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"
There was a time, I don't know when
I didn't have much time for men
But this is now and that was then
I'm learning
A girl alone all on her own
Must try to have a heart of stone
So I try not to make it known my yearning
I try to show I have no need
I really do, I don't succeed
So let's bring on the men
And and the fun begin
A little touch of sin
Why wait another minute?
Step this way
It's time for us to play
They say we may not pass this way again
So let's waste no more time
Bring on the men
I always knew, I always said
A silk and lace in black and red
will drive a man right off his head
It's easy
So many men, so little time
I want them all, is that a crime?
I don't know why they say that I'm too easy
They make me laugh
They make me cry
They make me sick
So God knows why
We say bring on the men
And let the fun begin
A little touch of sin
Why wait another minute?
Step this way
It's time for us to play
They say we may not pass this way again
So let's waste no more time
Bring on the men
They break your heat
They steal your soul
Tear you apart
And yet they somehow make you whole
So what's their game?
I suppose a rose by any other name
The perfume and the pricks the same
I like to have a man for breakfast each day
I'm very social and I like it that way
By late mid-morning I need something to much
So I have over two men for lunch
And men are mad about my afternoon 'tease'
It's quite informal I just do to please
Those triple sandwiches are my favourite ones
I'm also very partial to buns
My hearty appetite gets strongest at night
My at-home diners are my men friend's delight
When I invite the fellas' over to dine
They all come early
In bed by nine
So let's bring on the men
And let the fun begin
A little touch of sin
Why wait another minute?
Step this way
It's time for us to play
They say we may not pass this way again
So let's waste no more time
Bring on the men
(Big men, small men
Short men, tall men
I guess that means almost all men
I don't care as long as they are
Men, men, men!)
I didn't have much time for men
But this is now and that was then
I'm learning
A girl alone all on her own
Must try to have a heart of stone
So I try not to make it known my yearning
I try to show I have no need
I really do, I don't succeed
So let's bring on the men
And and the fun begin
A little touch of sin
Why wait another minute?
Step this way
It's time for us to play
They say we may not pass this way again
So let's waste no more time
Bring on the men
I always knew, I always said
A silk and lace in black and red
will drive a man right off his head
It's easy
So many men, so little time
I want them all, is that a crime?
I don't know why they say that I'm too easy
They make me laugh
They make me cry
They make me sick
So God knows why
We say bring on the men
And let the fun begin
A little touch of sin
Why wait another minute?
Step this way
It's time for us to play
They say we may not pass this way again
So let's waste no more time
Bring on the men
They break your heat
They steal your soul
Tear you apart
And yet they somehow make you whole
So what's their game?
I suppose a rose by any other name
The perfume and the pricks the same
I like to have a man for breakfast each day
I'm very social and I like it that way
By late mid-morning I need something to much
So I have over two men for lunch
And men are mad about my afternoon 'tease'
It's quite informal I just do to please
Those triple sandwiches are my favourite ones
I'm also very partial to buns
My hearty appetite gets strongest at night
My at-home diners are my men friend's delight
When I invite the fellas' over to dine
They all come early
In bed by nine
So let's bring on the men
And let the fun begin
A little touch of sin
Why wait another minute?
Step this way
It's time for us to play
They say we may not pass this way again
So let's waste no more time
Bring on the men
(Big men, small men
Short men, tall men
I guess that means almost all men
I don't care as long as they are
Men, men, men!)
Lyrics submitted by BlindGirl
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