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"
Can't see forty-two, just 'bout t'go insane
I've been down before
Ridin' along in this big jet plane
I've been thinkin' about jumpin' out the door
'Cause my home land is so far away
And I feel like it's all been done
Somebody's tryin' to make me stay
And I've got to be on the run
Oh big ol' jet airliner
Don't carry me too far away
Oh big ol' jet airliner
'Cause it's here that I've got to stay
I've been sitting by the fireside
Wonderin' where my strength is goin'
Looking through the mirror of life,
Tryin' to find out which way the wind is blowin'
But my heart keeps pushing me backwards
As I jump aboard that 747
Riding high, but with a tear in my eye
You got to go through hell before you get to heaven
Woah, big ol' jet airliner
Don't carry me too far away
Oh big ol' jet airliner
'Cause it's here that I've got to stay
Oh I know I will
I'm gonna leave on my own this time
Oh, yeah, yeah
Big ol' jet airliner
Don't carry me too far away
Big ol' jet airliner
Here that I've got to stay
Goodbye to all my friends at home
Goodbye to people I've trusted
I've got to go out and make my way
I might get rich you know I might get busted
But my heart keeps calling me backwards
As I get on the 707
Ridin' high I got tears in my eyes
You know you got to go through hell
Before you get to heaven
Big ol' jet airliner
Don't carry me too far away
Oh, Oh big ol' jet airliner
Cause it's here that I've got to stay
Touchin' down in New England
Feel the heat comin' down
First thought is "Lord, I said I'd be there"
But I couldn't seem to quite get it down
'Cause I'm goin' with some hesitation
I've got to go and make my way
But there's so many people, Lord, to talk to
And a whole lotta debts to pay
Oh, big ol' jet airliner
Don't carry me too far away
Oh big ol' jet airliner
'Cause it's here that I've got to stay
Goodbye to old friends at home
Goodbye to willing friends I've trusted
I've got to go out and make my way
I might get rich and I might get busted
But I'm going, Lord, with so many things to clean up
I've got to make my way clear before me
But I don't want to get mixed up
In any of that funky shit that goin' down before me
Oooh, big ol' jet airliner
Don't carry me too far away
Big ol' jet airliner
'Cause it's here that I've got to stay
('Cause it's California where I've got to stay (last time)
I've been down before
Ridin' along in this big jet plane
I've been thinkin' about jumpin' out the door
'Cause my home land is so far away
And I feel like it's all been done
Somebody's tryin' to make me stay
And I've got to be on the run
Oh big ol' jet airliner
Don't carry me too far away
Oh big ol' jet airliner
'Cause it's here that I've got to stay
I've been sitting by the fireside
Wonderin' where my strength is goin'
Looking through the mirror of life,
Tryin' to find out which way the wind is blowin'
But my heart keeps pushing me backwards
As I jump aboard that 747
Riding high, but with a tear in my eye
You got to go through hell before you get to heaven
Woah, big ol' jet airliner
Don't carry me too far away
Oh big ol' jet airliner
'Cause it's here that I've got to stay
Oh I know I will
I'm gonna leave on my own this time
Oh, yeah, yeah
Big ol' jet airliner
Don't carry me too far away
Big ol' jet airliner
Here that I've got to stay
Goodbye to all my friends at home
Goodbye to people I've trusted
I've got to go out and make my way
I might get rich you know I might get busted
But my heart keeps calling me backwards
As I get on the 707
Ridin' high I got tears in my eyes
You know you got to go through hell
Before you get to heaven
Big ol' jet airliner
Don't carry me too far away
Oh, Oh big ol' jet airliner
Cause it's here that I've got to stay
Touchin' down in New England
Feel the heat comin' down
First thought is "Lord, I said I'd be there"
But I couldn't seem to quite get it down
'Cause I'm goin' with some hesitation
I've got to go and make my way
But there's so many people, Lord, to talk to
And a whole lotta debts to pay
Oh, big ol' jet airliner
Don't carry me too far away
Oh big ol' jet airliner
'Cause it's here that I've got to stay
Goodbye to old friends at home
Goodbye to willing friends I've trusted
I've got to go out and make my way
I might get rich and I might get busted
But I'm going, Lord, with so many things to clean up
I've got to make my way clear before me
But I don't want to get mixed up
In any of that funky shit that goin' down before me
Oooh, big ol' jet airliner
Don't carry me too far away
Big ol' jet airliner
'Cause it's here that I've got to stay
('Cause it's California where I've got to stay (last time)
Lyrics submitted by SoulAsylum87
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