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"
There's a black tinted sunset with the prettiest of skies
Lay back, lay back, rest you head on my thighs
There is some awful action that just breathes from my hand
Just breaths from a deed so exquisetly grand
And you are always on my mind
And you are always on my mind
And you are always on my mind
And you are always on my mind
Well, I would not have moved if I knew you were here
It's some special action with motives unclear
Now you'll haunt me, you'll haunt me till I've paid for what I've done
It's a payment which precludes the having of fun
And you are always on my mind
And you are always on my mind
And you are always on my mind
And you are always on my mind
But hello, o I've got anew partner riding with me
I've got a new partner now
Now the sun's fading faster, we're ready to go
There's a skirt in the bedroom that's pleasantly low
And the loons on the moor, the fish in the flow
And my friends, my friends still will whisper hello
We all know what we know, it's a hard swath to mow
When you think like a hermit you forget what you know
And you are always on my mind
And you are always on my mind
And you are always on my mind
And you are always on my mind
O, o I've got a new partner riding with me
I've got a new partner riding with me
I've got a new partner riding with me
I've got a new partner now
Lay back, lay back, rest you head on my thighs
There is some awful action that just breathes from my hand
Just breaths from a deed so exquisetly grand
And you are always on my mind
And you are always on my mind
And you are always on my mind
And you are always on my mind
Well, I would not have moved if I knew you were here
It's some special action with motives unclear
Now you'll haunt me, you'll haunt me till I've paid for what I've done
It's a payment which precludes the having of fun
And you are always on my mind
And you are always on my mind
And you are always on my mind
And you are always on my mind
But hello, o I've got anew partner riding with me
I've got a new partner now
Now the sun's fading faster, we're ready to go
There's a skirt in the bedroom that's pleasantly low
And the loons on the moor, the fish in the flow
And my friends, my friends still will whisper hello
We all know what we know, it's a hard swath to mow
When you think like a hermit you forget what you know
And you are always on my mind
And you are always on my mind
And you are always on my mind
And you are always on my mind
O, o I've got a new partner riding with me
I've got a new partner riding with me
I've got a new partner riding with me
I've got a new partner now
Lyrics submitted by dannyw
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pretty self explanitory. a goreous song! and not perverted!!
Yes, it is perverted, and that's part of what makes the song so good. See my response on the correct citation for this song: it's a Palace Music song, one of Will Oldham's groups but not just Will Oldham. And it's not altogether that self-explanatory.