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"
Back home they're all circled 'round a Butterball turkey
While I bow my head over stale beef jerky
I munched on sweets, slaw, Boston baked beans
Found out milk duds will stick to your jeans
I'm all alone but I don't hold a grudge
Cuz I'm first in line for maplenut fudge
Pancakes, beer, poured on the griddle
Charlie Daniels in my head heatin' up the fiddle
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Only comes but once'd a year
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Better stock up on your beer
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Wipe the gravy off your face
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Pump seven please say grace
Traffic is heavy and my heart is too
Them rubbers in the glovebox will soon be used
I'm payin' for a lover and I know it's wrong
A one-legged whore who can't wear a thong
Her name is Tina and she's pregnant again
But with just one leg, she still looks thin
Next morning she claimed to find religion too
I said "I'm glad you found Jesus, but I've lost your shoe"
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Only comes but once'd a year
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Better stock up on your beer
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Wipe the gravy off your face
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Pump seven please say grace
Met a nice young gal
Was a daughter of the cook
Got engaged, but we're still allowed to look
Said "Put on some music if you'd like to dance"
She said "I was invited to the party in the pants"
We danced all night till her daddy walked in
Just rolled his eyes and said "There she goes again"
She took me out back and spread out a quilt
And said I just love a man who drives a Peterbilt
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Only comes but once'd a year
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Try the dark meat if you're queer
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Wipe the gravy off your face
Bring it home boys
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Pump seven please say grace
Goodnight
While I bow my head over stale beef jerky
I munched on sweets, slaw, Boston baked beans
Found out milk duds will stick to your jeans
I'm all alone but I don't hold a grudge
Cuz I'm first in line for maplenut fudge
Pancakes, beer, poured on the griddle
Charlie Daniels in my head heatin' up the fiddle
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Only comes but once'd a year
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Better stock up on your beer
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Wipe the gravy off your face
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Pump seven please say grace
Traffic is heavy and my heart is too
Them rubbers in the glovebox will soon be used
I'm payin' for a lover and I know it's wrong
A one-legged whore who can't wear a thong
Her name is Tina and she's pregnant again
But with just one leg, she still looks thin
Next morning she claimed to find religion too
I said "I'm glad you found Jesus, but I've lost your shoe"
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Only comes but once'd a year
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Better stock up on your beer
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Wipe the gravy off your face
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Pump seven please say grace
Met a nice young gal
Was a daughter of the cook
Got engaged, but we're still allowed to look
Said "Put on some music if you'd like to dance"
She said "I was invited to the party in the pants"
We danced all night till her daddy walked in
Just rolled his eyes and said "There she goes again"
She took me out back and spread out a quilt
And said I just love a man who drives a Peterbilt
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Only comes but once'd a year
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Try the dark meat if you're queer
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Wipe the gravy off your face
Bring it home boys
Truckstop Thanksgiving
Pump seven please say grace
Goodnight
Lyrics submitted by richie
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