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"
(Yeah,
One, two, yeah, one, two, three)
I woke up early this mornin'
An' I'm already runnin' late
There's a list of things long as my arm
I won't get dont today
Is it Tuesday? Is it Wednesday?
They're runnin' into each other
Somebody tell me, when is my day
Man, this life is sure bein' a mother
[Chorus]
So tomorrow I'm takin' me fishin'
Hang a sign on the door of my life
Tell the world that I've gone missin'
An' I won't be back for a while
I'm so tired of only wishin'
I could leave my troubles behind
I wanna be front porch rockin'
With a big sun droppin' in a blue sky
Kick back an' get high
On the livin' part of life
(Yeah, c'mon)
They say to keep your spot on the ladder
An' keep that money rollin' in
They say keepin' up with the feelies, boy
You can't back off one inch
But I been puttin' in my time
An' I've built up a pretty good deal
I'm gonna spend some, maybe waste some
Before my time comes an' I wind up dead
Yeah tomorrow I'm takin' me fishin'
Hang a sign on the door of my life
Tell the world that I've gone missin'
An' I won't be back for a while
I'm so tired of only wishin'
I could leave my troubles behind
I wanna be front porch rockin'
With a big sun droppin' in a blue sky
Kick back an' get high
On the livin' part of life
(Yeah)
When I get home tonight
I'll open the window an' let whatever roll in
An' if there's no breeze, that's cool with me
I'll just raise myself, an' wait on the wind, yeah
***Correction above *I'll just raise my sail, an' wait on the wind*
Yeah tomorrow I'm takin' me fishin'
Hang a sign on the door of my life
Tell the world that I've gone missin'
An' I won't be back for a while
I'm so tired of only wishin'
I could leave my troubles behind
I wanna be front porch rockin'
With a big sun droppin' in a blue sky
Kick back an' get high
Kick back an' get high
On the livin' part of life
(Yeah, bop, bop)
(Bop, Bop, Bop, Bop)
(Yeah)
(That one was right)
(That's cool)
One, two, yeah, one, two, three)
I woke up early this mornin'
An' I'm already runnin' late
There's a list of things long as my arm
I won't get dont today
Is it Tuesday? Is it Wednesday?
They're runnin' into each other
Somebody tell me, when is my day
Man, this life is sure bein' a mother
[Chorus]
So tomorrow I'm takin' me fishin'
Hang a sign on the door of my life
Tell the world that I've gone missin'
An' I won't be back for a while
I'm so tired of only wishin'
I could leave my troubles behind
I wanna be front porch rockin'
With a big sun droppin' in a blue sky
Kick back an' get high
On the livin' part of life
(Yeah, c'mon)
They say to keep your spot on the ladder
An' keep that money rollin' in
They say keepin' up with the feelies, boy
You can't back off one inch
But I been puttin' in my time
An' I've built up a pretty good deal
I'm gonna spend some, maybe waste some
Before my time comes an' I wind up dead
Yeah tomorrow I'm takin' me fishin'
Hang a sign on the door of my life
Tell the world that I've gone missin'
An' I won't be back for a while
I'm so tired of only wishin'
I could leave my troubles behind
I wanna be front porch rockin'
With a big sun droppin' in a blue sky
Kick back an' get high
On the livin' part of life
(Yeah)
When I get home tonight
I'll open the window an' let whatever roll in
An' if there's no breeze, that's cool with me
I'll just raise myself, an' wait on the wind, yeah
***Correction above *I'll just raise my sail, an' wait on the wind*
Yeah tomorrow I'm takin' me fishin'
Hang a sign on the door of my life
Tell the world that I've gone missin'
An' I won't be back for a while
I'm so tired of only wishin'
I could leave my troubles behind
I wanna be front porch rockin'
With a big sun droppin' in a blue sky
Kick back an' get high
Kick back an' get high
On the livin' part of life
(Yeah, bop, bop)
(Bop, Bop, Bop, Bop)
(Yeah)
(That one was right)
(That's cool)
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Livin' Part of Life Lyrics as written by Eric Church Walt Wilkins
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Anthem Entertainment, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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