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"
Tea time at Damascus computer cafe,
I'm looking busy and staring off the other way.
Leverkusen, Juventus; Leeds vs. Valencia:
I'm over-hearing all their nonsense in extensia.
They're talking too tough for me to inspect
So I have a smell who seems the best to connect.
I pick my clique and set to go to work
But the only thing they care about is to whom to play the Turk.
So I walked up the length of the Street they call Straight
Cursing myself cause I got there too late.
I traded an expired credit card for two cupfulls of water;
They had a dirty beany baby so for good luck I bought her.
I rented a Hyundai with two flats and no windshield
No speedometer and a handbrake that squealed;
When the sun came up I couldn't put down the visor
So I put on my hat and a question to my local advisor:
Whose trucks are those that parked up by the town?
But he only would mumble with his eyes pointed down.
So I walked up the length of the Street they call Straight
Cursing myself cause I got there too late.
My boss the head of sales for Western Asia
Said you'll get fired if your opposite from Nokia plays ya,
If he beats you for the battle of hearts and minds
Tells 'em we use pig by-products in our designs.
So when I saw my rival's smile didn't get diminished
No one had to tell me I knew that we were Finnished:
You boys from Ericsson better get in the back seat
'Cause your phones are getting stoned over on that straight street.
So I walked up the length of the Street they call Straight
Cursing myself cause I got there too late.
So I went to Georgia looking at spas and convents
Tried to make myself the broker for selling off the contents.
At the big change clinic my friends said don't be a cynic
You should work in Baku this is watcha gotta do.
Call a contact in Texas talk to 'em in their Lexus
On their hands-free device and don't be too nice.
But in my teleconference with Houston
They told me I wasn't any use to 'em.
So I walked up the length of the Street they call Straight
Cursing myself cause I got there too late.
Tea time at Damascus computer cafe,
I'm looking busy and staring off the other way.
Arsenal, Inter; Madrid vs. Valencia:
I'm over-hearing all their nonsense in extensia.
They're talking too tough for me to inspect
So I have a smell who seems the best to connect.
I pick my clique and set to go to work
But the only thing they care about is to whom to play the Turk.
So I walked up the length of the Street they call Straight
Cursing myself cause I got there too late.
I'm looking busy and staring off the other way.
Leverkusen, Juventus; Leeds vs. Valencia:
I'm over-hearing all their nonsense in extensia.
They're talking too tough for me to inspect
So I have a smell who seems the best to connect.
I pick my clique and set to go to work
But the only thing they care about is to whom to play the Turk.
So I walked up the length of the Street they call Straight
Cursing myself cause I got there too late.
I traded an expired credit card for two cupfulls of water;
They had a dirty beany baby so for good luck I bought her.
I rented a Hyundai with two flats and no windshield
No speedometer and a handbrake that squealed;
When the sun came up I couldn't put down the visor
So I put on my hat and a question to my local advisor:
Whose trucks are those that parked up by the town?
But he only would mumble with his eyes pointed down.
So I walked up the length of the Street they call Straight
Cursing myself cause I got there too late.
My boss the head of sales for Western Asia
Said you'll get fired if your opposite from Nokia plays ya,
If he beats you for the battle of hearts and minds
Tells 'em we use pig by-products in our designs.
So when I saw my rival's smile didn't get diminished
No one had to tell me I knew that we were Finnished:
You boys from Ericsson better get in the back seat
'Cause your phones are getting stoned over on that straight street.
So I walked up the length of the Street they call Straight
Cursing myself cause I got there too late.
So I went to Georgia looking at spas and convents
Tried to make myself the broker for selling off the contents.
At the big change clinic my friends said don't be a cynic
You should work in Baku this is watcha gotta do.
Call a contact in Texas talk to 'em in their Lexus
On their hands-free device and don't be too nice.
But in my teleconference with Houston
They told me I wasn't any use to 'em.
So I walked up the length of the Street they call Straight
Cursing myself cause I got there too late.
Tea time at Damascus computer cafe,
I'm looking busy and staring off the other way.
Arsenal, Inter; Madrid vs. Valencia:
I'm over-hearing all their nonsense in extensia.
They're talking too tough for me to inspect
So I have a smell who seems the best to connect.
I pick my clique and set to go to work
But the only thing they care about is to whom to play the Turk.
So I walked up the length of the Street they call Straight
Cursing myself cause I got there too late.
Lyrics submitted by tirhascragoo
Straight Street Lyrics as written by Matthew Friedberger
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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AH! I get it, "Finnished". Nokia, right? Never picked that up before.
Hahaha, right on, valrus.