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're all over me
Step back over my spit
You're all over me
On the count of the place where I sit
You're all over me
Respect me or then this is it
You're all over me
Step back, step back
If you love me anymore
You would run me out
If you love me every thought
I would never doubt
If you love me anymore
You would run me out
If you love me every thought
I would never doubt
Little stream of consciousness
Better get ready
Better get ready
I'm a soldier
Already gone
I'm a soldier
Took this too far
I'm a soldier
If you love me anymore
You would run me out
If you love me every thought
I would never doubt
If you love me anymore
You would run me out
If you love me every thought
I would never doubt, yeah
Accept me everywhere
Everywhere I go
Accept me anywhere
And I will never show
Present me every dance
I hope we'll never suppose
For in me common sense
Keep us on our toes
If you love me anymore
You would run me out
If you love me every thought
I would never doubt
If you love me anymore
You would run me out
If you love me every thought
I would never doubt
World turn out
I am who I am
You, I, care
We, I am, you care
Yeah
Let's roll down with the brothers in the house
Big chill all the way to Streatham
All the way to Streatham, my friend
That's the way we roll out
Yeah, West London massive
Look at what you're viewing now
Genie, would you give me your real name?
Place on locked, not of the gangway
Limitations always
They should get laid out, played out, you know
Set to gauge range, straight to you friend
Stretched out, gamers, played out, over-run
Stretching out a lot of nothing
Got time for nothing
Gotta make something for-for-for-for-for
Something, something, something, some
Step back over my spit
You're all over me
On the count of the place where I sit
You're all over me
Respect me or then this is it
You're all over me
Step back, step back
If you love me anymore
You would run me out
If you love me every thought
I would never doubt
If you love me anymore
You would run me out
If you love me every thought
I would never doubt
Little stream of consciousness
Better get ready
Better get ready
I'm a soldier
Already gone
I'm a soldier
Took this too far
I'm a soldier
If you love me anymore
You would run me out
If you love me every thought
I would never doubt
If you love me anymore
You would run me out
If you love me every thought
I would never doubt, yeah
Accept me everywhere
Everywhere I go
Accept me anywhere
And I will never show
Present me every dance
I hope we'll never suppose
For in me common sense
Keep us on our toes
If you love me anymore
You would run me out
If you love me every thought
I would never doubt
If you love me anymore
You would run me out
If you love me every thought
I would never doubt
World turn out
I am who I am
You, I, care
We, I am, you care
Yeah
Let's roll down with the brothers in the house
Big chill all the way to Streatham
All the way to Streatham, my friend
That's the way we roll out
Yeah, West London massive
Look at what you're viewing now
Genie, would you give me your real name?
Place on locked, not of the gangway
Limitations always
They should get laid out, played out, you know
Set to gauge range, straight to you friend
Stretched out, gamers, played out, over-run
Stretching out a lot of nothing
Got time for nothing
Gotta make something for-for-for-for-for
Something, something, something, some
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Slow Release Lyrics as written by Neneh Karlsson
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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