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"
When lights are low
High anticipation waiting for the show
Feel my heart is racing, losing all control
Got me so impatient for you
Yeah, yeah
'Cause in my mind
I see you touching me in ways undefined
I don't want to stop it
I gotta press rewind
So baby tell me what we gonna do
Gonna do
Oh,
Don't you dance with all the lights
Let's make this last all night, yeah
Oh,
Let's do it till the sky turns bright
Let's make this last all night
When you look into my eyes
The world stops and sparks fly
There's nothing sweeter than this paradise
Sing, oh
Baby set my love on fire
We can make this last all night
We can make this last all night
We can make this last all night (Baby, baby, baby)
We can make this last all night (Baby, baby, baby)
Hmm, feel this energy
Building up inside it's like a sweet release
You play with this emotion, oh, so cleverly
You got me so addicted to you
To you!
'Cause in my head
I know the night doesn't really have to end
I'm ready steady go
I am so prepared for whatever you say boy I do
I do
Oh,
Don't you dance with all the lights
Let's make this last all night, yeah
Oh,
Let's do it till the sky turns bright
Let's make this last all night
When you look into my eyes
The world stops and sparks fly
There's nothing sweeter than this paradise
Sing, oh
Baby set my love on fire
We can make this last all night
We can make this last all night
We can make this last all night (We can make it, we can make it)
We can make this last all night (We can make it, we can make it)
We can make this last all night
High anticipation waiting for the show
Feel my heart is racing, losing all control
Got me so impatient for you
Yeah, yeah
'Cause in my mind
I see you touching me in ways undefined
I don't want to stop it
I gotta press rewind
So baby tell me what we gonna do
Gonna do
Oh,
Don't you dance with all the lights
Let's make this last all night, yeah
Oh,
Let's do it till the sky turns bright
Let's make this last all night
When you look into my eyes
The world stops and sparks fly
There's nothing sweeter than this paradise
Sing, oh
Baby set my love on fire
We can make this last all night
We can make this last all night
We can make this last all night (Baby, baby, baby)
We can make this last all night (Baby, baby, baby)
Hmm, feel this energy
Building up inside it's like a sweet release
You play with this emotion, oh, so cleverly
You got me so addicted to you
To you!
'Cause in my head
I know the night doesn't really have to end
I'm ready steady go
I am so prepared for whatever you say boy I do
I do
Oh,
Don't you dance with all the lights
Let's make this last all night, yeah
Oh,
Let's do it till the sky turns bright
Let's make this last all night
When you look into my eyes
The world stops and sparks fly
There's nothing sweeter than this paradise
Sing, oh
Baby set my love on fire
We can make this last all night
We can make this last all night
We can make this last all night (We can make it, we can make it)
We can make this last all night (We can make it, we can make it)
We can make this last all night
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