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"
If tomorrow the world ends
And in the morning the sun don't seem to shine
I will stay here forever
Standing right by your side
You know they say (they say) that its all gonna end some day
So, right before it does (right before it does)
Let's make love (let's make love)
Like tomorrow was 2012
The last day on Earth, 2012
The end of the world, 2012
You'll be my man and I'll be your girl
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
Now they be telling me that these are the last days
Are we really that close to Armageddon
If living on the planet 'till this point has been hell
I survived 'cause I am legend
What if it's all about to be over
Then I'm gonna say you need to be my girlfriend
Hit the blunt after the world in the dim
Then you can get it in like the world fixin' to end
It's predicted by the ancient Mayan civilization
I don't want to see the world go soon
But with such a beautiful girl in the room
I want to be up in you when the world go boom
Get down with your body 'till it's lights out
Making love 'till the terminator come
Global warming is having a major effect
Comfort each other but we don't know which way to run
Mother Earth is about to go to another cycle
And I know that is about to end someday (someday)
Right before it does (right before it does)
Let's make love (let's make love)
Like tomorrow was 2012
The end of the world, 2012
The last day on Earth, 2012
You'll be my man and I'll be your girl
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
Tomorrow it's all about to be over
So I only live to serve ya
The dark is about to devour the Earth
So come and ride with the Silver Surfer
Now will it all in from the element
Of ether or artificial intelligence
As long as we both have the passion
The sex it just makes all the issues irrelevant
I know it's all about to go
So I just sit back and blow my dro'
(Right before it does)
Steady looking at the clock,
Before we suffer let me make your body rock
Having sex 'till the big bomb drops
Or 'till the planet go pop
2012, the last day on Earth
2012, the end of the world
2012, you'll be my man and I'll be your girl
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
And in the morning the sun don't seem to shine
I will stay here forever
Standing right by your side
You know they say (they say) that its all gonna end some day
So, right before it does (right before it does)
Let's make love (let's make love)
Like tomorrow was 2012
The last day on Earth, 2012
The end of the world, 2012
You'll be my man and I'll be your girl
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
Now they be telling me that these are the last days
Are we really that close to Armageddon
If living on the planet 'till this point has been hell
I survived 'cause I am legend
What if it's all about to be over
Then I'm gonna say you need to be my girlfriend
Hit the blunt after the world in the dim
Then you can get it in like the world fixin' to end
It's predicted by the ancient Mayan civilization
I don't want to see the world go soon
But with such a beautiful girl in the room
I want to be up in you when the world go boom
Get down with your body 'till it's lights out
Making love 'till the terminator come
Global warming is having a major effect
Comfort each other but we don't know which way to run
Mother Earth is about to go to another cycle
And I know that is about to end someday (someday)
Right before it does (right before it does)
Let's make love (let's make love)
Like tomorrow was 2012
The end of the world, 2012
The last day on Earth, 2012
You'll be my man and I'll be your girl
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
Tomorrow it's all about to be over
So I only live to serve ya
The dark is about to devour the Earth
So come and ride with the Silver Surfer
Now will it all in from the element
Of ether or artificial intelligence
As long as we both have the passion
The sex it just makes all the issues irrelevant
I know it's all about to go
So I just sit back and blow my dro'
(Right before it does)
Steady looking at the clock,
Before we suffer let me make your body rock
Having sex 'till the big bomb drops
Or 'till the planet go pop
2012, the last day on Earth
2012, the end of the world
2012, you'll be my man and I'll be your girl
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
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2012 Lyrics as written by Samuel C. Lindley Carl Terrell Mitchell
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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