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"
Well it was Friday in the P.M.
And just like every weekend
I was ready to throw down
Yeah, I get a little tore up
So I call my bros up to meet me out on the town
Well, wild man Willy said I like to really
But Idol was on TV
And Ray had a date
With his wife and Nate quit drinking
But he didn't tell me
Am I the only one who wants to have fun tonight?
Is there anybody out there, wants to have a cold beer
Kick it 'till the morning light
If I have to raise hell all by myself
I will but y'all, that ain't right
Yeah, it's time to get it on
Am I the only one who wants to have fun tonight?
Well, I was flying solo down at Silverado's
The joint looking like a morgue
When this country cutie with a rock and roll booty
Came strutting in through the door
Yelled who wants to dance and fired up the band
With with a Franklin and a shot of patron
She looked right at me
Said, "What's it gonna be?
Are you gonna let me to party alone?"
Am I the only one who wants to have fun tonight?
Is there anybody out there, wants to have a cold beer
Kick it 'till the morning light
If I have to raise hell all by myself
I will but y'all, that ain't right
Yeah, it's time to get it on
Am I the only one who wants to have fun tonight?
Come on
Am I the only one who wants to have fun tonight?
Is there anybody out there who wants to have a cold beer
Kick it 'till the morning light
If I have to raise hell all by myself
I will but y'all, that ain't right
Yeah, It's time to get it on
Am I the only one who wants to have fun tonight?
Yeah, come on, come on
Get your good time on
Let's have a little fun tonight
Let's have a little fun tonight
Come on, come on
Get your good time on
Come on, come on
Let's have a little fun tonight
Come on, come on
Get your good time on
Come on, come on
Ah, don't tell me I'm the only one
Come on, come on
Get your good time on (come on)
Come on, come on
Let's have a little fun tonight
Come on, come on
Get your good time on
Come on, come on
Come on, come on
Get your good time on
Come on, come on
And just like every weekend
I was ready to throw down
Yeah, I get a little tore up
So I call my bros up to meet me out on the town
Well, wild man Willy said I like to really
But Idol was on TV
And Ray had a date
With his wife and Nate quit drinking
But he didn't tell me
Am I the only one who wants to have fun tonight?
Is there anybody out there, wants to have a cold beer
Kick it 'till the morning light
If I have to raise hell all by myself
I will but y'all, that ain't right
Yeah, it's time to get it on
Am I the only one who wants to have fun tonight?
Well, I was flying solo down at Silverado's
The joint looking like a morgue
When this country cutie with a rock and roll booty
Came strutting in through the door
Yelled who wants to dance and fired up the band
With with a Franklin and a shot of patron
She looked right at me
Said, "What's it gonna be?
Are you gonna let me to party alone?"
Am I the only one who wants to have fun tonight?
Is there anybody out there, wants to have a cold beer
Kick it 'till the morning light
If I have to raise hell all by myself
I will but y'all, that ain't right
Yeah, it's time to get it on
Am I the only one who wants to have fun tonight?
Come on
Am I the only one who wants to have fun tonight?
Is there anybody out there who wants to have a cold beer
Kick it 'till the morning light
If I have to raise hell all by myself
I will but y'all, that ain't right
Yeah, It's time to get it on
Am I the only one who wants to have fun tonight?
Yeah, come on, come on
Get your good time on
Let's have a little fun tonight
Let's have a little fun tonight
Come on, come on
Get your good time on
Come on, come on
Let's have a little fun tonight
Come on, come on
Get your good time on
Come on, come on
Ah, don't tell me I'm the only one
Come on, come on
Get your good time on (come on)
Come on, come on
Let's have a little fun tonight
Come on, come on
Get your good time on
Come on, come on
Come on, come on
Get your good time on
Come on, come on
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Lyrically, this song drives me NUTS because of this line:
Well it was Friday in the P.M. and just like every weekend, I was ready to throw down. Yeah I get a little tore up, so I call my bros up to meet me out on town. Well Wild Man Willie said "I'd like to really" but Idol was on TV
Everyone who has ever watched "Idol" knows it has NEVER, EVER been on Friday night. Clearly Wild Man WIllie is not watching a taped version of the show. He is watching it live as the song indicates "Idol was on TV." However, since Idol was on TV it could not possibly be a Friday night as Bentley suggests in the opening of the song.
LOL