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"
When I see the moon, I hear the sound of the strip
Just calling my name
Just calling my name
When I see the moon, I hear the sound of the strip
Just calling my name
Yeah, it's calling my name
Man, I love the feel
When I go out
Dancing with the women at the bar
Man I love the feel
When I go out
I always know my woman's close somewhere
My daddy saw the moon, heard the sound of the strip
Yeah, it called out his name
Yeah, it called out his name
My daddy saw the moon, and heard the sound of the strip
Yeah, it called out his name
And it called his son's name too
Man I love the feel
When I go out
Dancing with the women at the bar
Man I love the feel
When I go out
I always know my woman's close somewhere
Close somewhere
When you see the moon, hear the sound of the strip
Yeah, call out my name
Yeah, call out my name
And if you see the moon, or hear the sound of the strip
Yeah, call out my name
And call my friend's names too
Man, I love the feel
When I go out
Dancing with the women at the bar
Man I love the feel
When I go out
I always know my woman's close somewhere
Close somewhere
Just calling my name
Just calling my name
When I see the moon, I hear the sound of the strip
Just calling my name
Yeah, it's calling my name
Man, I love the feel
When I go out
Dancing with the women at the bar
Man I love the feel
When I go out
I always know my woman's close somewhere
My daddy saw the moon, heard the sound of the strip
Yeah, it called out his name
Yeah, it called out his name
My daddy saw the moon, and heard the sound of the strip
Yeah, it called out his name
And it called his son's name too
Man I love the feel
When I go out
Dancing with the women at the bar
Man I love the feel
When I go out
I always know my woman's close somewhere
Close somewhere
When you see the moon, hear the sound of the strip
Yeah, call out my name
Yeah, call out my name
And if you see the moon, or hear the sound of the strip
Yeah, call out my name
And call my friend's names too
Man, I love the feel
When I go out
Dancing with the women at the bar
Man I love the feel
When I go out
I always know my woman's close somewhere
Close somewhere
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It's about going out expecting to find 'the one' someday. He remembers how his dad met his wife while going out and dancing with the women at the bar, so he's expecting to meet his woman the same way. He thinks his friends will meet their women like that is well.
I love the thought. It's a bit naive. Maybe that's why the song sounds a bit melancholic, he doesn't really believe it anymore and he wishes it could only be this simple, or that he could be only as naive to believe it again.
I've lived this song.