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"
Leave yea, leave yea
It's time to leave yea
It's time to leave yea
It's time to leave yea, yea, leave, leave me
Every time I do right, you make it wrong
You're so annoying baby, I got over you years ago
Why you fess up to me, and start some shit
I got 1 thing for you, you try to fuck things up on me
I try to treat you right, and give you love
I gave you the things you never had before, all along, you were using me, using me
Abusing me makes me realize
You got to leave me alone, you got to leave me alone
It's time to do my own thang, yea
You got to leave me alone, you got to leave me along
It's time to do my own thang, yea
You gotta, gotta, gotta, leave me alone
Leave me alone, leave me alone
Leave yea, leave yea, it's time to leave yea
Leave, leave yea
Here I am trying to help you
I gave you the stories and gave you all the love, all alone, you were using me
Abusing me would come before, I thought I could change you
But I made it worse, giving you gifts, giving you things that you really love
Now I admit, I had enough, it's time for me to make a change
I try to be with you, I try to stay with you
All you wanna do is give me lip don't even faze me
I got so many chicks who want to be with me
I got so many chicks who kill for me
So you wanna act like this, and try to strip up my flavor
I got so many chicks who wants to be with me, wants to be with me do you feel me baby, baby
You try to flex on me, you try to diss on me
You try to do a lot of things that would really hurt me, uh
You try to steal from me, you try to rob, you try to eat me, you even try to break me uh
What's up hun, what's the deal hun, you try to rip me, you try to strip me
I got over you years ago, move on, move, cause I already have
You got to leave me alone, you got to leave me alone, it's time to do my own thang, yea
You got to leave me alone, you got to leave me along, it's time to do my own thang, yea
You got to leave me alone, you got to leave me alone, it's time to do my own thang, yea
You got to leave me alone, you got to leave me along, it's time to do my own thang, yea
It's time to leave yea
It's time to leave yea
It's time to leave yea, yea, leave, leave me
Every time I do right, you make it wrong
You're so annoying baby, I got over you years ago
Why you fess up to me, and start some shit
I got 1 thing for you, you try to fuck things up on me
I try to treat you right, and give you love
I gave you the things you never had before, all along, you were using me, using me
Abusing me makes me realize
You got to leave me alone, you got to leave me alone
It's time to do my own thang, yea
You got to leave me alone, you got to leave me along
It's time to do my own thang, yea
You gotta, gotta, gotta, leave me alone
Leave me alone, leave me alone
Leave yea, leave yea, it's time to leave yea
Leave, leave yea
Here I am trying to help you
I gave you the stories and gave you all the love, all alone, you were using me
Abusing me would come before, I thought I could change you
But I made it worse, giving you gifts, giving you things that you really love
Now I admit, I had enough, it's time for me to make a change
I try to be with you, I try to stay with you
All you wanna do is give me lip don't even faze me
I got so many chicks who want to be with me
I got so many chicks who kill for me
So you wanna act like this, and try to strip up my flavor
I got so many chicks who wants to be with me, wants to be with me do you feel me baby, baby
You try to flex on me, you try to diss on me
You try to do a lot of things that would really hurt me, uh
You try to steal from me, you try to rob, you try to eat me, you even try to break me uh
What's up hun, what's the deal hun, you try to rip me, you try to strip me
I got over you years ago, move on, move, cause I already have
You got to leave me alone, you got to leave me alone, it's time to do my own thang, yea
You got to leave me alone, you got to leave me along, it's time to do my own thang, yea
You got to leave me alone, you got to leave me alone, it's time to do my own thang, yea
You got to leave me alone, you got to leave me along, it's time to do my own thang, yea
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