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"
Sunday mornin', here we are
The boy's come home
Not quite the movie star
he's been in Hollywood
The boy's come home
The boy's done good
He says she asked too high a price
Neglecting to declare
What sits between them there on ice
Chilled with the fizzy and the still
He tried but didn't make it there
It's not for me
It's not for me
He says she asked too high a price
Neglecting to declare
What sits between them there on ice
Chilled with the fizzy and the still
He tried but didn't make it there
It's not for me
Not for me
Sunday papers, here we are
The boy's come home
The boy's come home
The boy's come home
Not quite the movie star
he's been in Hollywood
The boy's come home
The boy's done good
He says she asked too high a price
Neglecting to declare
What sits between them there on ice
Chilled with the fizzy and the still
He tried but didn't make it there
It's not for me
It's not for me
He says she asked too high a price
Neglecting to declare
What sits between them there on ice
Chilled with the fizzy and the still
He tried but didn't make it there
It's not for me
Not for me
Sunday papers, here we are
The boy's come home
The boy's come home
Lyrics submitted by bars.of.a.rhyme
The Fizzy and the Still Lyrics as written by Mark Knopfler
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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