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"
I knew this dude
He was very cool
He used to rule
Until he went to school
Not a normal school
That breeds a fool
But the ones that teaches
Men aren't fit to rule
That's when he took his pearly crown
He raised it up and spun it 'round
And tossed into the deep blue underground
No longer lead by the ways of men
He looked for the kingdom deep within
That's when the drums in his head began to pound
Don't let nobody bring you down
Accurate knowledge of Christ and the Father
Will bring the everlasting now
Join the party, make a sound
Share the truth, preach the good news
Don't let nobody bring you down
The everlasting now
Now turn the page, at an early age
This brother on stage, he was all the rage
He taught an integrated world to sing
The color you are don't mean a thing
Everybody's a star all the everyday people sang
He changed the funk, put it in a bag
Then he changed the colors of the flag
But you can't teach a dog new tricks if his tail don't wag
Don't know matter how much money you made
All the cars you got and all the women you laid
Mess with the flag and to them you're still a spade
Don't let nobody bring you down
Accurate knowledge of Christ and the Father
Will bring the everlasting now
Join the party, make a sound
Share the truth, preach the good news
Don't let nobody bring you down
The everlasting now
See this girl in her make-believe world
Plastic boobs and clip-on curls
Round the pole see her big butt twirl
There are the dreams that do unfurl
Never everlasting
Don't let anybody bring you down
The everlasting now
Watch that girl in her make-believe world
Plastic boobs and clip-on curls
Round the pole see her big butt twirl
Electric beaches skin do bake
Vanilla fudge and wedding cake
If you should die before you wake
You got any last requests to make?
The everlasting now
The everlasting now
The everlasting now
Johnny, B. Well and bring the beat
From this day forward 'til times indefinite,
Those who love Christ are the
Ones who benefit.
All the players' ice melted into one platinum chain and in
A downward spiral it dropped down the chain.
"You know, this is funky but I wish he'd play like he used to, old scragglyhead."
Don't let nobody bring you down
Accurate knowledge of Christ and the Father
Will bring the everlasting now
Join the party, come on make a sound
Share the truth, preach the good news
Don't let nobody bring you down
The everlasting now
The everlasting now
The everlasting now
The everlasting now
Now, now, now
The everlasting now
He was very cool
He used to rule
Until he went to school
Not a normal school
That breeds a fool
But the ones that teaches
Men aren't fit to rule
That's when he took his pearly crown
He raised it up and spun it 'round
And tossed into the deep blue underground
No longer lead by the ways of men
He looked for the kingdom deep within
That's when the drums in his head began to pound
Don't let nobody bring you down
Accurate knowledge of Christ and the Father
Will bring the everlasting now
Join the party, make a sound
Share the truth, preach the good news
Don't let nobody bring you down
The everlasting now
Now turn the page, at an early age
This brother on stage, he was all the rage
He taught an integrated world to sing
The color you are don't mean a thing
Everybody's a star all the everyday people sang
He changed the funk, put it in a bag
Then he changed the colors of the flag
But you can't teach a dog new tricks if his tail don't wag
Don't know matter how much money you made
All the cars you got and all the women you laid
Mess with the flag and to them you're still a spade
Don't let nobody bring you down
Accurate knowledge of Christ and the Father
Will bring the everlasting now
Join the party, make a sound
Share the truth, preach the good news
Don't let nobody bring you down
The everlasting now
See this girl in her make-believe world
Plastic boobs and clip-on curls
Round the pole see her big butt twirl
There are the dreams that do unfurl
Never everlasting
Don't let anybody bring you down
The everlasting now
Watch that girl in her make-believe world
Plastic boobs and clip-on curls
Round the pole see her big butt twirl
Electric beaches skin do bake
Vanilla fudge and wedding cake
If you should die before you wake
You got any last requests to make?
The everlasting now
The everlasting now
The everlasting now
Johnny, B. Well and bring the beat
From this day forward 'til times indefinite,
Those who love Christ are the
Ones who benefit.
All the players' ice melted into one platinum chain and in
A downward spiral it dropped down the chain.
"You know, this is funky but I wish he'd play like he used to, old scragglyhead."
Don't let nobody bring you down
Accurate knowledge of Christ and the Father
Will bring the everlasting now
Join the party, come on make a sound
Share the truth, preach the good news
Don't let nobody bring you down
The everlasting now
The everlasting now
The everlasting now
The everlasting now
Now, now, now
The everlasting now
Lyrics submitted by Gothy_Bura
The Everlasting Now Lyrics as written by Prince Rogers Nelson
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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