Over Me Lyrics as written by Adam Levine
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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