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 wanna bruise your lips
With a tender kiss
I wanna crush your heart
I wanna be your star
And when you're touchin' me
I hear a symphony
Oh, oh, oh, baby
Come on my baby
Someone get a priest
Maybe the police
I think that we should call
The Justice of the Peace
You're a pretty young thing
Ah, it's a damn cool thing
Oh, I gotta tell the world
In case they haven't heard
There never was a doubt
Oh, baby hush your mouth
You're a pretty young thing
Ah, it's a damn cool thing
Let me hear my name
Baby say it again
I wanna take you on
I wanna be the one
And when you're closing in
I hear violins
Oh, oh, oh, baby
Come on my baby
Someone get a priest
Maybe the police
I think that we should call
The Justice of the Peace
You're a pretty young thing
Ah, it's a damn cool thing
I gotta tell the world
In case they haven't heard
There never was a doubt
Oh baby, hush your mouth
You're a pretty young thing
Ah, it's a damn cool thing
Oh pretty young thing
Don't need no diamond ring
I'll give you everything
I'll show you anything
Oh hush, oh just hush
Don't say a word
Someone get a priest
Maybe the police
I think that we should call
The Justice of the Peace
You're a pretty young thing
Ah, it's a damn cool thing
I gotta tell the world
In case they haven't heard
There never was a doubt
Oh baby, hush your mouth
You're a pretty young thing
Ah, it's a damn cool thing
I think we should call
Oh, such a pretty young thing
With a tender kiss
I wanna crush your heart
I wanna be your star
And when you're touchin' me
I hear a symphony
Oh, oh, oh, baby
Come on my baby
Someone get a priest
Maybe the police
I think that we should call
The Justice of the Peace
You're a pretty young thing
Ah, it's a damn cool thing
Oh, I gotta tell the world
In case they haven't heard
There never was a doubt
Oh, baby hush your mouth
You're a pretty young thing
Ah, it's a damn cool thing
Let me hear my name
Baby say it again
I wanna take you on
I wanna be the one
And when you're closing in
I hear violins
Oh, oh, oh, baby
Come on my baby
Someone get a priest
Maybe the police
I think that we should call
The Justice of the Peace
You're a pretty young thing
Ah, it's a damn cool thing
I gotta tell the world
In case they haven't heard
There never was a doubt
Oh baby, hush your mouth
You're a pretty young thing
Ah, it's a damn cool thing
Oh pretty young thing
Don't need no diamond ring
I'll give you everything
I'll show you anything
Oh hush, oh just hush
Don't say a word
Someone get a priest
Maybe the police
I think that we should call
The Justice of the Peace
You're a pretty young thing
Ah, it's a damn cool thing
I gotta tell the world
In case they haven't heard
There never was a doubt
Oh baby, hush your mouth
You're a pretty young thing
Ah, it's a damn cool thing
I think we should call
Oh, such a pretty young thing
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Pretty Young Thing Lyrics as written by Walter Turbitt Steve Torch
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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