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"
Sometimes I see you
You r so happy when I'm around
Then you change yo mind and look at me
Like I let you down
You used to return phone calls
Visited me often
Something's changed its not the same
I just don't know
Now I don't understand you
Why you do the things you do
I never know
Been through this a time or two
Don't wanna feel like this no more
If I ask a question
You ask the same question
Why don't you answer
Instead of all this back and forth
Here we go again
Both of us pullin'
In different directions
In a game of tug of war
Why you keep fightin'
So hard to be right when
It doesn't matter
Tell me what we fightin' for
You bout to loose me
And I'm goin' be lonely so why do we both keep
Pullin' in this tug of war
Holdin' on to you
Is like I'm gambling my heart
If I let go
I will fall
Hard
I'll hurt myself ooh
Never forget who
Let go of me
And never said I'm sorry boo
Now I don't understand you
Why you do the things you do
I never know
Been through this a time or two
Don't wanna feel like this no more
If I ask a question
You ask the same question
Why don't you answer
Instead of all this back and forth
Here we go again
Both of us pullin'
In different directions
In a game of tug of war
Why you keep fightin'
So hard to be right when
It doesn't matter
Tell me what we fightin' for
You bout to loose me
And I'm gone be lonely so why do we both keep
Pullin' in this tug of war
Let's hold on or move on together
Do what it takes to make it better
If you keep one end I will give in
Or we let go then we both win
If I ask a question
You ask the same question
Why don't you answer
Instead of all this back and forth
Here we go again
Both of us pullin'
In different directions
In a game of tug of war
Why you keep fightin'
So hard to be right when
It doesn't matter
Tell me what we fightin' for
You bout to loose me
And I'm gone be lonely so why do we both keep
Pullin' in this tug of war
You r so happy when I'm around
Then you change yo mind and look at me
Like I let you down
You used to return phone calls
Visited me often
Something's changed its not the same
I just don't know
Now I don't understand you
Why you do the things you do
I never know
Been through this a time or two
Don't wanna feel like this no more
If I ask a question
You ask the same question
Why don't you answer
Instead of all this back and forth
Here we go again
Both of us pullin'
In different directions
In a game of tug of war
Why you keep fightin'
So hard to be right when
It doesn't matter
Tell me what we fightin' for
You bout to loose me
And I'm goin' be lonely so why do we both keep
Pullin' in this tug of war
Holdin' on to you
Is like I'm gambling my heart
If I let go
I will fall
Hard
I'll hurt myself ooh
Never forget who
Let go of me
And never said I'm sorry boo
Now I don't understand you
Why you do the things you do
I never know
Been through this a time or two
Don't wanna feel like this no more
If I ask a question
You ask the same question
Why don't you answer
Instead of all this back and forth
Here we go again
Both of us pullin'
In different directions
In a game of tug of war
Why you keep fightin'
So hard to be right when
It doesn't matter
Tell me what we fightin' for
You bout to loose me
And I'm gone be lonely so why do we both keep
Pullin' in this tug of war
Let's hold on or move on together
Do what it takes to make it better
If you keep one end I will give in
Or we let go then we both win
If I ask a question
You ask the same question
Why don't you answer
Instead of all this back and forth
Here we go again
Both of us pullin'
In different directions
In a game of tug of war
Why you keep fightin'
So hard to be right when
It doesn't matter
Tell me what we fightin' for
You bout to loose me
And I'm gone be lonely so why do we both keep
Pullin' in this tug of war
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Tug of War Lyrics as written by Bryan Cox Algebra Blessett
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