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"
Of all the chicks and broads and babes and bimbos I have known
No one does it better than you do on the phone
Midway through my busy day all through my empty night
I dial your 900 number and it feels oh so right
When I'm feelin' lonely and bottled up inside
I know I can always take that magic carpet ride
I get down on my bearskin rug on my loving room floor
I get you on the telephone and you give me what for
When it comes to lovin' on the phone you are the best
Local or long distance, you're better than the rest
And when it is all over, when it's been said and done
Of all the numbers out there, your number's number one
I used to go to pick up bars when I felt all alone
Now I just have a few drinks and pick up my telephone
I like my lovin' private this is not a party line
I don't have call waiting 'cause I'm busy all the time
I don't know what you look like
And I don't know how you smell
But the way you talk to me no human tongue could tell
There are so many digits, yours are the ones I pick
Cause the way you talk to me no human tongue can lick
When it comes to lovin' on the phone you are the best
Local or long distance, you're better than the rest
And when it is all over, when it's been said and done
Of all the numbers out there, your number's number one
The things that you say to me, well I can't sing them here
Let's just say it's worth it, that phone call's not too dear
And I know you don't love me but hey I don't love you
I just love those things you say and what you tell me to do
Cause lovin's never easy and love can be a chore
And these days love is dangerous I need not say more
Some folks say it's kinky and some say it's obscene
But thank you Alexander Graham Bell
For your lovin' machine
No one does it better than you do on the phone
Midway through my busy day all through my empty night
I dial your 900 number and it feels oh so right
When I'm feelin' lonely and bottled up inside
I know I can always take that magic carpet ride
I get down on my bearskin rug on my loving room floor
I get you on the telephone and you give me what for
When it comes to lovin' on the phone you are the best
Local or long distance, you're better than the rest
And when it is all over, when it's been said and done
Of all the numbers out there, your number's number one
I used to go to pick up bars when I felt all alone
Now I just have a few drinks and pick up my telephone
I like my lovin' private this is not a party line
I don't have call waiting 'cause I'm busy all the time
I don't know what you look like
And I don't know how you smell
But the way you talk to me no human tongue could tell
There are so many digits, yours are the ones I pick
Cause the way you talk to me no human tongue can lick
When it comes to lovin' on the phone you are the best
Local or long distance, you're better than the rest
And when it is all over, when it's been said and done
Of all the numbers out there, your number's number one
The things that you say to me, well I can't sing them here
Let's just say it's worth it, that phone call's not too dear
And I know you don't love me but hey I don't love you
I just love those things you say and what you tell me to do
Cause lovin's never easy and love can be a chore
And these days love is dangerous I need not say more
Some folks say it's kinky and some say it's obscene
But thank you Alexander Graham Bell
For your lovin' machine
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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