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"
Tommy Still drives that ol' pickup truck
He had back in high school
He says he won't trade it in
'Cause they don't make 'em like they used to
His wife Donna's got a picture of Elvis
By the clock in the kitchen
Her hair and Clothes come back in style
Ever now and then
They made a promise on their wedding day
Nothin's gonna take this feeling away
Let the world turn
Let the years drift by
The fire will burn
In their hearts just as bright
Time may take it's toll
But their love won't grow old
And if they live to be a hundred and one
They're still gonna die young
Tommy spent years fixin' wheels and brakes
at the texaco on the highway
Donna kept the kids and did Permanent waves
At the beauty shop on fridays
It's been forty years but who'd ever know
By the way they carry on
Just the same two kids as much in love
as the day they married on
They made a promise on there wedding day
Nothings gonna take this feeling away
Let the world turn
Let the years drift by
The fire will burn
In their hearts just as bright
Time may take it's toll
But their love won't grow old
And if they live to be a hundred and one
They're still gonna die young
Gonna die young
Let the world turn
Let the years drift by
The fire will burn
In their hearts just as bright
Time may take it's toll
But their love won't grow old
And if they live to be a hundred and one
They're still gonna die young
Let the world turn
Let the years drift by
The fire will burn
In their hearts just as bright
Time may take it's toll
But their love won't grow old
And if they live to be a hundred and one
They're still gonna die young
Let the world turn
Let the years drift by
The fire will burn
In their hearts just as bright
Time may take it's toll
But their love won't grow old
And if they live to be a hundred and one
They're still gonna die young
They're still gonna die young
He had back in high school
He says he won't trade it in
'Cause they don't make 'em like they used to
His wife Donna's got a picture of Elvis
By the clock in the kitchen
Her hair and Clothes come back in style
Ever now and then
They made a promise on their wedding day
Nothin's gonna take this feeling away
Let the world turn
Let the years drift by
The fire will burn
In their hearts just as bright
Time may take it's toll
But their love won't grow old
And if they live to be a hundred and one
They're still gonna die young
Tommy spent years fixin' wheels and brakes
at the texaco on the highway
Donna kept the kids and did Permanent waves
At the beauty shop on fridays
It's been forty years but who'd ever know
By the way they carry on
Just the same two kids as much in love
as the day they married on
They made a promise on there wedding day
Nothings gonna take this feeling away
Let the world turn
Let the years drift by
The fire will burn
In their hearts just as bright
Time may take it's toll
But their love won't grow old
And if they live to be a hundred and one
They're still gonna die young
Gonna die young
Let the world turn
Let the years drift by
The fire will burn
In their hearts just as bright
Time may take it's toll
But their love won't grow old
And if they live to be a hundred and one
They're still gonna die young
Let the world turn
Let the years drift by
The fire will burn
In their hearts just as bright
Time may take it's toll
But their love won't grow old
And if they live to be a hundred and one
They're still gonna die young
Let the world turn
Let the years drift by
The fire will burn
In their hearts just as bright
Time may take it's toll
But their love won't grow old
And if they live to be a hundred and one
They're still gonna die young
They're still gonna die young
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