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"
(konishi)
Translators: taichi azuma
Haru nanoni
'date' mo shinai no ?
Baby fushigi jyanai ?
Ima suguni
Uchi made mukae ni
Baby kite kurenai ?
Denwa shite sukoshi
Amaete-mita nowa
Kono koi ga
Honto no koi ka
Shiritaku natta no
'wild' ni
Dokoka e 'drive'
Baby sugu ikanai ?
Ichiban suki na fuku
Amai 'pastel' no
Kono koi ga honto no koi nara
Ii to omowanai ?
Baby baby baby imasugu
Baby baby baby aini kite
Shiawase na koi no yokan
Kesa kara
Nantonaku kizuiteta no
Daisuki na
'record' kakaete
Baby aini kite
'portable player' ga
Mawari hajimetara
Kono koi ga honto no koi
Dato anata mo shinjiru ?
Baby baby baby imasugu
Baby baby baby aini kite
Shiawase na koi no yokan
Kesa kara
Anata mo kizuiteta no ?
Kono koi ga honto no koi nara
Ii to omowanai ?
Baby baby baby imasugu
Baby baby baby aini kite
Shiawase na koi no yokan
Kesa kara
Nantonaku kizuiteta
Kotoshi no haru wa kitto
Ureshii koto ga arutte
Baby baby baby imasugu
Baby baby baby aini kite
Baby baby baby imasugu
Baby baby baby aini kite
Baby baby baby baby baby etc...
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Don't you date
Although it's spring ?
Baby, isn't it strange?
Baby won't you come
Pick me up
At my front door?
I was like a spoilt child
On the phone
But I want to know
If our love
Is true
Driving wild
Goin' somewhere
Baby why don't we go?
In my favorite
Sweet pastel dress
Don't you think this
Is true love?
Baby baby baby as soon as you can
Baby baby baby come to me
I feel this is happy love
And I've felt
This way since morning
Bring your
Favorite record
Baby come to me
When the portable player
Starts to spin
Don't you believe
Our love is true?
Baby baby baby as soon as you can
Baby baby baby come to me
I feel this is happy love
Haven't you
Felt it since morning?
Don't you wish
Our love were true?
Baby baby baby as soon as you can
Baby baby baby come to me
I feel this is happy love
And I've felt this way
Since morning
This spring
I know something joyful will happen
Baby baby baby as soon as you can
Baby baby baby come to me
Baby baby baby as soon as you can
Baby baby baby come to me
Baby baby baby baby baby etc...
Translators: taichi azuma
Haru nanoni
'date' mo shinai no ?
Baby fushigi jyanai ?
Ima suguni
Uchi made mukae ni
Baby kite kurenai ?
Denwa shite sukoshi
Amaete-mita nowa
Kono koi ga
Honto no koi ka
Shiritaku natta no
'wild' ni
Dokoka e 'drive'
Baby sugu ikanai ?
Ichiban suki na fuku
Amai 'pastel' no
Kono koi ga honto no koi nara
Ii to omowanai ?
Baby baby baby imasugu
Baby baby baby aini kite
Shiawase na koi no yokan
Kesa kara
Nantonaku kizuiteta no
Daisuki na
'record' kakaete
Baby aini kite
'portable player' ga
Mawari hajimetara
Kono koi ga honto no koi
Dato anata mo shinjiru ?
Baby baby baby imasugu
Baby baby baby aini kite
Shiawase na koi no yokan
Kesa kara
Anata mo kizuiteta no ?
Kono koi ga honto no koi nara
Ii to omowanai ?
Baby baby baby imasugu
Baby baby baby aini kite
Shiawase na koi no yokan
Kesa kara
Nantonaku kizuiteta
Kotoshi no haru wa kitto
Ureshii koto ga arutte
Baby baby baby imasugu
Baby baby baby aini kite
Baby baby baby imasugu
Baby baby baby aini kite
Baby baby baby baby baby etc...
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Don't you date
Although it's spring ?
Baby, isn't it strange?
Baby won't you come
Pick me up
At my front door?
I was like a spoilt child
On the phone
But I want to know
If our love
Is true
Driving wild
Goin' somewhere
Baby why don't we go?
In my favorite
Sweet pastel dress
Don't you think this
Is true love?
Baby baby baby as soon as you can
Baby baby baby come to me
I feel this is happy love
And I've felt
This way since morning
Bring your
Favorite record
Baby come to me
When the portable player
Starts to spin
Don't you believe
Our love is true?
Baby baby baby as soon as you can
Baby baby baby come to me
I feel this is happy love
Haven't you
Felt it since morning?
Don't you wish
Our love were true?
Baby baby baby as soon as you can
Baby baby baby come to me
I feel this is happy love
And I've felt this way
Since morning
This spring
I know something joyful will happen
Baby baby baby as soon as you can
Baby baby baby come to me
Baby baby baby as soon as you can
Baby baby baby come to me
Baby baby baby baby baby etc...
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