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've been beaten, I've been bruised
I've been cheated, and I've been used
They said that I'm no good
Hearts stone cold, black and blue
Reminders of the shit they put me through
Lord, its getting old
Its time to show myself the door
There's no pretending anymore
No, it's over
Where I'm going I don't know
Somewhere down this dusty road
North on 441
Pass the rolling cattle fields the tailor parks, and rusted cotton mills
Lord get me out of here
I've made up my mind
Not giving in this time
No it's over
Heart break runaway
I'm on a fast ride toward the interstate
I'm leaving this place without a minute to waist
No looking over my shoulder
It's over
Been in prison locked and chained
Said you gotta trust and obey
But I'm busted loose I'm on the run
And I'm screamin' at the top of my lungs
Thank God I'm free at last
Feel like I've been reformed
There's no pretending anymore
No
Daddy's been drinking beer
Every night for 20 years
And mama just sits there on the couch
Poppin' pills to drowned her tears
And they keep doggin' me,
Saying your not worth a damn and your just gonna be another failure
Another jailbird like everyone in the family
So I hang out in the parking lot; I get stoned with my 2 friends
Cause they're the ones who understand the situation that I'm in
They feel my pain and man I'm gonna miss em when I'm gone
But I'm moving on, If I don't I'll be dead by 21
I'd shoot myself in the head before I wind up like my dad
Working a job I hate and taking out my anger on a kid
I can hear my mama crying as I cross that county line
Cause she knows I'm not looking back I'm leaving all this shit behind
I told her I'm a soldier I'm wiser, and I'm older
I got my education now I'm out of here it's over
And I'm heart break runaway
I'm on a fast ride toward the interstate
I'm leaving this place without a minute to waist
No looking over my shoulder
It's over
No goodbyes, now I'm gone
It's all over
It's over
No goodbyes, now I'm gone
It's all over
It's over
No goodbyes, now I'm gone
It's all over
It's over
I've been cheated, and I've been used
They said that I'm no good
Hearts stone cold, black and blue
Reminders of the shit they put me through
Lord, its getting old
Its time to show myself the door
There's no pretending anymore
No, it's over
Where I'm going I don't know
Somewhere down this dusty road
North on 441
Pass the rolling cattle fields the tailor parks, and rusted cotton mills
Lord get me out of here
I've made up my mind
Not giving in this time
No it's over
Heart break runaway
I'm on a fast ride toward the interstate
I'm leaving this place without a minute to waist
No looking over my shoulder
It's over
Been in prison locked and chained
Said you gotta trust and obey
But I'm busted loose I'm on the run
And I'm screamin' at the top of my lungs
Thank God I'm free at last
Feel like I've been reformed
There's no pretending anymore
No
Daddy's been drinking beer
Every night for 20 years
And mama just sits there on the couch
Poppin' pills to drowned her tears
And they keep doggin' me,
Saying your not worth a damn and your just gonna be another failure
Another jailbird like everyone in the family
So I hang out in the parking lot; I get stoned with my 2 friends
Cause they're the ones who understand the situation that I'm in
They feel my pain and man I'm gonna miss em when I'm gone
But I'm moving on, If I don't I'll be dead by 21
I'd shoot myself in the head before I wind up like my dad
Working a job I hate and taking out my anger on a kid
I can hear my mama crying as I cross that county line
Cause she knows I'm not looking back I'm leaving all this shit behind
I told her I'm a soldier I'm wiser, and I'm older
I got my education now I'm out of here it's over
And I'm heart break runaway
I'm on a fast ride toward the interstate
I'm leaving this place without a minute to waist
No looking over my shoulder
It's over
No goodbyes, now I'm gone
It's all over
It's over
No goodbyes, now I'm gone
It's all over
It's over
No goodbyes, now I'm gone
It's all over
It's over
Lyrics submitted by wakechique
It's Over Lyrics as written by Hermansen Eriksen
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, O/B/O DistroKid, Sentric Music, Songtrust Ave, PFIVE Entertainment Mexico
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