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"
Sparks fly on E street when the boy prophets walk in handsome and hot
All the little girls' souls grow weak
When the man-child gives them a double shot
Them schoolboy pops pull out all the stops on a Friday night
The teenage tramps in skin-tight pants
Do the E Street dance and everything's alright
Little kids down there either dancing or hooked up in a scuffle
Dressed in snakeskin suits packed with Detroit muscle
They're doing the E Street Shuffle
Now those E street brats in twilight
Dual flashlight phantoms in full star stream
Down fire trails on silver nights with blonde girls pledged sweet 16
The newsboys say the heat's been bad
Since Power 13 gave a trooper all he had in a summer scuffle
And Power's girl, Little Angel, been on the corner
Keeping those crazy boys out of trouble
Little Angel steps the shuffle like she ain't got no brains
She's deaf in combat down on Lover's Lane
She drives all them local boys insane
Yes, she does
Little Angel says, "Oh, everybody form a line
Oh-oh, oh, everybody form a line"
Well, the sparks fly on E Street
When the boy prophets walk in, handsome and hot
All the little girls' souls grow weak
When the man-child gives them a double shot
Oh, Little Angel hangs out at Easy Joe's
It's a club where all the riot squad goes
When they're cashin' in for a cheap hustle
But them boys are still on the corner
Loose and doin' that lazy E Street Shuffle
And as them sweet summer nights turn into summer dreams
Little Angel picks up Power and he slips on his jeans
And they move on out down to the scene
All the kids are dancin' (higher)
All the little girls' souls grow weak
When the man-child gives them a double shot
Them schoolboy pops pull out all the stops on a Friday night
The teenage tramps in skin-tight pants
Do the E Street dance and everything's alright
Little kids down there either dancing or hooked up in a scuffle
Dressed in snakeskin suits packed with Detroit muscle
They're doing the E Street Shuffle
Now those E street brats in twilight
Dual flashlight phantoms in full star stream
Down fire trails on silver nights with blonde girls pledged sweet 16
The newsboys say the heat's been bad
Since Power 13 gave a trooper all he had in a summer scuffle
And Power's girl, Little Angel, been on the corner
Keeping those crazy boys out of trouble
Little Angel steps the shuffle like she ain't got no brains
She's deaf in combat down on Lover's Lane
She drives all them local boys insane
Yes, she does
Little Angel says, "Oh, everybody form a line
Oh-oh, oh, everybody form a line"
Well, the sparks fly on E Street
When the boy prophets walk in, handsome and hot
All the little girls' souls grow weak
When the man-child gives them a double shot
Oh, Little Angel hangs out at Easy Joe's
It's a club where all the riot squad goes
When they're cashin' in for a cheap hustle
But them boys are still on the corner
Loose and doin' that lazy E Street Shuffle
And as them sweet summer nights turn into summer dreams
Little Angel picks up Power and he slips on his jeans
And they move on out down to the scene
All the kids are dancin' (higher)
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its talking about bruce growing up, in Freehold, NJ. specifically, E-Street, which is a REAL street. ive been on it
E Street is in Belmar