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 remember the day
I called mama on the telephone
I told her mama
I'm getting married
I could hear her voice on the other side
Of the telephone she was smiling
And she asked me a question
That I proudly answered
She said son
Did you take time to know her
I said mama
She is the best
But today it hurts me so
To go back to mama and say
Mama I'm getting divorced
Oh I'm getting divorced
This choice I made
Didn't work out the way I thought it would
This choice I made
l say
This choice I made
Didn't work out the way I thought it would
This choice l made
Mama said to me
It's not easy to understand it son
But I hope you'll make it
You'll be happy again
It's not easy to understand it son
But I hope you'll make it
You'll be happy again
It's not easy to understand it son
But I hope you'll make it
You'll be happy again
I remember in church
When the preacher man read the scriptures
You looked so beautiful
So beautiful and so innocent
I did not know that behind that beauty
Lies the true colors
That will destroy me in the near future
This choice I made
Didn't work out to be what I thought it would be
This choice I made
l say
This choice I made
Didn't work out the way I thought it would
Now I'm hurting
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
I remember when I held you by the hand
Preacher man read the scriptures
Putting words in your mouth
Maybe what the preacher man said
Was not something that was within you
Now I know what they mean when they say
Beautiful woman
Is another man's plaything
Oh Lord
I'm hurting now l say
This choice I made
Didn't work out the way I thought it would
This choice I made
This choice I made
Didn't work out the way I thought it would
Now I'm hurting
Mama said to me
It's not easy to understand it son
But I hope you'll make it
You'll be happy again (Mama said to me)
It's not easy to understand it son
But I hope you'll make it
You'll be happy again
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
I called mama on the telephone
I told her mama
I'm getting married
I could hear her voice on the other side
Of the telephone she was smiling
And she asked me a question
That I proudly answered
She said son
Did you take time to know her
I said mama
She is the best
But today it hurts me so
To go back to mama and say
Mama I'm getting divorced
Oh I'm getting divorced
This choice I made
Didn't work out the way I thought it would
This choice I made
l say
This choice I made
Didn't work out the way I thought it would
This choice l made
Mama said to me
It's not easy to understand it son
But I hope you'll make it
You'll be happy again
It's not easy to understand it son
But I hope you'll make it
You'll be happy again
It's not easy to understand it son
But I hope you'll make it
You'll be happy again
I remember in church
When the preacher man read the scriptures
You looked so beautiful
So beautiful and so innocent
I did not know that behind that beauty
Lies the true colors
That will destroy me in the near future
This choice I made
Didn't work out to be what I thought it would be
This choice I made
l say
This choice I made
Didn't work out the way I thought it would
Now I'm hurting
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
I remember when I held you by the hand
Preacher man read the scriptures
Putting words in your mouth
Maybe what the preacher man said
Was not something that was within you
Now I know what they mean when they say
Beautiful woman
Is another man's plaything
Oh Lord
I'm hurting now l say
This choice I made
Didn't work out the way I thought it would
This choice I made
This choice I made
Didn't work out the way I thought it would
Now I'm hurting
Mama said to me
It's not easy to understand it son
But I hope you'll make it
You'll be happy again (Mama said to me)
It's not easy to understand it son
But I hope you'll make it
You'll be happy again
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
Mama said to me
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