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'll tell you a story, what happened a long time-a
And it won't happen any more, more, more, more, more, more
You tell that girl everything that you wanted to
And then she wanted a little bit more, more, more, more, more, more
[Chorus]
Girls, girls are, they are so unpredictable
You can't believe what they tell you
Unpredictable, you gotta throw it away
Girls are so unpredictable, bull, bull, bull, bull, bull
You tell that girl everything that you wanted to
And then she wanted a little bit more, more, more, more, more, more
You tell her you don't want to see her pretty little face again, so
You don't go knocking at my door, door, door, door, door, door
[Chorus]
You tell that girl everything that you wanted to
And then she wanted a little bit more, more, more, more, more, more
You tell her you don't want to see her pretty little face again, so
You don't go knocking at my door, door, door, door, door, door
[Chorus]
And it won't happen any more, more, more, more, more, more
You tell that girl everything that you wanted to
And then she wanted a little bit more, more, more, more, more, more
[Chorus]
Girls, girls are, they are so unpredictable
You can't believe what they tell you
Unpredictable, you gotta throw it away
Girls are so unpredictable, bull, bull, bull, bull, bull
You tell that girl everything that you wanted to
And then she wanted a little bit more, more, more, more, more, more
You tell her you don't want to see her pretty little face again, so
You don't go knocking at my door, door, door, door, door, door
[Chorus]
You tell that girl everything that you wanted to
And then she wanted a little bit more, more, more, more, more, more
You tell her you don't want to see her pretty little face again, so
You don't go knocking at my door, door, door, door, door, door
[Chorus]
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Well, to begin with the song starts out "I'll tell you a story", not "Do a story".
"I told that girl everything that she wanted to" not "Do that girl"
Anyway, I'm not even going to read the rest. This song is self explanatory and it 's from the old Jabber days. Let me tell you that you would NEVER think this is GG if you've only heard his solo work. It's very catchy classic punk rock. One of the best.