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"
Hey, are y'all ready to party up in here?
I said are you ready to party up in here?
Then I want you to put yo' hands together.
Come on, put yo' hands together and stomp yo' feet.
And welcome to the stage Donnie Simpson.
Come on y'all, bring it up. Make some noise!
Alright, how y'all doin' tonight?
Well, Popeye already asked if you ready to party and obviously you are.
I can't hear you, are you ready to party?
Alright, I am so honored to be here to night.
I've M.C.'d a lot of shows in my time.
But a... this one is the most special ever.
Because it gives me an opportunity to bring some guys together that I love.
I mean they're like brothers to me. They really are.
And they are the reason that I am here tonight.
You know a lot of groups split up. It happens all the time.
I think there should be a law against it.
Especially when it's somebody like... THE TIME!
We've been talkin' about the reunion for a year now. It has finally happened.
And what better place for it to happen than right here in Minneapolis.
Give it up, my brothers: THE TIME!
What time is it?
.... Time to get down to the club. And you ain't gonna like what's happenin'.
Oh Lord!
Ah, excuse me, excuse me.
.... Morris, Morris!
Get these people out of my way.
.... Would you please?
Yeah, I remember you baby, but excuse me.
Jerome?
.... Morris?
Ain't this my club?
.... Your club, Morris.
Fellas?
.... Yeah!
Ain't this my club?
.... Your club, Morris
What is this playin'? Somebody stop the music.
Y'all really wanna dance?
.... Yeah!
Hit it!
I said are you ready to party up in here?
Then I want you to put yo' hands together.
Come on, put yo' hands together and stomp yo' feet.
And welcome to the stage Donnie Simpson.
Come on y'all, bring it up. Make some noise!
Alright, how y'all doin' tonight?
Well, Popeye already asked if you ready to party and obviously you are.
I can't hear you, are you ready to party?
Alright, I am so honored to be here to night.
I've M.C.'d a lot of shows in my time.
But a... this one is the most special ever.
Because it gives me an opportunity to bring some guys together that I love.
I mean they're like brothers to me. They really are.
And they are the reason that I am here tonight.
You know a lot of groups split up. It happens all the time.
I think there should be a law against it.
Especially when it's somebody like... THE TIME!
We've been talkin' about the reunion for a year now. It has finally happened.
And what better place for it to happen than right here in Minneapolis.
Give it up, my brothers: THE TIME!
What time is it?
.... Time to get down to the club. And you ain't gonna like what's happenin'.
Oh Lord!
Ah, excuse me, excuse me.
.... Morris, Morris!
Get these people out of my way.
.... Would you please?
Yeah, I remember you baby, but excuse me.
Jerome?
.... Morris?
Ain't this my club?
.... Your club, Morris.
Fellas?
.... Yeah!
Ain't this my club?
.... Your club, Morris
What is this playin'? Somebody stop the music.
Y'all really wanna dance?
.... Yeah!
Hit it!
Lyrics submitted by maggotbrain
Dreamland Lyrics as written by Prince Rogers Nelson
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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