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"
Ba-oom bop, ba-oom bop
Ba-oom bop, ba-oom bop
Some men choose to be police,
Others work in factories
Some men work as waiters,
Giving service with a smile
Some guys have less common jobs;
Ice cream tasters, guys in the mob
But there was only one man on this rock
Whose job was hunting crocodiles
Now there was only one John Lennon
And there was only one Marc Bolan
And there's only one Steve Irwin
At least 'till yesterday...
Steve was swimming in Australia
Making a documentary
When a stingray got a little scared
Who wasn't used to strangers in the sea
He shot Steve's heart with poison barbs
The hunter's eyes then lost their shine
And even though his heart don't work
There will always be some room for him in mine.
Now there was only one John Lennon
And there was only one Marc Bolan
And there's only one Steve Irwin
At least 'till yesterday
And we still have got Bob Dylan
I hope the scared stingrays don't kill him
'Cause he's the last living legend
With 3 syllables and an "n" at the end
With 3 syllables and an "n" at the end of his name
Oh, it was terribly ironic
The way you had to die
You taught us about conservationalism
And how to keep endangered animals alive
Crikey man, the world is gonna miss you...
There was only one John Lennon
And there was only one Marc Bolan
And there's only one Steve Irwin
At least 'till yesterday...
Ba-oom bop, ba-oom bop
Ba-oom bop, ba-oom bop
Ba-oom bop, ba-oom bop
Some men choose to be police,
Others work in factories
Some men work as waiters,
Giving service with a smile
Some guys have less common jobs;
Ice cream tasters, guys in the mob
But there was only one man on this rock
Whose job was hunting crocodiles
Now there was only one John Lennon
And there was only one Marc Bolan
And there's only one Steve Irwin
At least 'till yesterday...
Steve was swimming in Australia
Making a documentary
When a stingray got a little scared
Who wasn't used to strangers in the sea
He shot Steve's heart with poison barbs
The hunter's eyes then lost their shine
And even though his heart don't work
There will always be some room for him in mine.
Now there was only one John Lennon
And there was only one Marc Bolan
And there's only one Steve Irwin
At least 'till yesterday
And we still have got Bob Dylan
I hope the scared stingrays don't kill him
'Cause he's the last living legend
With 3 syllables and an "n" at the end
With 3 syllables and an "n" at the end of his name
Oh, it was terribly ironic
The way you had to die
You taught us about conservationalism
And how to keep endangered animals alive
Crikey man, the world is gonna miss you...
There was only one John Lennon
And there was only one Marc Bolan
And there's only one Steve Irwin
At least 'till yesterday...
Ba-oom bop, ba-oom bop
Ba-oom bop, ba-oom bop
Lyrics submitted by post.paint.girl
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