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"
Up on the Oregon coastline where the forest kisses the sea
Laid back on a backwoods backroad is where I'll be
Off the map and under the stars, running in the redwoods
Out of the rat race and into the goodlife where it's beautiful
Up on the Oregon coastline where the fog blankets the trees
Singing along to the song of the Pacific is where I'll be
Cooling in out in Colorado where the earth touches the sky
Living large on a scenic route getting Rocky Mountain high
Snowflakes and deep blue lakes a pine dressed acre on a night
Moonlight on a white winter night, quite in love and slight
Cooling out in Colorado, the range life is the life for me
By the fire in an old log cabin is where I'll be
So get me free and take me away
Back to the basics and on to better days
There's a treasure buried in an old small town
I'll find my peace, I'll come down
Laid back on a backwoods backroad is where I'll be
Off the map and under the stars, running in the redwoods
Out of the rat race and into the goodlife where it's beautiful
Up on the Oregon coastline where the fog blankets the trees
Singing along to the song of the Pacific is where I'll be
Cooling in out in Colorado where the earth touches the sky
Living large on a scenic route getting Rocky Mountain high
Snowflakes and deep blue lakes a pine dressed acre on a night
Moonlight on a white winter night, quite in love and slight
Cooling out in Colorado, the range life is the life for me
By the fire in an old log cabin is where I'll be
So get me free and take me away
Back to the basics and on to better days
There's a treasure buried in an old small town
I'll find my peace, I'll come down
Lyrics submitted by whatarewe
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