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"
So you need me to say that I’m sorry
That someone undressed me as professed to me
In Spain with their eyes
Ba dum-bum ba da dum.
I’m sorry ’cause someone told me to watch
And I watched for it all over
Spain with my eyes.
Ba dum-bum ba da dum.
If I’m sorry, then so are you
Cause I, I go where you tell me to.
On horseshoes.
The Casanova ran
Toward the Eastern lands
His cock was in his hand
You got to ride away from him
You gotta ride away from him.
“But if you ride over there
they’ll put bows in your hair
they will stand back and
stare at you to Spain with their eyes.”
Ba dum-bum ba da dum.
It never occurred to me
It never occurred to me
It never occurred to me
That the men are called horsemen there
Oh, the men are called horsemen there
Oh, the men are called horsemen and
I’M NO HORSEMEN!
Oh, the men are called horsemen and
I’M NO HORSEMEN!
Oh, the men are called horsemen and
I’M NO HORSEMEN!
I’M NO HORSEMEN! And you are no angel…
I’m no horse and you are no angel.
If I was a horse I would
Rush like a leopard.
If I was a horse I would
Trample the shepherd down.
If I was a horse I’d have
Bricks in my mane.
If I was a horse I would throw up the reins.
If I was you
If I was a horse I would throw up the reins.
If I was you… Oh, oh oh oh oh oh.
If I was a horse I would throw up the reins.
If I was you… Oh, oh oh oh oh oh.
But I am no horse and you are no angel…
Oh, oh oh oh oh oh.
I said if I was a horse I would throw up the reins.
If I was you. Oh, oh oh oh oh oh.
Your hand’s on my neck
Your hand’s on my muscles
Your weight on my back
It keeps me from trouble
But oh, oh oh oh oh oh…
But such weights never did stay
In Madrid, did they…
Where someone says, “fuck me” someone else says, “ok.”
You gotta ride me to a pasture
on a ride to kiss all the wings.
Where someone says “fuck me” someone else says, “ok.”
That someone undressed me as professed to me
In Spain with their eyes
Ba dum-bum ba da dum.
I’m sorry ’cause someone told me to watch
And I watched for it all over
Spain with my eyes.
Ba dum-bum ba da dum.
If I’m sorry, then so are you
Cause I, I go where you tell me to.
On horseshoes.
The Casanova ran
Toward the Eastern lands
His cock was in his hand
You got to ride away from him
You gotta ride away from him.
“But if you ride over there
they’ll put bows in your hair
they will stand back and
stare at you to Spain with their eyes.”
Ba dum-bum ba da dum.
It never occurred to me
It never occurred to me
It never occurred to me
That the men are called horsemen there
Oh, the men are called horsemen there
Oh, the men are called horsemen and
I’M NO HORSEMEN!
Oh, the men are called horsemen and
I’M NO HORSEMEN!
Oh, the men are called horsemen and
I’M NO HORSEMEN!
I’M NO HORSEMEN! And you are no angel…
I’m no horse and you are no angel.
If I was a horse I would
Rush like a leopard.
If I was a horse I would
Trample the shepherd down.
If I was a horse I’d have
Bricks in my mane.
If I was a horse I would throw up the reins.
If I was you
If I was a horse I would throw up the reins.
If I was you… Oh, oh oh oh oh oh.
If I was a horse I would throw up the reins.
If I was you… Oh, oh oh oh oh oh.
But I am no horse and you are no angel…
Oh, oh oh oh oh oh.
I said if I was a horse I would throw up the reins.
If I was you. Oh, oh oh oh oh oh.
Your hand’s on my neck
Your hand’s on my muscles
Your weight on my back
It keeps me from trouble
But oh, oh oh oh oh oh…
But such weights never did stay
In Madrid, did they…
Where someone says, “fuck me” someone else says, “ok.”
You gotta ride me to a pasture
on a ride to kiss all the wings.
Where someone says “fuck me” someone else says, “ok.”
Lyrics submitted by Clap Your Hands, edited by smileyoureontv
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Softdelicious are you refering to the firt unitartian in philly. That was me who asked him lol i thought it had to do with men in spain having big dicks before i asked him.