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"
Come and bring a stereo
Come and bring a stereo
And lay out on my pillow
Down into a dream we go
Down into a dream we go
Never know where we go
Under the shade of a willow tree
Someone you woke was sleeping
The bed that we lay upon was chamomile
And it smells like bubblegum for real
Skunk and owl and doe gather on my radio
Oh
Then with the residence that split the earth
The skunk tried to call that a different hurt
And from the crevice a cuckoo clock emerged
And from a little bird then
He spread apart his beak and time began to speak
I give to you, one, two, three
Songs as old as me
Come and bring a stereo
Come and bring a stereo
And lay out on my pillow
Down into a dream we go
Down into a dream we go
Never know where we go
Climbing a statue that stands fifty feet
The cast of a woman that looks just like me
To find that my character was cast completely in
Cement from head to my feet
A bee flew from my nose
He said "Come and bring a stereo"
Oh
Down to my throat, right to my teeth
The bee turned the stereo to bombe-e
And he began buzzing a song in the key of B
And to all words of concrete
The last falling of my skin left me younger than I've ever been
I'll give to you, one, two, three
You've returned to me
In
My sweet little riddle
I love when you put the warm lookin' honey in my bowl
Give
Now don't you go and give
I'm gonna show you how I love my journey boy
Oh how I love my journey boy
And if you ever leave me baby, I'll be destroyed
Let's make a baby, journey boy
Around here this livin' room when I called you
Come and bring a stereo
Come and bring a stereo
And lay out on my pillow
Down into a dream we go
Down into a dream we go
Never know where we go
Once on the radio
A black party
The juice from the ghetto was fading
So we hijacked an electrical piracy
'Cause nobody had a better rig
And the gods of rock 'n' roll hypnotized my stereo
I'll give to you, one, two, three
Everyone come and see me
Come and bring a stereo
Come and bring a stereo
And lay out on my pillow
Down into a dream we go
Down into a dream we go
Never know where we go
x2
Come and bring a stereo
And lay out on my pillow
Down into a dream we go
Down into a dream we go
Never know where we go
Under the shade of a willow tree
Someone you woke was sleeping
The bed that we lay upon was chamomile
And it smells like bubblegum for real
Skunk and owl and doe gather on my radio
Oh
Then with the residence that split the earth
The skunk tried to call that a different hurt
And from the crevice a cuckoo clock emerged
And from a little bird then
He spread apart his beak and time began to speak
I give to you, one, two, three
Songs as old as me
Come and bring a stereo
Come and bring a stereo
And lay out on my pillow
Down into a dream we go
Down into a dream we go
Never know where we go
Climbing a statue that stands fifty feet
The cast of a woman that looks just like me
To find that my character was cast completely in
Cement from head to my feet
A bee flew from my nose
He said "Come and bring a stereo"
Oh
Down to my throat, right to my teeth
The bee turned the stereo to bombe-e
And he began buzzing a song in the key of B
And to all words of concrete
The last falling of my skin left me younger than I've ever been
I'll give to you, one, two, three
You've returned to me
In
My sweet little riddle
I love when you put the warm lookin' honey in my bowl
Give
Now don't you go and give
I'm gonna show you how I love my journey boy
Oh how I love my journey boy
And if you ever leave me baby, I'll be destroyed
Let's make a baby, journey boy
Around here this livin' room when I called you
Come and bring a stereo
Come and bring a stereo
And lay out on my pillow
Down into a dream we go
Down into a dream we go
Never know where we go
Once on the radio
A black party
The juice from the ghetto was fading
So we hijacked an electrical piracy
'Cause nobody had a better rig
And the gods of rock 'n' roll hypnotized my stereo
I'll give to you, one, two, three
Everyone come and see me
Come and bring a stereo
Come and bring a stereo
And lay out on my pillow
Down into a dream we go
Down into a dream we go
Never know where we go
x2
Lyrics submitted by avataraera
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