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, I smell it on your blouse – you’ve been seeing someone else, so
Go fuck yourself
Fix the lipstick on your mouth before you come into my house, and
Go fuck yourself
If it helps to see it clearer – yeah you can use a mirror
To fuck yourself
Yeah, I smell it on your blouse – you’ve been seeing someone else, so
Go fuck yourself
You should try to be a bit more secretive
This isn’t how two people live
You take and take, I try to give
You’re always on that negative
Well I don’t see no positive – we live in that zero
Next time you leave the house, just keep your cell phone near you
I don’t wanna talk about it
I don’t need to take this
I’m a free spirit and you know that I’m spontaneous
Why you always tie me down
You must be delirious
You think I’m fucking all your friends?
Nat – you can’t be serious!
I can taste it on your tongue – you’ve been sleeping with someone, so
Go fuck yourself
You go out behind my back like I don’t know where you’re at, so
Go fuck yourself
I bet you gave a hummer in the backseat of his Hummer, so
Go fuck yourself
I can taste it on your tongue – you’ve been sleeping with someone, so
Go fuck yourself
Yeah I only trust your friends just as far as I can throw ‘em
Actually, fuck your friends, I don’t even know ‘em
When grown men are texting you, saying that you owe them
Can you really put the blame on me when I follow where you go, then?
I won’t wanna talk about it
Why you think I’m shady?
I go out on the town ‘cause I’m a high-class lady
Why you try to lock me in?
You know you’re not my husband
This house is like a prison, Sean you must be buggin’.
Girl, did you go out?
Or did you stay in?
Texting with my best friend – plotting how to fuck him
Laughin’ with your girls like I don’t know nothing
Never knew that she could ever be so cold
Watch me as I fall apart – domino
Did I suspect?
Did I think that you would cheat?
Is the Pope Catholic?
Do wolves kill sheep?
Are there stars in the sky?
Is there water in the sea?
[Yeah, I think it’s safe to say I thought that you would cheat.]
Well guess what – Little Birdy gonna fly free
And guess what – Little Birdy won’t phase me
And when the truth comes out Little Birdy’s mouth – Little Birdy better pack her shit and fly South.
Go fuck yourself.
Go fuck yourself
Fix the lipstick on your mouth before you come into my house, and
Go fuck yourself
If it helps to see it clearer – yeah you can use a mirror
To fuck yourself
Yeah, I smell it on your blouse – you’ve been seeing someone else, so
Go fuck yourself
You should try to be a bit more secretive
This isn’t how two people live
You take and take, I try to give
You’re always on that negative
Well I don’t see no positive – we live in that zero
Next time you leave the house, just keep your cell phone near you
I don’t wanna talk about it
I don’t need to take this
I’m a free spirit and you know that I’m spontaneous
Why you always tie me down
You must be delirious
You think I’m fucking all your friends?
Nat – you can’t be serious!
I can taste it on your tongue – you’ve been sleeping with someone, so
Go fuck yourself
You go out behind my back like I don’t know where you’re at, so
Go fuck yourself
I bet you gave a hummer in the backseat of his Hummer, so
Go fuck yourself
I can taste it on your tongue – you’ve been sleeping with someone, so
Go fuck yourself
Yeah I only trust your friends just as far as I can throw ‘em
Actually, fuck your friends, I don’t even know ‘em
When grown men are texting you, saying that you owe them
Can you really put the blame on me when I follow where you go, then?
I won’t wanna talk about it
Why you think I’m shady?
I go out on the town ‘cause I’m a high-class lady
Why you try to lock me in?
You know you’re not my husband
This house is like a prison, Sean you must be buggin’.
Girl, did you go out?
Or did you stay in?
Texting with my best friend – plotting how to fuck him
Laughin’ with your girls like I don’t know nothing
Never knew that she could ever be so cold
Watch me as I fall apart – domino
Did I suspect?
Did I think that you would cheat?
Is the Pope Catholic?
Do wolves kill sheep?
Are there stars in the sky?
Is there water in the sea?
[Yeah, I think it’s safe to say I thought that you would cheat.]
Well guess what – Little Birdy gonna fly free
And guess what – Little Birdy won’t phase me
And when the truth comes out Little Birdy’s mouth – Little Birdy better pack her shit and fly South.
Go fuck yourself.
Lyrics submitted by thebluthcompany
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