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 long distance directory assistance, area code 212
And say, hey, A&R, this is Mister Rhythm and Blues
You said, "Hello" and put me on hold
To say the least, the cat was cold
He said, "Don't call us, child, we'll call you"
I said, "You got my number?"
He said, "Yeah, I got it when you walked in the door"
Don't call us, we'll call you
Don't call us, we'll call you
(Oh yeah, he said wait a minute though, he said)
I got your name from a friend of a friend
Who said he used to work with you
You remember the all night creature from Stereo Ninety Two?
Yeah, I said, "Could you relate to our quarter track tape
You know the band performs in the nude"
He said, "Uh-huh, don't call us, child, we'll call you"
Woo
Well, listen, kid, you paid for the call
You ain't bad but we've heard it all before
And it sounds like John, Paul and George
Child, anyway
Anyway, we cut a hit and we toured a bit
With a song he said he couldn't use
And now he calls and begs and crawls
It's telephone déjà vu
We got percentage points and lousy joints
And all the glitter we can use, mama
So, ha, don't call us now, we'll call you
Woo
You may hear this one too before I said, you know
I said, listen, kid, you paid for the call
Hell, well you ain't bad but I've heard it all before, uh
Don't call us, we'll call you
Don't call us
Don't call us, we'll call you
Don't call us, we'll call you
And say, hey, A&R, this is Mister Rhythm and Blues
You said, "Hello" and put me on hold
To say the least, the cat was cold
He said, "Don't call us, child, we'll call you"
I said, "You got my number?"
He said, "Yeah, I got it when you walked in the door"
Don't call us, we'll call you
Don't call us, we'll call you
(Oh yeah, he said wait a minute though, he said)
I got your name from a friend of a friend
Who said he used to work with you
You remember the all night creature from Stereo Ninety Two?
Yeah, I said, "Could you relate to our quarter track tape
You know the band performs in the nude"
He said, "Uh-huh, don't call us, child, we'll call you"
Woo
Well, listen, kid, you paid for the call
You ain't bad but we've heard it all before
And it sounds like John, Paul and George
Child, anyway
Anyway, we cut a hit and we toured a bit
With a song he said he couldn't use
And now he calls and begs and crawls
It's telephone déjà vu
We got percentage points and lousy joints
And all the glitter we can use, mama
So, ha, don't call us now, we'll call you
Woo
You may hear this one too before I said, you know
I said, listen, kid, you paid for the call
Hell, well you ain't bad but I've heard it all before, uh
Don't call us, we'll call you
Don't call us
Don't call us, we'll call you
Don't call us, we'll call you
Lyrics submitted by peacewarrior21
Don't Call Us, We'll Call You Lyrics as written by John Carter Jerry Corbetta
Lyrics © Songtrust Ave, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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