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"
In the back seats of burned out cars
In the disenchantment lane
The ideal angels twist and turn
And ask forgiveness for future mistakes
But you and I, we've been through this
Maybe a hundred times before
Always hitchin' rides with strangers
That papa warned us about before
But you know the summer always brought in
That wild and reckless breeze
And in the backseats we just tried to find
Some room for our knees
And in the backseats we just tried to find some room to breathe
And in the backseats we just tried to find some room to breathe
And in the wild desert sun
We drove straight on through the night
We rode the fever out of Austin
Dreamed of California lights
Come July, we'll ride the Ferris wheel
Go 'round and 'round and 'round
And if you never let me go
Well, I will never let you down
And you know the summer always brought in
All those wild and reckless breezes
And in the backseats we just tried to find
Some room for our knees
And in the backseats we just tried to find some room to breathe
And in the backseats we just tried to find some room to breathe
And these cowboys all go crazy in the heat
Chasin' the lights and all the girls along the Santa Ana streets
They're just dyin' to meet
It meant nothin' to me
You know the summer always brought in
That wild and reckless breeze
And in the backseats we just tried to find
Some room for our knees
You know the summer always brought in
That wild and reckless breeze
And in the backseats we just tried to find
Some room for our knees
You know the summer always brought in
That wild and reckless breeze
And in the backseats we just tried to find
Some room for our knees, hey
In the disenchantment lane
The ideal angels twist and turn
And ask forgiveness for future mistakes
But you and I, we've been through this
Maybe a hundred times before
Always hitchin' rides with strangers
That papa warned us about before
But you know the summer always brought in
That wild and reckless breeze
And in the backseats we just tried to find
Some room for our knees
And in the backseats we just tried to find some room to breathe
And in the backseats we just tried to find some room to breathe
And in the wild desert sun
We drove straight on through the night
We rode the fever out of Austin
Dreamed of California lights
Come July, we'll ride the Ferris wheel
Go 'round and 'round and 'round
And if you never let me go
Well, I will never let you down
And you know the summer always brought in
All those wild and reckless breezes
And in the backseats we just tried to find
Some room for our knees
And in the backseats we just tried to find some room to breathe
And in the backseats we just tried to find some room to breathe
And these cowboys all go crazy in the heat
Chasin' the lights and all the girls along the Santa Ana streets
They're just dyin' to meet
It meant nothin' to me
You know the summer always brought in
That wild and reckless breeze
And in the backseats we just tried to find
Some room for our knees
You know the summer always brought in
That wild and reckless breeze
And in the backseats we just tried to find
Some room for our knees
You know the summer always brought in
That wild and reckless breeze
And in the backseats we just tried to find
Some room for our knees, hey
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