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"
A old cowboy went riding out one dark and windy day.
Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way.
When all at once a mighty herd of red eyed cows he saw
ploughing through the ragged skys and up the cloudy draws.
Their brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel.
Their horns were black and shiny and their hot breath he could feel.
A bolt of fear went through him as they thundered through the sky.
For he saw the riders comming hard and he heard their mournful cry.
Yippee-I-Oh...
Yippee-I-Ay...
Ghost riders in the sky.
Their faces gone, theirs eyes were blurred, their shirts all soaked with sweat.
He's riding hard to catch that herd but he aint caught them yet.
Cause they've got to ride forever on that range up in the sky.
All horses snorting fire as they ride on hear their cry.
As the riders look on by him he heard one call his name.
"If you want to save your soul from hell riding on our range,
then cowboy change your ways today or with us you will ride.
Trying to catch the Devil's herd across these endless skies.
Yippee-I-Oh...
Yippee-I-Ay...
Ghost riders in the sky.(x3)
Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way.
When all at once a mighty herd of red eyed cows he saw
ploughing through the ragged skys and up the cloudy draws.
Their brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel.
Their horns were black and shiny and their hot breath he could feel.
A bolt of fear went through him as they thundered through the sky.
For he saw the riders comming hard and he heard their mournful cry.
Yippee-I-Oh...
Yippee-I-Ay...
Ghost riders in the sky.
Their faces gone, theirs eyes were blurred, their shirts all soaked with sweat.
He's riding hard to catch that herd but he aint caught them yet.
Cause they've got to ride forever on that range up in the sky.
All horses snorting fire as they ride on hear their cry.
As the riders look on by him he heard one call his name.
"If you want to save your soul from hell riding on our range,
then cowboy change your ways today or with us you will ride.
Trying to catch the Devil's herd across these endless skies.
Yippee-I-Oh...
Yippee-I-Ay...
Ghost riders in the sky.(x3)
Lyrics submitted by snc8698
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