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"
Oh, show me the way to the next whiskey bar
Oh, don't ask why, no, don't ask why
For we must find the next whiskey bar
Or if we don't find the next whiskey bar
I tell you we must die, I tell you we must die
I tell you, I tell you, I tell you we must die
Oh, moon of Alabama, it's time to say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have whiskey or you know why
Oh, moon of Alabama, it's time to say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have whiskey or you know why
Oh, show us the way to the next little dollar
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why
For we must find the next little dollar
Or if we don't find the next little dollar
I tell you we must die, I tell you we must die
I tell you, I tell you, I tell you we must die
Oh, moon of Alabama, it's time to say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have dollar or you know why
Oh, moon of Alabama, it's time to say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have dollar or you know why
Oh, show us the way to the next little girl
Oh, don't ask why, no, don't ask why
For we must find the next little girl
Or if we don't find the next little girl
I tell you we must die, I tell you we must die
I tell you, I tell you, I tell you we must die
Oh, moon of Alabama, it's time to say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have little girl or you know why
Oh, moon of Alabama, it's time to say auf Wiedersehen
We've lost our good old mama
And must have little girl or you know why
You know why, you know why
Oh, don't ask why, no, don't ask why
For we must find the next whiskey bar
Or if we don't find the next whiskey bar
I tell you we must die, I tell you we must die
I tell you, I tell you, I tell you we must die
Oh, moon of Alabama, it's time to say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have whiskey or you know why
Oh, moon of Alabama, it's time to say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have whiskey or you know why
Oh, show us the way to the next little dollar
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why
For we must find the next little dollar
Or if we don't find the next little dollar
I tell you we must die, I tell you we must die
I tell you, I tell you, I tell you we must die
Oh, moon of Alabama, it's time to say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have dollar or you know why
Oh, moon of Alabama, it's time to say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have dollar or you know why
Oh, show us the way to the next little girl
Oh, don't ask why, no, don't ask why
For we must find the next little girl
Or if we don't find the next little girl
I tell you we must die, I tell you we must die
I tell you, I tell you, I tell you we must die
Oh, moon of Alabama, it's time to say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have little girl or you know why
Oh, moon of Alabama, it's time to say auf Wiedersehen
We've lost our good old mama
And must have little girl or you know why
You know why, you know why
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