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"
I don't need no TV
I don't need no news
All I need is a bumping beat to bump away my blues
I don't give a damn what the people say
I'm gonna do it my way, gonna do it my way
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, a-ding, ding, ding
I'm gonna let it all out, do my thing
Boom, boom, boom, and a bang, bang, bang
Boom, bang, boom, a-bang, bang
Boom, bang, boom, a-bang, bang
Do your thing
Do your thing, make my body sing
Do your thing
Do your thing
Your thing, my thing, oh, oh, oh, oh
Yeah, lemme see you do your thing now
Yeah, lemme see you do your thing now
Yeah, lemme see you do your thing now
Said shut your mouth
You're in a fateful tiz
Free the mayhem in your mind, release the need inside of you
You're gonna suffer
Because the crowd's so loud
Do your thing, do your thing
Boom, boom, boom, boom, a-bang, bang, bang
Do my thing, doom, boom, boom and a bang, bang, bang
Boom, bang, boom, a-bang, bang
Boom, bang, boom, a-bang, bang
Do your thing, yeah
Do your thing, make my body sing
Do your thing, yeah (touch your head)
Do your thing
Your thing, my thing, oh, oh, oh, oh
Yeah, lemme see you do your thing now
Yeah, lemme see you do your thing now
Yeah, lemme see you do your thing now
(Yeah) clap your hands (do your thing)
Because it's new thing, new swing, new thing, new swing, new thing, new thing, new thing
Boom, boom, boom, and a bang, bang, bang
Boom, bang, boom, a-bang, bang
Boom, boom, boom, and a bang, bang, bang
Do your thing, do your thing
Boom, boom, boom, and a bang, bang, bang
Boom, bang, boom, a-bang, bang
Boom, boom, boom, and a bang, bang, bang
Do your thing, do your thing
Do your thing, yeah
Do your thing
Do your thing, make my body sing
Do your thing, yeah
Do your thing
Do your thing
Your thing, my thing, oh, oh, oh, oh
Do your thing, yeah, lemme see you do your thing now
Do your thing, yeah, lemme see you do your thing now
Yeah, lemme see you do your thing now
Lemme see you do your thing now, now, now, now
I don't need no news
All I need is a bumping beat to bump away my blues
I don't give a damn what the people say
I'm gonna do it my way, gonna do it my way
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, a-ding, ding, ding
I'm gonna let it all out, do my thing
Boom, boom, boom, and a bang, bang, bang
Boom, bang, boom, a-bang, bang
Boom, bang, boom, a-bang, bang
Do your thing
Do your thing, make my body sing
Do your thing
Do your thing
Your thing, my thing, oh, oh, oh, oh
Yeah, lemme see you do your thing now
Yeah, lemme see you do your thing now
Yeah, lemme see you do your thing now
Said shut your mouth
You're in a fateful tiz
Free the mayhem in your mind, release the need inside of you
You're gonna suffer
Because the crowd's so loud
Do your thing, do your thing
Boom, boom, boom, boom, a-bang, bang, bang
Do my thing, doom, boom, boom and a bang, bang, bang
Boom, bang, boom, a-bang, bang
Boom, bang, boom, a-bang, bang
Do your thing, yeah
Do your thing, make my body sing
Do your thing, yeah (touch your head)
Do your thing
Your thing, my thing, oh, oh, oh, oh
Yeah, lemme see you do your thing now
Yeah, lemme see you do your thing now
Yeah, lemme see you do your thing now
(Yeah) clap your hands (do your thing)
Because it's new thing, new swing, new thing, new swing, new thing, new thing, new thing
Boom, boom, boom, and a bang, bang, bang
Boom, bang, boom, a-bang, bang
Boom, boom, boom, and a bang, bang, bang
Do your thing, do your thing
Boom, boom, boom, and a bang, bang, bang
Boom, bang, boom, a-bang, bang
Boom, boom, boom, and a bang, bang, bang
Do your thing, do your thing
Do your thing, yeah
Do your thing
Do your thing, make my body sing
Do your thing, yeah
Do your thing
Do your thing
Your thing, my thing, oh, oh, oh, oh
Do your thing, yeah, lemme see you do your thing now
Do your thing, yeah, lemme see you do your thing now
Yeah, lemme see you do your thing now
Lemme see you do your thing now, now, now, now
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