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 was born in a hospital
that was very big and white
The hands of a male doctor
pulled me into the light
My grandmother cut
the umbilical cord
and I took my first breath
in a maternity ward
They gave me food and shelter.
they gave me clothes and things
I was allowed to go to school
and I was encouraged to sing
I was healthy,
I was a privileged soul
and I am lucky today,
and thankful on the whole
I am called Scorpio,
if they got the date right
I cannot transcend this caste
even if I tried
I hope to kill
a great lion someday
and I will because with
work ethic I was raised
Fire, Water, Earth, Wind have gone
to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
Elements are assigned.
Stars given names.
Baseball on T.V., pictures in frames
I am still hunting
for the hide of such sheen
My hair is still curly
and my eyes are still green
Stick a needle in my eye
I'm middle class 'til the day I die
that was very big and white
The hands of a male doctor
pulled me into the light
My grandmother cut
the umbilical cord
and I took my first breath
in a maternity ward
They gave me food and shelter.
they gave me clothes and things
I was allowed to go to school
and I was encouraged to sing
I was healthy,
I was a privileged soul
and I am lucky today,
and thankful on the whole
I am called Scorpio,
if they got the date right
I cannot transcend this caste
even if I tried
I hope to kill
a great lion someday
and I will because with
work ethic I was raised
Fire, Water, Earth, Wind have gone
to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
Elements are assigned.
Stars given names.
Baseball on T.V., pictures in frames
I am still hunting
for the hide of such sheen
My hair is still curly
and my eyes are still green
Stick a needle in my eye
I'm middle class 'til the day I die
Lyrics submitted by RaineBM1185
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I know Cass must be somewhat of a Hank Williams fan since he referenced Lovesick Blues as a "foundational.... thing" in his Guitar Moves video. "My hair is still curly and my eyes are still green" is clearly a reference to "My hair is still curly and my eyes are still blue" from Why Don't You Love Me by Hank Williams. It seems to be the perfect example of how he references other artists and media but modifies it to make it his own.