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"
Sweet thing, you moved to Southern California
Sweet thing, you do just what your parents told you
Sweet thing, your're watching Parks and Rec alone
Sweet thing, you sweet thing
Sweet thing, you'll end up being someone better
Sweet thing, but I can only be myself
Sweet thing, you'll still believe in fairy tales
Sweet thing, you sweet thing
You take me to the fair
But I don't really care
You wouldn't change a hair
Sometimes I wonder why you love me
But you love me
I always make you cry
No matter how I try
Sometimes I wonder why
Why would you ever want to love me?
Must you love me? Oh
Sweet thing, you made me chicken, rice and beans
Sweet thing, you're just as sweet as you can be
Sweet thing, if you wanna be happy, don't look at my phone
Sweet thing, my sweet thing
Sweet thing, you friend is always acting strank
Sweet thing, you wanna hold me but you can't
Sweet thing, you always eating off my food
Sweet thing, my sweet thing
Ain't got no pictures on my feed
Gucci jacket smell like weed, ooh
Rubbing my head while we're both sleeping
Feel like I'm cheating on myself
But it feels so good
I wanna tell you something
Something I've never said before
I just wanna say
Thank you (oh, yeah)
'Cause I love you
I wanna say thank you
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 'cause I love you
Ooh, yeah
I said thank you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Thank you
I said thank you
Thank you for showing me
What love can be (I love you)
Thank you
Your love is a mountain, I admire
I admire
Oh, I wanna say thank you
I love you
And I love you, yes I do
I said thank you
Thank you for children
Thank you for love
I just wanna thank you
I just wanna say it, I just wanna say it
I cannot find, I cannot find
Losin' my mind, losin' my mind
Oh no
Sweet thing, you do just what your parents told you
Sweet thing, your're watching Parks and Rec alone
Sweet thing, you sweet thing
Sweet thing, you'll end up being someone better
Sweet thing, but I can only be myself
Sweet thing, you'll still believe in fairy tales
Sweet thing, you sweet thing
You take me to the fair
But I don't really care
You wouldn't change a hair
Sometimes I wonder why you love me
But you love me
I always make you cry
No matter how I try
Sometimes I wonder why
Why would you ever want to love me?
Must you love me? Oh
Sweet thing, you made me chicken, rice and beans
Sweet thing, you're just as sweet as you can be
Sweet thing, if you wanna be happy, don't look at my phone
Sweet thing, my sweet thing
Sweet thing, you friend is always acting strank
Sweet thing, you wanna hold me but you can't
Sweet thing, you always eating off my food
Sweet thing, my sweet thing
Ain't got no pictures on my feed
Gucci jacket smell like weed, ooh
Rubbing my head while we're both sleeping
Feel like I'm cheating on myself
But it feels so good
I wanna tell you something
Something I've never said before
I just wanna say
Thank you (oh, yeah)
'Cause I love you
I wanna say thank you
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 'cause I love you
Ooh, yeah
I said thank you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Thank you
I said thank you
Thank you for showing me
What love can be (I love you)
Thank you
Your love is a mountain, I admire
I admire
Oh, I wanna say thank you
I love you
And I love you, yes I do
I said thank you
Thank you for children
Thank you for love
I just wanna thank you
I just wanna say it, I just wanna say it
I cannot find, I cannot find
Losin' my mind, losin' my mind
Oh no
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
24.19 Lyrics as written by Dacoury Natche Carlos Los Hendrix Munoz
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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