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 seen you darlin'
Seen you hangin' round town
You in a short skirt
Shinin' eyes of deep brown
You had a dirty look
You caught me on your hook
Turn up the thermostat
I wanna see you sweat
Ah, yeah
Girl you've got something I
Like
I walked right over, said
Hi, how you doin'
You smiled at me
And girl you tore right through me
I said "Come on, let's dance
We've gotta take our chance"
You whispered in my ear
"You wanna get out of here"
Can you feel it
Rockin' the city
Ah, yeah
Straight out of nowhereness
Like a fist
Can't resist you, oh no
I tell you something
You know I love ya
Just wanna touch ya
Stand up
Knock me right off my feet
Hard to beat, hard to beat
Hard to beat
Woo, ah
Let's spend the night
Spend the night together
Heart beatin' so fast
As you take my shirt off
This girl I saw 'round town
Well now she's goin' down
Stuck on a losing streak
I think you've turned it round
Ah, yeah
Girl you've got something I
Like
Read all about it
Have you heard the latest
Boy in a band
Beef Hollywood actress
But baby, you and me
We came up from the street
No time to hesitate
We gotta push our weight
Can you feel it
Rockin' the city
Ah, yeah
Straight out of nowhereness
Like a fist
Can't resist you, oh no
I tell you somethin'
You know I love ya
Just wanna touch ya
Stand up
Knock me right off my feet
Hard to beat, hard to beat
Hard to beat
Goodness
No, I've never known a night like this
Can't believe it
You're so hard to beat
Hard to beat
Drive me crazy
My beautiful baby
Let's spend the whole day
Right here together
You know I love ya
Just wanna touch ya
Stand up
Knock me right off my feet
Hard to beat, hard to beat
Hard to beat
Ah yeah, girl, you've got
Something I like
Ah yeah, girl, you've got
Something I like
Ah yeah, girl, you've got
Something I like
When I'm sitting at home, sitting on the bus
All I ever do is think about us
On and on, I said
Yeah
Ah yeah, girl, you've got
Something I like
Ah yeah, girl, you've got
Something I like
Seen you hangin' round town
You in a short skirt
Shinin' eyes of deep brown
You had a dirty look
You caught me on your hook
Turn up the thermostat
I wanna see you sweat
Ah, yeah
Girl you've got something I
Like
I walked right over, said
Hi, how you doin'
You smiled at me
And girl you tore right through me
I said "Come on, let's dance
We've gotta take our chance"
You whispered in my ear
"You wanna get out of here"
Can you feel it
Rockin' the city
Ah, yeah
Straight out of nowhereness
Like a fist
Can't resist you, oh no
I tell you something
You know I love ya
Just wanna touch ya
Stand up
Knock me right off my feet
Hard to beat, hard to beat
Hard to beat
Woo, ah
Let's spend the night
Spend the night together
Heart beatin' so fast
As you take my shirt off
This girl I saw 'round town
Well now she's goin' down
Stuck on a losing streak
I think you've turned it round
Ah, yeah
Girl you've got something I
Like
Read all about it
Have you heard the latest
Boy in a band
Beef Hollywood actress
But baby, you and me
We came up from the street
No time to hesitate
We gotta push our weight
Can you feel it
Rockin' the city
Ah, yeah
Straight out of nowhereness
Like a fist
Can't resist you, oh no
I tell you somethin'
You know I love ya
Just wanna touch ya
Stand up
Knock me right off my feet
Hard to beat, hard to beat
Hard to beat
Goodness
No, I've never known a night like this
Can't believe it
You're so hard to beat
Hard to beat
Drive me crazy
My beautiful baby
Let's spend the whole day
Right here together
You know I love ya
Just wanna touch ya
Stand up
Knock me right off my feet
Hard to beat, hard to beat
Hard to beat
Ah yeah, girl, you've got
Something I like
Ah yeah, girl, you've got
Something I like
Ah yeah, girl, you've got
Something I like
When I'm sitting at home, sitting on the bus
All I ever do is think about us
On and on, I said
Yeah
Ah yeah, girl, you've got
Something I like
Ah yeah, girl, you've got
Something I like
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Hard to Beat Lyrics as written by Richard Archer
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