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 jealous, I'm overzealous
When I'm down, I get real down
When I'm high, I don't come down
I get angry, baby, believe me
I could love you just like that
And I could leave you just this fast
But you don't judge me
'Cause if you did, baby, I would judge you too
No, you don't judge me
'Cause if you did, baby, I would judge you too
'Cause I've got issues
But you've got 'em too
So give 'em all to me
And I'll give mine to you
Bask in the glory
Of all our problems
'Cause we've got the kind of love
It takes to solve them
Yeah, I've got issues
And one of them is how bad I need ya
You do shit on purpose
You get mad and you break things
Feel bad, try to fix things
But you're perfect
Poorly wired circuit
And got hands like an ocean
Push you out, pull you back in
'Cause you don't judge me
'Cause if you did, baby, I would judge you too
No, you don't judge me
'Cause you see it from same point of view
'Cause I've got issues
But you've got 'em too
So give 'em all to me
And I'll give mine to you
Bask in the glory
Of all our problems
'Cause we've got the kind of love
It takes to solve them
Yeah, I've got issues
And one of them is how bad I need ya
(I've got issues, you've got 'em too)
And one of them is how bad I need ya
(I've got issues, you've got 'em too)
'Cause I've got issues (I've got)
But you've got 'em too
So give 'em all to me (you've got 'em too)
And I'll give mine to you
Bask in the glory (I've got issues)
Of all our problems
'Cause we've got the kind of love (you've got 'em too)
It takes to solve them
Yeah, I've got issues (I've got)
And one of them is how bad I need ya (you've got 'em too)
Yeah, I've got issues (I've got issues)
And one of them is how bad I need ya (you've got 'em too)
Yeah, I've got issues (I've got)
And one of them is how bad I need ya
When I'm down, I get real down
When I'm high, I don't come down
I get angry, baby, believe me
I could love you just like that
And I could leave you just this fast
But you don't judge me
'Cause if you did, baby, I would judge you too
No, you don't judge me
'Cause if you did, baby, I would judge you too
'Cause I've got issues
But you've got 'em too
So give 'em all to me
And I'll give mine to you
Bask in the glory
Of all our problems
'Cause we've got the kind of love
It takes to solve them
Yeah, I've got issues
And one of them is how bad I need ya
You do shit on purpose
You get mad and you break things
Feel bad, try to fix things
But you're perfect
Poorly wired circuit
And got hands like an ocean
Push you out, pull you back in
'Cause you don't judge me
'Cause if you did, baby, I would judge you too
No, you don't judge me
'Cause you see it from same point of view
'Cause I've got issues
But you've got 'em too
So give 'em all to me
And I'll give mine to you
Bask in the glory
Of all our problems
'Cause we've got the kind of love
It takes to solve them
Yeah, I've got issues
And one of them is how bad I need ya
(I've got issues, you've got 'em too)
And one of them is how bad I need ya
(I've got issues, you've got 'em too)
'Cause I've got issues (I've got)
But you've got 'em too
So give 'em all to me (you've got 'em too)
And I'll give mine to you
Bask in the glory (I've got issues)
Of all our problems
'Cause we've got the kind of love (you've got 'em too)
It takes to solve them
Yeah, I've got issues (I've got)
And one of them is how bad I need ya (you've got 'em too)
Yeah, I've got issues (I've got issues)
And one of them is how bad I need ya (you've got 'em too)
Yeah, I've got issues (I've got)
And one of them is how bad I need ya
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@Mellow_Harsher what does poorly wired circuit mean?
@sophia2065 To me it sounds like that line "But you're perfect, poorly wired circuit" means that though the other person is not technically perfect (he's not "wired" correctly) he's still perfect to her regardless. Kind of sums up the whole song really.
@Mellow_Harsher oh .... okay.. thank you