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"
Mmmmm,
Ohhh,...
Let me tell ya now
This field ain't ever been plowed
But that don't mean it can't
It just ain't happened yet
But baby, you
Seem ta see past the weeds
So before ya take a chance on me
Let me warn ya what your gonna get...
It's gunna be a hard road
But it'll be worth it
Cuz I know
Underneath tha surface
What's waitin' if ya dig a little deeper down
Keep doin' what your doin'
Patiently
Cuz nothin' worth growin comes easily
Lovin me's gunna be like workin' unbroken ground
I guess you could say
That I've been tha one ta blame
Cuz I'm the one who built this fence
Keepin' people outta my heart
Baaaby, you
Somehow got ta me
Ya found a way ta plant a seed
So let me say before ya go too far...
That it's gunna be a hard road
But it'll be worth it
Cuz I know
Underneath tha surface
What's waitin' if ya dig a little deeper down
So keep doin' what your doin'
Patiently
Cuz nothin' worth growin comes easily
Lovin me's gunna be like workin' unbroken ground
....
Ohhh, it's gunna be a hard road
But it'll be worth it
Cuz I know
Underneath tha surface
What's waitin if ya dig a little deeper down
Keeep doin' what your doin'
Patiently
Cuz nothin worth growin comes easily
Lovin me's gunna be like workin' unbroken ground
Ooooo,
Lovin me's gunna be like workin' unbroken ground
Mmmm,
La, la, lala laaaa...
Ooooo,
Keep doin' what your doin
Ooooo, baby
Workin' unbroken grooound
Workin' unbroken grooound
Ooooo, baby
Workin' unbroken grooound
Ohhh,...
Let me tell ya now
This field ain't ever been plowed
But that don't mean it can't
It just ain't happened yet
But baby, you
Seem ta see past the weeds
So before ya take a chance on me
Let me warn ya what your gonna get...
It's gunna be a hard road
But it'll be worth it
Cuz I know
Underneath tha surface
What's waitin' if ya dig a little deeper down
Keep doin' what your doin'
Patiently
Cuz nothin' worth growin comes easily
Lovin me's gunna be like workin' unbroken ground
I guess you could say
That I've been tha one ta blame
Cuz I'm the one who built this fence
Keepin' people outta my heart
Baaaby, you
Somehow got ta me
Ya found a way ta plant a seed
So let me say before ya go too far...
That it's gunna be a hard road
But it'll be worth it
Cuz I know
Underneath tha surface
What's waitin' if ya dig a little deeper down
So keep doin' what your doin'
Patiently
Cuz nothin' worth growin comes easily
Lovin me's gunna be like workin' unbroken ground
....
Ohhh, it's gunna be a hard road
But it'll be worth it
Cuz I know
Underneath tha surface
What's waitin if ya dig a little deeper down
Keeep doin' what your doin'
Patiently
Cuz nothin worth growin comes easily
Lovin me's gunna be like workin' unbroken ground
Ooooo,
Lovin me's gunna be like workin' unbroken ground
Mmmm,
La, la, lala laaaa...
Ooooo,
Keep doin' what your doin
Ooooo, baby
Workin' unbroken grooound
Workin' unbroken grooound
Ooooo, baby
Workin' unbroken grooound
Lyrics submitted by ThatGuitarGuy
Unbroken Ground Lyrics as written by James Leblanc Gary Nichols
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Spirit Music Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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