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"
some people call me the space cowboy
and some people call me the gangster of love
yeah...
and some people walking around call me maurice
'cause i speak on the pompitice of love
people talk about me baby
they say i'm doing you wrong
doing you wrong, doing you wrong
well don't let that worry you baby
'cause i'm right here, right here,
right here, right here at home
everybody sing alone
'cause i'm a picker, i'm grinner,
i'm a lover and i'm a sinner
i play my music in the sun
i'm a joker, i'm a smoker
i'm a midnight toker
i get my lovin on the run
you're the cutest thang that i ever did see
i really love your peaches, i want to shake your tree
lovey dovey, lovey dovey
lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time
oh me babe, i'm gonna show you a good time, baby
'cause i'm a picker, i'm grinner,
i'm a lover and i'm a sinner
i play my music in the sun
i'm a joker, i'm a smoker
i'm a midnight talker
i sure don't want to hurt no one
the joker is wild.... yeah baby
you know he got a lot of styles
and this ??? my fears
you know he gotta be freak of the week hahaha
the joker is wild
people keep talking about me like i'm alone live dog
they say i'm doing you wrong, doing you wrong
doing you wrong, doing you wrong
but don't you know, don't you worry
about a fame, pretty mama
because i'm right here, right here,
right here sing alone
cause i'm a picker, i'm grinner,
i'm a lover and i'm a sinner
i play my music in the sun
i'm a joker, i'm a smoker and.....
yeah, the joker's wild
i'm taking back my style
yeah, get off my cloud, baby
joker is wild
he is getting wild
and some people call me the gangster of love
yeah...
and some people walking around call me maurice
'cause i speak on the pompitice of love
people talk about me baby
they say i'm doing you wrong
doing you wrong, doing you wrong
well don't let that worry you baby
'cause i'm right here, right here,
right here, right here at home
everybody sing alone
'cause i'm a picker, i'm grinner,
i'm a lover and i'm a sinner
i play my music in the sun
i'm a joker, i'm a smoker
i'm a midnight toker
i get my lovin on the run
you're the cutest thang that i ever did see
i really love your peaches, i want to shake your tree
lovey dovey, lovey dovey
lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time
oh me babe, i'm gonna show you a good time, baby
'cause i'm a picker, i'm grinner,
i'm a lover and i'm a sinner
i play my music in the sun
i'm a joker, i'm a smoker
i'm a midnight talker
i sure don't want to hurt no one
the joker is wild.... yeah baby
you know he got a lot of styles
and this ??? my fears
you know he gotta be freak of the week hahaha
the joker is wild
people keep talking about me like i'm alone live dog
they say i'm doing you wrong, doing you wrong
doing you wrong, doing you wrong
but don't you know, don't you worry
about a fame, pretty mama
because i'm right here, right here,
right here sing alone
cause i'm a picker, i'm grinner,
i'm a lover and i'm a sinner
i play my music in the sun
i'm a joker, i'm a smoker and.....
yeah, the joker's wild
i'm taking back my style
yeah, get off my cloud, baby
joker is wild
he is getting wild
Lyrics submitted by BrazilianBoy
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