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"
Yeah, with a boy like that it's serious
There's a boy who is so wonderful
That girls who see him cannot find back home
And the gigolos run like spiders when he comes
'Cause he is Eros and he's Apollo
Girls, with a boy like that it's serious
Senoritas, don't follow him
Soon, he will eat your hearts like cereals
Sweet Lolitas, don't go
You're still young
But every night they fall like dominoes
How he does it, only heaven knows
All the other men turn gay wherever he goes
Wow!
Girls, with a boy like that it's serious
Senoritas, don't follow him
Soon, he will eat your hearts like cereals
Sweet Lolitas, don't go
You're still young
Yeah, with a boy like that it's serious
Senoritas, don't go
Please don't go
Soon, he will eat your hearts like cereals
Sweet Lolitas, don't go
You're still young
Sweet Lolitas, don't go
You're still young
Still young, still young, still young
Still young, still young, still young
Still young
There's a boy who is so wonderful
That girls who see him cannot find back home
And the gigolos run like spiders when he comes
'Cause he is Eros and he's Apollo
Girls, with a boy like that it's serious
Senoritas, don't follow him
Soon, he will eat your hearts like cereals
Sweet Lolitas, don't go
You're still young
But every night they fall like dominoes
How he does it, only heaven knows
All the other men turn gay wherever he goes
Wow!
Girls, with a boy like that it's serious
Senoritas, don't follow him
Soon, he will eat your hearts like cereals
Sweet Lolitas, don't go
You're still young
Yeah, with a boy like that it's serious
Senoritas, don't go
Please don't go
Soon, he will eat your hearts like cereals
Sweet Lolitas, don't go
You're still young
Sweet Lolitas, don't go
You're still young
Still young, still young, still young
Still young, still young, still young
Still young
Lyrics submitted by priestparadox, edited by Bambina, Fayiirah, Rai04
Eros and Apollo Lyrics as written by Darren Stokes Chubby Cherry
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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From what I gather since 'the gigalos run like spiders' and 'Girls, with a boy like that it's serious Senoritas, don't follow him Soon, he will eat your hearts like cereals Sweet Lolitas, don't go You're still young '
Means this boy knows how to pull your heart strings, he's been in the game and is constantly looking for romance, love, and sex, and probably partying. He's not necessarily with one partner, probably not looking for any one partner. Leading on men and women alike. If you're still young you won't realize what he's doing because he seems so genuinely interested and infatuated but with time will notice he treats all this way. Always looking for love, fun and sexual activity. That's my interpretation anyways.
Hot dang, I love this song...
But are the lyrics correct? Unless there's some missing syllables in the delivery, it doesn't seem like they'd be able to stick "kinda follow him" in there. I can't hear it, anyway. Could someone double check?
Not that I'm any better. I hear "cut off him back home." ;P