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"
Ooh
(Smoking on somethin', talk about somethin')
Sha-ba-da-ba-dwee, dwee-dwee
(Said, I'm smokin' on somethin', talk about somethin') you, you
Baby, you
Could lift me out the struggle that I fell into
With all the crazy things that you put me through
I just need a way to keep pushin', gotta keep pushin'
And I'll take you on
If you give me the time
And then all at once
Don't wanna say goodbye (goodbye)
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
And I'll take you on (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
If you give me the time
And then all at once (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Don't wanna say goodbye (goodbye)
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye (goodbye)
Drug dealer
Somebody that gon' heal her
Make her change her ways
Like nobody would believe her
She want a drug dealer
Somebody that gon' heal her
Make her change her ways
Like nobody would believe her
I need you by my side every day, every night
If your love is true then just prove that it's right
No matter what you do, I need you in my life
Baby, let's do it right, baby, let's do it right (oh)
And I'll take you on
If you give me the time
And then all at once
Don't wanna say goodbye (goodbye)
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
And I'll take you on (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
If you give me the time
And then all at once (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Don't wanna say goodbye (goodbye)
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye (goodbye)
Open up your heart and I'll give in to you
Until you recognize that I'm into you, into you
You say that you love it when I try to make you stay
All that I've been savin' for you when I'm back again
But maybe I'm foldin' under pressure, baby
Just tell me I should and I won't go anywhere, ooh, ooh
Who's gonna find out?
Ooh, just tonight, ooh, just tonight, oh
If we run away
Ooh
And I'll take you on (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
If you give me the time
And then all at once (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Don't wanna say goodbye (goodbye)
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye (goodbye)
And I'll take you on (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
And then all at once (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Goodbye)
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Open up your heart and I'll give in to you
Until you recognize that I'm into you, into you
And open up your heart and I'll give in to you
Until you recognize that I'm into you, into you
Baby, you
Could lift me out the struggle that I fell into
With all the crazy things that you put me through
I just need a way to keep pushin'
(Gotta keep pushin')
And I'll take you on
And then all at once
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
And I'll take you on
If you give me the time
Then all at once
Don't wanna say goodbye (goodbye)
Goodbye (goodbye)
Goodbye (goodbye)
Goodbye
(Smoking on somethin', talk about somethin')
Sha-ba-da-ba-dwee, dwee-dwee
(Said, I'm smokin' on somethin', talk about somethin') you, you
Baby, you
Could lift me out the struggle that I fell into
With all the crazy things that you put me through
I just need a way to keep pushin', gotta keep pushin'
And I'll take you on
If you give me the time
And then all at once
Don't wanna say goodbye (goodbye)
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
And I'll take you on (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
If you give me the time
And then all at once (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Don't wanna say goodbye (goodbye)
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye (goodbye)
Drug dealer
Somebody that gon' heal her
Make her change her ways
Like nobody would believe her
She want a drug dealer
Somebody that gon' heal her
Make her change her ways
Like nobody would believe her
I need you by my side every day, every night
If your love is true then just prove that it's right
No matter what you do, I need you in my life
Baby, let's do it right, baby, let's do it right (oh)
And I'll take you on
If you give me the time
And then all at once
Don't wanna say goodbye (goodbye)
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
And I'll take you on (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
If you give me the time
And then all at once (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Don't wanna say goodbye (goodbye)
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye (goodbye)
Open up your heart and I'll give in to you
Until you recognize that I'm into you, into you
You say that you love it when I try to make you stay
All that I've been savin' for you when I'm back again
But maybe I'm foldin' under pressure, baby
Just tell me I should and I won't go anywhere, ooh, ooh
Who's gonna find out?
Ooh, just tonight, ooh, just tonight, oh
If we run away
Ooh
And I'll take you on (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
If you give me the time
And then all at once (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Don't wanna say goodbye (goodbye)
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye (goodbye)
And I'll take you on (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
And then all at once (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Goodbye)
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Open up your heart and I'll give in to you
Until you recognize that I'm into you, into you
And open up your heart and I'll give in to you
Until you recognize that I'm into you, into you
Baby, you
Could lift me out the struggle that I fell into
With all the crazy things that you put me through
I just need a way to keep pushin'
(Gotta keep pushin')
And I'll take you on
And then all at once
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
And I'll take you on
If you give me the time
Then all at once
Don't wanna say goodbye (goodbye)
Goodbye (goodbye)
Goodbye (goodbye)
Goodbye
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
I'LL TAKE YOU ON Lyrics as written by Charlie Wilson Baird Robert Wittner Acheson
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