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"
We ain't goin' to the town
We're goin' to the city
Gonna track this shit around
And make this place a heart to be a part of
We ain't goin' to the town
We're goin' to the city
Gonna track this shit around
And make this place a heart to be a part of
Again
Goin'
We're goin'
We're goin'
And we're gone
We're goin'
We're goin'
Goin'
We're gone
So, baby, make it with me in preparation for tonight
We've got so much to leave
But that's not what makes this right
You've been building up steam
Ignited by this fight
So do this thing with me
Instead of tying on a tight one tonight
Goin'
Goin'
Goin'
And we're gone
We ain't goin' to the town
We're goin' to the city
Gonna track this shit around
And make this place a heart to be a part of
Again
We're goin' to the city
Gonna track this shit around
And make this place a heart to be a part of
We ain't goin' to the town
We're goin' to the city
Gonna track this shit around
And make this place a heart to be a part of
Again
Goin'
We're goin'
We're goin'
And we're gone
We're goin'
We're goin'
Goin'
We're gone
So, baby, make it with me in preparation for tonight
We've got so much to leave
But that's not what makes this right
You've been building up steam
Ignited by this fight
So do this thing with me
Instead of tying on a tight one tonight
Goin'
Goin'
Goin'
And we're gone
We ain't goin' to the town
We're goin' to the city
Gonna track this shit around
And make this place a heart to be a part of
Again
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It is not. Not everything is about sex, much less unprotected sex. How many heads do you guys actually have to be so obsessed with sex??? Geesh!
I've read that the average man (if such a creature exits) thinks about sex every few minutes per day. I'm just saying that it's as if they have multiple organs because their minds appear to be on the topic constantly. They are not that way when it comes to love songs:) Yes, I am generalizing. So be it.