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"
Violent skies, 10 am
Falling on my knees again
Outside in the underground
Proud in the rain
I'm walking a straight line
Stepped on all of the cracks this time
I don't care, I'm not moving aside for anyone
PRE-CHORUS
Outside in the underground
Proud in the rain
Outside in the underground
There's no way out of here today
CHORUS
I raise my head up to the sky again
And make my way alone
I'm never home but I've stopped searching
Cause the city told me so it all comes down
Down to me
Oh, I've got a hundred lives
Oh, I've got to get it right
Oh, who knows someday I might
Outside in the underground
PRE-CHORUS
Outside in the underground
Proud in the rain
Outside in the underground
There's no way out of here, oh, no way
CHORUS
I raise my head up to the sky again
And make my way alone
I'm never home but I've stopped searching
Cause the city told me it all comes down
Down to me
Oh, I've got a hundred lives
Oh, I've got to get it right
Oh, who knows someday I might
Oh, I've got to get it right
Falling on my knees again
Outside in the underground
Proud in the rain
I'm walking a straight line
Stepped on all of the cracks this time
I don't care, I'm not moving aside for anyone
PRE-CHORUS
Outside in the underground
Proud in the rain
Outside in the underground
There's no way out of here today
CHORUS
I raise my head up to the sky again
And make my way alone
I'm never home but I've stopped searching
Cause the city told me so it all comes down
Down to me
Oh, I've got a hundred lives
Oh, I've got to get it right
Oh, who knows someday I might
Outside in the underground
PRE-CHORUS
Outside in the underground
Proud in the rain
Outside in the underground
There's no way out of here, oh, no way
CHORUS
I raise my head up to the sky again
And make my way alone
I'm never home but I've stopped searching
Cause the city told me it all comes down
Down to me
Oh, I've got a hundred lives
Oh, I've got to get it right
Oh, who knows someday I might
Oh, I've got to get it right
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I doubt that this is a cover. It's one of those songs where John refers to Atlanta and Georgia. The Underground is actually Underground Atlanta, which is an attraction here. It's pretty much an underground shopping center mini-mall. It's also where they hold the New Years peach drop. It's a really popular place to walk about, and that subway would be some type of reference to the MARTA (Atlanta subway) station located next to Underground, (which is linked by a tunnel,) most probably.
This is one of the songs that I love so much because I know the places Mayer refers to. I can imagine walking through Underground with the crowd shoving me for being in their way, stepping outside and looking to the sky, seeing only darkness and feeling rain on my face. I think this song may refer to trying to get an audition to play at Underground and messing up, then coming back and not making the cut again... But then again, I'm not sure what it's about.