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"
Standing out on Main Street across from Mr. Blue's
My faded leather jacket, my weathered Brogan shoes
A chill north wind was blowin' but the spring was comin' on
As I wondered to myself just how long I had been gone
So I strolled across old Main Street, walked down a flight of stairs
Stepped into the hall and saw all my friends were there
The neon sign was flashing "Welcome, come on in!"
It feels so good,
I'm feelin' good again
My favorite band was playing
An Otis Redding song
When they sang the chorus everybody sang along
Dan and Margarita were swaying side by side
I heard they were divorcin' but I guess they let it slide
And I wished I had some money with which to buy a round
I wish I'd cashed my paycheck before I came to town
But I reached into my pocket,
Found three twenties and a ten
It feels so good,
I'm feelin' good again
There was Old Man Perkins a-sittin' on a stool
Watchin' Butch and Jimmy John talkin' loud and playin' pool
The boys from Silver City were standing by the fire
Singin' like they thought they were the Tabernacle choir
And I wanted you to see 'em all,
I wished that you were there
I looked across the room and saw you standin' on the stairs
And when I caught your eye I saw you break into a grin
It feels so good
Feelin' good again
I wanted you to see 'em all,
I wished that you were there
I looked across the room and saw you standin' on the stair
And when I caught your eye
I saw you break into a grin
It feels so good,
Feelin' good again
My faded leather jacket, my weathered Brogan shoes
A chill north wind was blowin' but the spring was comin' on
As I wondered to myself just how long I had been gone
So I strolled across old Main Street, walked down a flight of stairs
Stepped into the hall and saw all my friends were there
The neon sign was flashing "Welcome, come on in!"
It feels so good,
I'm feelin' good again
My favorite band was playing
An Otis Redding song
When they sang the chorus everybody sang along
Dan and Margarita were swaying side by side
I heard they were divorcin' but I guess they let it slide
And I wished I had some money with which to buy a round
I wish I'd cashed my paycheck before I came to town
But I reached into my pocket,
Found three twenties and a ten
It feels so good,
I'm feelin' good again
There was Old Man Perkins a-sittin' on a stool
Watchin' Butch and Jimmy John talkin' loud and playin' pool
The boys from Silver City were standing by the fire
Singin' like they thought they were the Tabernacle choir
And I wanted you to see 'em all,
I wished that you were there
I looked across the room and saw you standin' on the stairs
And when I caught your eye I saw you break into a grin
It feels so good
Feelin' good again
I wanted you to see 'em all,
I wished that you were there
I looked across the room and saw you standin' on the stair
And when I caught your eye
I saw you break into a grin
It feels so good,
Feelin' good again
Lyrics submitted by evanreyes, edited by Artemisia24
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