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'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
I feel like I've been just let out of a cage, girl
?Cause for so long for you I've had this crave, girl
I've waited patiently and now you're ready
And I can tell you feel being sexy when you smile at me
Well, enter, take it off, come here
Oh, you're so soft, see I would be your toy
Play with me like Lego, I'm your soldier boy
Girl, you'll get no angel
You skin so beautiful, sexy, so beautiful
I can't wait to find it, ride it, grind it
But first, girl will you wind it, wind it
Wind it for me, yeah, yeah?
And girl before we get into it
Tease me, baby, baby
Tease me, baby, baby
Here's a preview of what's about to go down
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
Girl, I'll be flipping your body
So I hope you acrobatic
Girl, you want my body
And I'm tryna be your habit
And I?ll push it and grab it
I'm in you, you're screaming
I wanna treat it like my house
If I could I?d live up in it
Enter, take it off, come here
Shawty you're so soft
I wanna lay you down and hit it ?cause my body been
Waiting, waiting, waiting, patiently waiting
And now that you're givin? it to me I can't take it
Take it, take it, girl I can't take it
Said, I'd be making noises
You'll be making noises, yey, yey, yeah
Girl, you be screaming deeper
I'll be going deeper, of course
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
Girl, I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
Lights of come jump on it baby, on it baby
Do you, ooh, ooh, want it baby, want it baby?
Shawty your skin is so delightful
The sex that we havin? is so monumental
Making love over and over again
Looking at your body, did you get a tan?
The way your body works from the touch of my hand
Thought you was a snake when I touched your skin, yeah
Enter, take it off, come here
Shawty, you're so soft
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
Girl, I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
I feel like I've been just let out of a cage, girl
?Cause for so long for you I've had this crave, girl
I've waited patiently and now you're ready
And I can tell you feel being sexy when you smile at me
Well, enter, take it off, come here
Oh, you're so soft, see I would be your toy
Play with me like Lego, I'm your soldier boy
Girl, you'll get no angel
You skin so beautiful, sexy, so beautiful
I can't wait to find it, ride it, grind it
But first, girl will you wind it, wind it
Wind it for me, yeah, yeah?
And girl before we get into it
Tease me, baby, baby
Tease me, baby, baby
Here's a preview of what's about to go down
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
Girl, I'll be flipping your body
So I hope you acrobatic
Girl, you want my body
And I'm tryna be your habit
And I?ll push it and grab it
I'm in you, you're screaming
I wanna treat it like my house
If I could I?d live up in it
Enter, take it off, come here
Shawty you're so soft
I wanna lay you down and hit it ?cause my body been
Waiting, waiting, waiting, patiently waiting
And now that you're givin? it to me I can't take it
Take it, take it, girl I can't take it
Said, I'd be making noises
You'll be making noises, yey, yey, yeah
Girl, you be screaming deeper
I'll be going deeper, of course
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
Girl, I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
Lights of come jump on it baby, on it baby
Do you, ooh, ooh, want it baby, want it baby?
Shawty your skin is so delightful
The sex that we havin? is so monumental
Making love over and over again
Looking at your body, did you get a tan?
The way your body works from the touch of my hand
Thought you was a snake when I touched your skin, yeah
Enter, take it off, come here
Shawty, you're so soft
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
Girl, I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
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Skin Lyrics as written by Phoebe Louise Cockburn Joseph Vaughan Clough
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Hipgnosis Songs Group
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