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"
You never deliver
In the times when I need you
If you're tired from the day
I don't blame you
But I still need you to follow through
Late at night
You and I never work out quite right
You never want me to do anything
And when I'm in the mood I think you're pretty rude
When I'm full of energy you don't see me
I'm trying to be serious and you're just laughing
Late at night
You and I never work out quite right
I'm getting better at listening
But I don't know where you go late at night
And when I've moved along
You suddenly can't seem to get enough
Of what we had
Late at night
You and I never work out quite right
In the times when I need you
If you're tired from the day
I don't blame you
But I still need you to follow through
Late at night
You and I never work out quite right
You never want me to do anything
And when I'm in the mood I think you're pretty rude
When I'm full of energy you don't see me
I'm trying to be serious and you're just laughing
Late at night
You and I never work out quite right
I'm getting better at listening
But I don't know where you go late at night
And when I've moved along
You suddenly can't seem to get enough
Of what we had
Late at night
You and I never work out quite right
Lyrics submitted by pizzanomics
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This sounds like a relationship that is going poorly. For anyone who has had a long term relationship go south, you know the feeling of the narrator in this song.
"You never deliver" "I still need you to follow through"
You can literally see someone fighting with their significant other asking them to be more available or try to find some sort of common ground. I think the next set of lyrics adds more background to the problems that's happening in the relationship
You never want me to do anything And when I'm in the mood I think you're pretty rude When I'm full of energy you don't see me I'm trying to be serious and you're just laughing
I can see the couple fighting again. This could be a simple interpretation of a person who wants to leave the house and go do things while their partner might be a couch potato and not wanting to do anything.
There can also be some really deep meanings here. You can interpret this as the narrator wanting to do something that's more like a life goal and being ridiculed for it. You can somewhat reflect it on a sexless relationship if you put together the entire song that makes more sense. The basic meaning is that you can add whatever individual situation to it, but you have someone who wants something they aren't getting.
The last verse is saying simply that when they leave the relationship then that person is willing to give 150% to be back in the relationship.
I still feel like there's a sexual connotation to it disguised in a well crafted song that has a positive tempo to it. "Late at night you and I never work out quite right" kind of points me towards that.
I think you can reflect on the line "I don't know where you go late at night." as a way of saying the person shut down or they physically are leaving. The line prior about listening kind of makes me think its the person is shutting down in the conversations.
Anyway, I think its a great song that can be purely about the relationship or about their sexual life. Its fun to play too.