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"
We had three days off from 26 shows and we didn't know what to do
Harvey went to London, and Lex went with him too
We drove up to Scotland to find some lochs and clans
And Doctor went to Germany to have sex with men
The Doctor went to Germany to have sex with men!
Chris Moses had an uncle that we didn't know much about
He had 16 different relatives and couldn't work it out
They took us in, gave us food and beer, and showed us where to sleep
Despite the close-knit community no one had webbed feet
Despite the close-knit community no one had webbed feet
We're so far from Sydney and Melbourne as well
But if we have to be somewhere it might as well be Dunkeld
If we have to be somewhere it might as well be Dunkeld
Gordy was in boozy heaven he drank all he could find
Mostly hash in Copenhagen he nearly lost his mind
Poor Luke fell in love with a prostitute he said the price was fair,
She loved his leather jacket and his thick body hair
She loved his leather jacket and his thick body hair
We're so far from Sydney and Melbourne as well
But if we have to be somewhere it might as well be Dunkeld
If we have to be somewhere it might as well be Dunkeld
We're so far from Sydney and Melbourne as well
If we have to be somewhere it might as well be Dunkeld
If we have to be somewhere it might as well be Dunkeld
If we have to be somewhere it might as well be Dunkeld
If we have to be somewhere it might as well be Dunkeld
If we have to be somewhere it might as well be Dunkeld
Harvey went to London, and Lex went with him too
We drove up to Scotland to find some lochs and clans
And Doctor went to Germany to have sex with men
The Doctor went to Germany to have sex with men!
Chris Moses had an uncle that we didn't know much about
He had 16 different relatives and couldn't work it out
They took us in, gave us food and beer, and showed us where to sleep
Despite the close-knit community no one had webbed feet
Despite the close-knit community no one had webbed feet
We're so far from Sydney and Melbourne as well
But if we have to be somewhere it might as well be Dunkeld
If we have to be somewhere it might as well be Dunkeld
Gordy was in boozy heaven he drank all he could find
Mostly hash in Copenhagen he nearly lost his mind
Poor Luke fell in love with a prostitute he said the price was fair,
She loved his leather jacket and his thick body hair
She loved his leather jacket and his thick body hair
We're so far from Sydney and Melbourne as well
But if we have to be somewhere it might as well be Dunkeld
If we have to be somewhere it might as well be Dunkeld
We're so far from Sydney and Melbourne as well
If we have to be somewhere it might as well be Dunkeld
If we have to be somewhere it might as well be Dunkeld
If we have to be somewhere it might as well be Dunkeld
If we have to be somewhere it might as well be Dunkeld
If we have to be somewhere it might as well be Dunkeld
Lyrics submitted by allrealityisvirtual
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