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"
Well my dog wears a path on the same line
And lately I'm thinking I might take his advice
Yeah yeah
Cause he sees through the fence and he thinks I'm free
Well, my brain and his chain look the same to me
All alone with a cage and a headrest
There's a thing I could get off of my chest
Cause I
Want to wear the path that's true
And I
Want to wear the path with you
Out on the cold off the leash four years or more
I don't even know what it was I was waiting for
Well maybe I barked up the wrong tree
That was then, now I'm back
Won't you see me?
Cause I
Want to wear the path that's true
And I
Want to wear the path with you
Oh it's true
I used to be afraid of growing old
And hanging around the same old place
But I got older anyway
So won't you
So won't you
So won't you brush my fears away
My dog wears a path and that's a good sign
Cause my dog wears a path on the same line
(same line)
All alone in this cage with a headrest
There's a thing I should get off my off chest
(I could get off of my chest)
Buy a house, go to work in the same car
Feed the dog, put our teeth in the same jar
Want to tell you that I
Want to wear the path that's true
And I
Want to wear the path with you
And I
Want to wear the path that's true
And lately I'm thinking I might take his advice
Yeah yeah
Cause he sees through the fence and he thinks I'm free
Well, my brain and his chain look the same to me
All alone with a cage and a headrest
There's a thing I could get off of my chest
Cause I
Want to wear the path that's true
And I
Want to wear the path with you
Out on the cold off the leash four years or more
I don't even know what it was I was waiting for
Well maybe I barked up the wrong tree
That was then, now I'm back
Won't you see me?
Cause I
Want to wear the path that's true
And I
Want to wear the path with you
Oh it's true
I used to be afraid of growing old
And hanging around the same old place
But I got older anyway
So won't you
So won't you
So won't you brush my fears away
My dog wears a path and that's a good sign
Cause my dog wears a path on the same line
(same line)
All alone in this cage with a headrest
There's a thing I should get off my off chest
(I could get off of my chest)
Buy a house, go to work in the same car
Feed the dog, put our teeth in the same jar
Want to tell you that I
Want to wear the path that's true
And I
Want to wear the path with you
And I
Want to wear the path that's true
Lyrics submitted by rodneylove
Dog Lyrics as written by Evan Scott Olson Ben Folds
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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My dog used to do this. Walk the same way from the gate to the back door, until eventually he wore a path. And he'd peek through this little hole in the fence and watch people go by. I think its the most wonderful metaphor, about wanting to stay true to your heart when your brain is too busy trying to over-analyse everything. You should just go the way that is natural, like the dog does.