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"
Now when this over
Over and through
And all them changes have come and passed
I wanna meet you in the big sky country
Just wanna prove, mama, love can last, yeah.
Like hallelujiah in the big sky country,
Just like forever and ever is why.
Be getting over in the big sky country,
Big kissing time, kissing time goodbye.
God knows it's all been done,
and let me tell you why.
Cause you held my number,
you held my name,
you held my body through the thick and thin,
On a bed of roses in the big sky country,
Spread out to love you, love you in your second skin
Like hallelujiah in the big sky country,
Just like forever and ever is why.
Be getting over in the big sky country,
Big kissing time, kissing time goodbye.
Hallelujiah, mama, razzle-dazzle,
from the cries that got lights all over the place,
Hallelujiah, I mean, Lordy, hallelujiah
If I can only come around once and see your face.
So just watch them lovers out on parade.
Watching lovers while they slip and slide.
They gonna prove it to the big sky country,
Just gonna prove it while the whole world collides,
Like hallelujiah in the big sky country,
Just like forever and ever is why,
Be getting over in the big sky country,
Big kissing time, kissing time goodbye.
Maybe I'll make up in the big sky country,
Be just like lovers, and love is why.
When we hold over till the big sky country.
Big kissing time, kissing time goodbye.
Big sky country. (x6)
Over and through
And all them changes have come and passed
I wanna meet you in the big sky country
Just wanna prove, mama, love can last, yeah.
Like hallelujiah in the big sky country,
Just like forever and ever is why.
Be getting over in the big sky country,
Big kissing time, kissing time goodbye.
God knows it's all been done,
and let me tell you why.
Cause you held my number,
you held my name,
you held my body through the thick and thin,
On a bed of roses in the big sky country,
Spread out to love you, love you in your second skin
Like hallelujiah in the big sky country,
Just like forever and ever is why.
Be getting over in the big sky country,
Big kissing time, kissing time goodbye.
Hallelujiah, mama, razzle-dazzle,
from the cries that got lights all over the place,
Hallelujiah, I mean, Lordy, hallelujiah
If I can only come around once and see your face.
So just watch them lovers out on parade.
Watching lovers while they slip and slide.
They gonna prove it to the big sky country,
Just gonna prove it while the whole world collides,
Like hallelujiah in the big sky country,
Just like forever and ever is why,
Be getting over in the big sky country,
Big kissing time, kissing time goodbye.
Maybe I'll make up in the big sky country,
Be just like lovers, and love is why.
When we hold over till the big sky country.
Big kissing time, kissing time goodbye.
Big sky country. (x6)
Lyrics submitted by MelvinFrohike
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