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"
I wake up in the early when I see my day walk in
I wake up in the early when I start to begin
I drink up my coffee to drive dreams away
And I think about leaving but remain for the day
Oh, glory but I just stay blind
Think about my loving, yes, some of the time
I want to take it easy
Ain't it hard like they say
But I can play
And most any morning, most any morning
I like to be born into my guitar day
They say it's all butterflies
Don't let your dreams get in your eyes
But Orpheus made the sunrise
'Cause he knew how to play
Well, she sings so fadey, I called my guitar lady
She's a noted writer, I just can't seem to let her be
And she is my flower, I call her my easy hour
She's a low special, and baby that's enough for me
I got sorrow spells, I got sorrow spells
She showed up low to the blues away
And it's raining in the ocean, raining in the ocean
And stones on the mountain and just like they say
I'm just the string striker, just the lamplighter
I ain't no price fighter, it's easy to play
Well, she sings like the seashore
Tonight I don't ride on your seesaw
I will call up the angels if they have a little word to say
And I think I'll try cloud walking
It's just my face you see here talking
And it's just the guitar singing
And I have to let her have her way
And it's all right, you're in the graveyard now
And it's all right, you're in the graveyard now
You may weep, you may moan
You may pass your life so gay
But lucky in life, I swear sometimes
Surely going to have to meet your leaving day
Well, she sings like the seashore
Tonight I don't ride on your seesaw
I will call up the angels if they have a little word to say
And I think I'll try cloud walking
It's just my face you see here talking
And it's just the guitar singing
And I have to let her have her way
I wake up in the early when I start to begin
I drink up my coffee to drive dreams away
And I think about leaving but remain for the day
Oh, glory but I just stay blind
Think about my loving, yes, some of the time
I want to take it easy
Ain't it hard like they say
But I can play
And most any morning, most any morning
I like to be born into my guitar day
They say it's all butterflies
Don't let your dreams get in your eyes
But Orpheus made the sunrise
'Cause he knew how to play
Well, she sings so fadey, I called my guitar lady
She's a noted writer, I just can't seem to let her be
And she is my flower, I call her my easy hour
She's a low special, and baby that's enough for me
I got sorrow spells, I got sorrow spells
She showed up low to the blues away
And it's raining in the ocean, raining in the ocean
And stones on the mountain and just like they say
I'm just the string striker, just the lamplighter
I ain't no price fighter, it's easy to play
Well, she sings like the seashore
Tonight I don't ride on your seesaw
I will call up the angels if they have a little word to say
And I think I'll try cloud walking
It's just my face you see here talking
And it's just the guitar singing
And I have to let her have her way
And it's all right, you're in the graveyard now
And it's all right, you're in the graveyard now
You may weep, you may moan
You may pass your life so gay
But lucky in life, I swear sometimes
Surely going to have to meet your leaving day
Well, she sings like the seashore
Tonight I don't ride on your seesaw
I will call up the angels if they have a little word to say
And I think I'll try cloud walking
It's just my face you see here talking
And it's just the guitar singing
And I have to let her have her way
Lyrics submitted by SirRaustusBear
Blues for the Muse Lyrics as written by Robin D.h. Williamson Robin Williamson
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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