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"
I'm turning you up
I'm turning you on
Yeah your head's saying danger, danger
but your heart must be drunk
And I know you don't settle
and I know you're not weak
But I think you can't help it, help it
when it comes to me ooh
I really got a hold on you, you're begging me for more
You never seen nobody do the things I do before singing
Hey hey hallelujah, hey hey hallelujah
Yeah I drive you crazy and your heart's about to break
You're begging me for mercy, don't know how much you can take, singing
Hey hey hallelujah, hey hey hallelujah
Tonight I'm so cold
not calling you back
But tomorrow we'll cuddle, cuddle
my legs in your lap (you know it)
And your friends tried to warn you
Said she'll tear you apart
she's nothing but trouble, trouble
She's playing you hard
I really got a hold on you, you're begging me for more
You never seen nobody do the things I do before singing
Hey hey hallelujah, hey hey hallelujah
Yeah I drive you crazy and your heart's about to break
You're begging me for mercy, don't know how much you can take, singing
Hey hey hallelujah, hey hey hallelujah
I don't know what you do to me
Baby don't worry, I'm sugar and sweet
I don't know what you do to me
Baby don't worry, I'm good as can be
I don't know what you do to me
Baby don't worry, I'm sugar and sweet
I don't know what you do to me
Baby don't worry, I'm good as can be
I'm singing hallelujah when you touch me
Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley
Coming home to all my clothes out on the street yeah
Five minutes later asking me where we eating
Makin' me feel good when you put me on my knees
And love me like you should
you make me wanna scream Hallelujah, can't win
I don't wanna lose you, all in
I really got a hold on you, you're begging me for more
You never seen nobody do the things I do before singing
Hey hey hallelujah, hey hey hallelujah (hey hallelujah)
Yeah I drive you crazy and your heart's about to break
You're begging me for mercy, don't know how much you can take, singing
Hey hey hallelujah, hey hey hallelujah
I really got a hold on you, you're begging me for more
You never seen nobody do the things I do before singing
Hey hey hallelujah, hey hey hallelujah (hey)
Yeah I drive you crazy and your heart's about to break
You're begging me for mercy, don't know how much you can take, singing
Hey hey hallelujah, hey hey hallelujah, ujah
I'm turning you on
Yeah your head's saying danger, danger
but your heart must be drunk
And I know you don't settle
and I know you're not weak
But I think you can't help it, help it
when it comes to me ooh
I really got a hold on you, you're begging me for more
You never seen nobody do the things I do before singing
Hey hey hallelujah, hey hey hallelujah
Yeah I drive you crazy and your heart's about to break
You're begging me for mercy, don't know how much you can take, singing
Hey hey hallelujah, hey hey hallelujah
Tonight I'm so cold
not calling you back
But tomorrow we'll cuddle, cuddle
my legs in your lap (you know it)
And your friends tried to warn you
Said she'll tear you apart
she's nothing but trouble, trouble
She's playing you hard
I really got a hold on you, you're begging me for more
You never seen nobody do the things I do before singing
Hey hey hallelujah, hey hey hallelujah
Yeah I drive you crazy and your heart's about to break
You're begging me for mercy, don't know how much you can take, singing
Hey hey hallelujah, hey hey hallelujah
I don't know what you do to me
Baby don't worry, I'm sugar and sweet
I don't know what you do to me
Baby don't worry, I'm good as can be
I don't know what you do to me
Baby don't worry, I'm sugar and sweet
I don't know what you do to me
Baby don't worry, I'm good as can be
I'm singing hallelujah when you touch me
Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley
Coming home to all my clothes out on the street yeah
Five minutes later asking me where we eating
Makin' me feel good when you put me on my knees
And love me like you should
you make me wanna scream Hallelujah, can't win
I don't wanna lose you, all in
I really got a hold on you, you're begging me for more
You never seen nobody do the things I do before singing
Hey hey hallelujah, hey hey hallelujah (hey hallelujah)
Yeah I drive you crazy and your heart's about to break
You're begging me for mercy, don't know how much you can take, singing
Hey hey hallelujah, hey hey hallelujah
I really got a hold on you, you're begging me for more
You never seen nobody do the things I do before singing
Hey hey hallelujah, hey hey hallelujah (hey)
Yeah I drive you crazy and your heart's about to break
You're begging me for mercy, don't know how much you can take, singing
Hey hey hallelujah, hey hey hallelujah, ujah
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