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"
Hail! Hail! to you and him drive my car to your midnight swim
Praise to you as you drink my beer and you play my tape with your legs in the air
My head is clear my ride is clean it’s been detailed since the rain
Do you remember the nights when we danced to the tunes of DJ Jesse De La Pena
I don’t wanna be alone with you
I don’t wanna be alone with you
but I don’t want to be alone
Tonight stars a waitress at the bar got a honey on deck got a hottie in the hole
Met a cop pit core smiled like a whore
Got a punk rock girl at the Rock 'N Bowl
Poor woman smiles at the lincoln mall
She stinks of free prefume
Pancake death pain sweet dreams no thrills
Make over anyone
I don’t wanna be alone with you
I don’t wanna be alone with you
but I don’t wanna be alone
I’ve been weak I’m gettin weaker since you’ve been gone
You look sleeker, leaner, liquid, luscious, lusty, close to four and almost dusky
Dirty distant misty manic kind of pleasantly satanic
Hail! Hail! Hail!
Hail! Hail! Hail!
Hail! Hail! Hail!
Hail! Hail! Hail!
Hail! Hail!
Hail! Hail! to you and him drive my car to your midnight swim
Praise to you as you drink my beer and you play my tape with your legs in the air
My head is clear my head is clean I saw tomorrow today
Remember those betoken days remember those malignant nights
Remember those remote days remember those revolting nights
Remember those polluted days remember those malignant nights
Remember those benign nights remember those malignant days
I don’t wanna be alone with you
but I don’t wanna be alone
I don’t wanna be alone with you
I don’t wanna be alone with you
I don’t wanna be alone with you
I don’t wanna be alone
I don’t wanna be alone with you
I don’t wanna be alone
Praise to you as you drink my beer and you play my tape with your legs in the air
My head is clear my ride is clean it’s been detailed since the rain
Do you remember the nights when we danced to the tunes of DJ Jesse De La Pena
I don’t wanna be alone with you
I don’t wanna be alone with you
but I don’t want to be alone
Tonight stars a waitress at the bar got a honey on deck got a hottie in the hole
Met a cop pit core smiled like a whore
Got a punk rock girl at the Rock 'N Bowl
Poor woman smiles at the lincoln mall
She stinks of free prefume
Pancake death pain sweet dreams no thrills
Make over anyone
I don’t wanna be alone with you
I don’t wanna be alone with you
but I don’t wanna be alone
I’ve been weak I’m gettin weaker since you’ve been gone
You look sleeker, leaner, liquid, luscious, lusty, close to four and almost dusky
Dirty distant misty manic kind of pleasantly satanic
Hail! Hail! Hail!
Hail! Hail! Hail!
Hail! Hail! Hail!
Hail! Hail! Hail!
Hail! Hail!
Hail! Hail! to you and him drive my car to your midnight swim
Praise to you as you drink my beer and you play my tape with your legs in the air
My head is clear my head is clean I saw tomorrow today
Remember those betoken days remember those malignant nights
Remember those remote days remember those revolting nights
Remember those polluted days remember those malignant nights
Remember those benign nights remember those malignant days
I don’t wanna be alone with you
but I don’t wanna be alone
I don’t wanna be alone with you
I don’t wanna be alone with you
I don’t wanna be alone with you
I don’t wanna be alone
I don’t wanna be alone with you
I don’t wanna be alone
Lyrics submitted by aniota
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