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"
Here with you, In Saint Lou
The Mississippi misunderstood in these times
Through these eyes
Cry while we're dyin' but still we are high
In this city so fair
Hope and despair
I don't know where to begin
Here with you, In Saint Lou
Magnetized by broken dreams
In sweet summer heat
On the back of the bus, fell in love with the beat
In this city so cold, secrets are told
Still I just keep growin old here with you, In Saint Lou, Insane Lou
Cause being without you was so easy in hindsight
But being without you is getting harder every night
Cause I'm on the search for something I may never receive
The unfortunate king
Here with you, In Saint Lou
That silvery twinkle on skyline of blue
And these scents fill the air
And maybe I shouldn't but somehow I care
For my city so strong, have all along
So I just keep rolling on here with you, in Saint Lou, Insane Lou
Cause being without you was so easy in hindsight
But being without you is getting harder every night
Cause I'm on the search for something I may never receive
The unfortunate king,
here with you...
Don't think that I dig this life baby!
Don't think that I dig this life at all!
Dont think that I dig this life baby!
Like a fool, your sleepin' all alone
Like a fool, I'm sleepin' all alone
Like a fool, we're sleepin' all alone
Cause being without you was so easy in hindsight
But being without you is getting harder every night
Cause im on the search for something I may never recieve
The unfortunate king
Here with you, in Saint Lou
People come and people go
But we stay the same
I hope the kids will stay insane
In this city I'll live, city I'll die
Watch as the world passes by
Here with you in Saint Lou, Insane Lou
The Mississippi misunderstood in these times
Through these eyes
Cry while we're dyin' but still we are high
In this city so fair
Hope and despair
I don't know where to begin
Here with you, In Saint Lou
Magnetized by broken dreams
In sweet summer heat
On the back of the bus, fell in love with the beat
In this city so cold, secrets are told
Still I just keep growin old here with you, In Saint Lou, Insane Lou
Cause being without you was so easy in hindsight
But being without you is getting harder every night
Cause I'm on the search for something I may never receive
The unfortunate king
Here with you, In Saint Lou
That silvery twinkle on skyline of blue
And these scents fill the air
And maybe I shouldn't but somehow I care
For my city so strong, have all along
So I just keep rolling on here with you, in Saint Lou, Insane Lou
Cause being without you was so easy in hindsight
But being without you is getting harder every night
Cause I'm on the search for something I may never receive
The unfortunate king,
here with you...
Don't think that I dig this life baby!
Don't think that I dig this life at all!
Dont think that I dig this life baby!
Like a fool, your sleepin' all alone
Like a fool, I'm sleepin' all alone
Like a fool, we're sleepin' all alone
Cause being without you was so easy in hindsight
But being without you is getting harder every night
Cause im on the search for something I may never recieve
The unfortunate king
Here with you, in Saint Lou
People come and people go
But we stay the same
I hope the kids will stay insane
In this city I'll live, city I'll die
Watch as the world passes by
Here with you in Saint Lou, Insane Lou
Lyrics submitted by meltdown28, edited by mmummumm
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