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 hear tell you're doin' well
Good thing have come to you
I wish I had your happiness
And you had a do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka-do
They tell me you're runnin' free
Your days are never blue
I wish I had your good-luck charm
And you had a do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka-do
Yeah, I see you're goin' down the street in your big Cadillac
You got girls in the front, you got girls in the back
Yeah, way in back, you got money in a sack
Both hands on the wheel and your shoulders rared back
Root-doot-doot-doot-doot, do-wah
I hear tell you're doin' well
Good things have come to you
I wish I had your happiness
And you had a do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka-do
Yeah, I see you're goin' down the street in your big Cadillac
You got girls in the front, you got girls in the back
Yeah, way in back, you got money in a sack
Both hands on the wheel and your shoulders rared back
Root-doot-doot-doot-doot, do-wah
I hear tell you're doin' well
Good things have come to you
I wish I had your good-luck charm
And you had a do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka-do
Good thing have come to you
I wish I had your happiness
And you had a do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka-do
They tell me you're runnin' free
Your days are never blue
I wish I had your good-luck charm
And you had a do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka-do
Yeah, I see you're goin' down the street in your big Cadillac
You got girls in the front, you got girls in the back
Yeah, way in back, you got money in a sack
Both hands on the wheel and your shoulders rared back
Root-doot-doot-doot-doot, do-wah
I hear tell you're doin' well
Good things have come to you
I wish I had your happiness
And you had a do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka-do
Yeah, I see you're goin' down the street in your big Cadillac
You got girls in the front, you got girls in the back
Yeah, way in back, you got money in a sack
Both hands on the wheel and your shoulders rared back
Root-doot-doot-doot-doot, do-wah
I hear tell you're doin' well
Good things have come to you
I wish I had your good-luck charm
And you had a do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka-do
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Was wondering what the meaning of this song was at work this week. I was fixated on “I hear tell you’re doing well, good things have come to you.” And “they tell me you’re running free” But far more importantly the part “You got girls in the front, you got girls in the back, yeah way in the back, you got money in the sack, both hands on the wheel and your shoulders rared back.”
What did he mean by “way in the back”? And the “Money in the sack” that followed? Is this song about a bank robbery!? “Way in the back” = vault? “Do-wacka-do” = wack a bank?
Pretty out there theory, I know.
@kevin10383 The song is from the perspective of a man who is jealous of another man because he has so many great things going for him. "I wish I had your happiness; I wish I had your good-luck charm"<br /> <br /> "I hear tell you're doing well, good things have come to you" - the narrator has heard about all these good things that are happening to the other guy.<br /> <br /> "They tell me you're running free" - I take this as the guy doesn't have a care in the world and is free to do whatever he wants because of his success.<br /> <br /> “You got girls in the front, you got girls in the back, yeah way in the back, you got money in the sack, both hands on the wheel and your shoulders rared back.” - Just another line about how rich and successful the man is. He's driving a Cadillac, he's got the attention of all the girls, etc. I think "money in the sack" is just a bit of hyperbole.<br /> <br /> As far as what "Do-wacka-do" means, I think only Roger will ever know that. I take it as a way to wish bad things would start happening to the man without saying what those things are. Roger was famous for nonsense words and improvisation, I wouldn't be surprised if "Do-wacka-do" just sort of came about in the songwriting process.