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"
Tell me lies
Slap me on the face just to improvise
Do something really clever
That'll make me hate your name forever
You might swear
You'd never touch a lady
Well, let me say
You're not too far from maybe
Every day you find new ways to hurt me
But I can't help it if I'm just a fool
Always having my heart set on you
'Til the time you start changing the rules
I'll keep chasing the soles of your shoes
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Fool
God resigned
From hearing my old story
Every night
I'm paying hell for glory
I'm embarrassed but I'm much more sorry
All this pain
Begins to feel like pleasure
With my tears
You'd make a sea a desert
Salt my wounds and I'll keep saying thank you
But I can't help it if I'm just a fool
Always having my heart set on you
'Til the time you start changing the rules
I'll keep chasing the soles of your shoes
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Fool
But I can't help it if I'm just a fool
Always having my heart set on you
'Til the time you start changing the rules
I'll keep chasing the soles of your shoes
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Fool
I can't help it, baby
Ah-ah-ah-ah, fool
I can't help it, baby
Ah-ah-ah-ah, fool
I can't help it, baby
Ah-ah-ah-ah, fool
I can't help it, baby, baby
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Fool
I'm a fool
I'm a fool
Ah-ah-ah-ah
Slap me on the face just to improvise
Do something really clever
That'll make me hate your name forever
You might swear
You'd never touch a lady
Well, let me say
You're not too far from maybe
Every day you find new ways to hurt me
But I can't help it if I'm just a fool
Always having my heart set on you
'Til the time you start changing the rules
I'll keep chasing the soles of your shoes
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Fool
God resigned
From hearing my old story
Every night
I'm paying hell for glory
I'm embarrassed but I'm much more sorry
All this pain
Begins to feel like pleasure
With my tears
You'd make a sea a desert
Salt my wounds and I'll keep saying thank you
But I can't help it if I'm just a fool
Always having my heart set on you
'Til the time you start changing the rules
I'll keep chasing the soles of your shoes
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Fool
But I can't help it if I'm just a fool
Always having my heart set on you
'Til the time you start changing the rules
I'll keep chasing the soles of your shoes
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Fool
I can't help it, baby
Ah-ah-ah-ah, fool
I can't help it, baby
Ah-ah-ah-ah, fool
I can't help it, baby
Ah-ah-ah-ah, fool
I can't help it, baby, baby
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Fool
I'm a fool
I'm a fool
Ah-ah-ah-ah
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I love this song...it is the epitamy of how women feel when they fall for a guy...the obsession that comsumes us...wanting to give our all...always going faster than the guy...we are masocist with the obsession of wanting him to want us completely. The song has everything to do with psychological abuse men are so good at. If you break it down this is my opinion of the song:
Tell me lies, slap me on the face, just improvise do something really clever that'll make me hate your name forever
(She wants him to find a way for her to let go of him...in her mind he is too perfect)
You might swear you'd never touch a lady well, let me say you're not too far from maybe every day you find new ways to hurt me
(This is where the psychological abuse is implied...guys find so many ways to hurt us without it being physical...forgetting important things, ignoring us...etc.)
But I can't help it if I'm just a fool always having my heart set on you 'til the time you start changing the rules I'll keep chasing the soles of your shoes
(And just like us we take it because the love of this man is more important)
Got resigned from hearing my own story every night I'm paying hell for glory I'm embarrassed but I'm much more sorry
(And she knows that she made her bed and she has to lay in it...because he is what she wants. Inward she is ashamed of how she acts...but she will keep doing it to herself)
All this pain begins to feel like pleasure with more tears you'd make a seaof desert salt my wounds and i'll keep saying thank you
(Women start too feel like it's normal to be with an emotionally challenged man...and they start feeling like the abuse is normal)
That is just how I see it...
I LOVE THIS SONG TOO. IT REMIND ME SO MUCH OF MY EX BOYFRIEND. IT HAS THE NAME RICARDO ALL OVER AND IN BETWEEN THE LINES. BUT THE REASON I LOVE THIS SONG IS THAT WHEN I WAS FEELING JUST LIKE THE SONG, I WAS TERRIBLY DEPRESSED AND CONFUSED. BUT NOW I CAN LOOK AT IT AND SMILE AS MEMMORIES FLOOD BACK, AND REMEBER ALL THE LESSONS I LEARNED FROM THAT TIME IN MY LIFE. AND THE ONE AND ONLY REASON I CAN SMILE IS BECAUSE THE LOVE OF MY LIFE BOYFRIEND HELPED ME TO GET THROUGH IT. THANX BABE, I LOVE YOU. AND FOR ALL THOSE GIRLS WHO ARE GOING THROUGH THIS RIGHT NOW, DONT LOSE HOPE OR FAITH OR DO ANYTHING TO HURT YOURSELF, THIS IS JUST A MILESTONE IN YOUR LIFE AND TRUST ME YOU WILL GET THROUGH IT. LOVES YA
It's a "I'm being abused but I love you" song... it's so true for some people
you r so right. how sad. =)
Soz, peeps, I love the song, but my fixations on correct lyrics still extst, so:
Tell me lies, slap me on the face, just Improvise, do something really clever That'll make me hate your name forever You might swear, you'd never touch a lady Well, let me say, you're not too far from maybe Every day you find new ways to hurt me
But I can't help it if I'm just a fool Always having my heart set on you 'Til the time you start changing the rules I'll keep chasing the soles of your shoes Oh, fool
Got resigned from hearing my old story Every night, I'm paying Hell for glory I'm embarrassed but I'm much more sorry All this pain begins to feel like pleasure With my tears, you'd make a sea a desert Salt my wounds and I'll keep saying "thank you"
But I can't help it if I'm just a fool Always having my heart set on you 'Til the time you start changing the rules I'll keep chasing the soles of your shoes Oh, fool
But I can't help it if I'm just a fool Always having my heart set on you 'Til the time you start changing the rules I'll keep chasing the soles of your shoes Oh, fool
I can't help it baby (Oh, fool) I can't help it baby (Oh, fool) I can't help it baby (Oh, fool) I can't help it baby, baby
Oh Fool I'm a fool I'm a fool
both of you are pathetic!!! Never let a guy step over you, you have to know when to stand your grouds, Like Tracy, I went through the same thing!!!
You know, some people love others no matter what they have done to them... I'm one of them, unfortunately
Lyric Correction: "Got resigned, from hearing my old story" is actually, "God resigned, from hearing my old story." I know what "syd Mel" means about her last remark. I'm the same way, but don't think it's bad or anything, it just means you have a big enough heart to FORGIVE and forget. Personally, that sounds better than losing love. I can totally relate to this song.
someone who knows what I'm saying ;) welcome aboard!
My interpretation of this song is that the singer is in love with someone and really can't help it, but the object of her affection doesn't love her back. (Or possibly, he's homosexual: "You might swear you'd never touch a lady" and "Until the time you start changing the rules") I love this song and can really relate to it. It's my favorite song on the CD. :)