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 can be strong
We can be strong
Out on this lonely road
It's on the road to love
We can be strong
We can be strong
Follow that unicorn
On the road to love
Run, run with her t-
Run, run with her t-
Run, run with her t-
Run, run with her t-
Run, run with her t-
Run, run with her t-
Run, run with her t-
Run, run with, with, with
Run, run with her top down
Baby she flies
Run, run with the fury of a
Saint in her eyes
Run, run, cha, cha, cha
Baby she goes
With blond hair and a gun
Smoking under her toes
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ride, ride, pony, ride, ride
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ride, ride, pony, tonight
We can be strong
We can be strong
Out on this lonely road
On the road to love
We can be strong
We can be strong
Follow that unicorn
On the road to love
I'm on whoa, oh oh whoa
I'm on the road to love
I'm on whoa, oh oh whoa
I'm on the road to love
She's just an American
Riding a dream
When she's got a rainbow syrup
And her heart that she bleeds
They don't care if your papers
Or your love is the law
She's a, free soul, burning roads
With a flag in her bra
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ride, ride, pony, ride, ride
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ride, ride, pony, tonight
We can be strong
We can be strong
Out on this lonely road
On the road to love
We can be strong
We can be strong
Follow that unicorn
On the road to love
I'm on whoa, oh oh whoa
I'm on the road to love
I'm on whoa, oh oh whoa
I'm on the road to love
Get your hot rods ready to rumble
'Cause we're gonna fall in love tonight
Get your hot rods ready to rumble
Cause we're gonna drink until we die
Get your hot rods ready to rumble
'Cause we're gonna fall in love tonight
Get your hot rods ready to rumble
Cause we're gonna drink until we die
Die
We can be strong
Out on this lonely road
It's on the road to love
We can be strong
We can be strong
Follow that unicorn
On the road to love
Run, run with her t-
Run, run with her t-
Run, run with her t-
Run, run with her t-
Run, run with her t-
Run, run with her t-
Run, run with her t-
Run, run with, with, with
Run, run with her top down
Baby she flies
Run, run with the fury of a
Saint in her eyes
Run, run, cha, cha, cha
Baby she goes
With blond hair and a gun
Smoking under her toes
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ride, ride, pony, ride, ride
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ride, ride, pony, tonight
We can be strong
We can be strong
Out on this lonely road
On the road to love
We can be strong
We can be strong
Follow that unicorn
On the road to love
I'm on whoa, oh oh whoa
I'm on the road to love
I'm on whoa, oh oh whoa
I'm on the road to love
She's just an American
Riding a dream
When she's got a rainbow syrup
And her heart that she bleeds
They don't care if your papers
Or your love is the law
She's a, free soul, burning roads
With a flag in her bra
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ride, ride, pony, ride, ride
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ride, ride, pony, tonight
We can be strong
We can be strong
Out on this lonely road
On the road to love
We can be strong
We can be strong
Follow that unicorn
On the road to love
I'm on whoa, oh oh whoa
I'm on the road to love
I'm on whoa, oh oh whoa
I'm on the road to love
Get your hot rods ready to rumble
'Cause we're gonna fall in love tonight
Get your hot rods ready to rumble
Cause we're gonna drink until we die
Get your hot rods ready to rumble
'Cause we're gonna fall in love tonight
Get your hot rods ready to rumble
Cause we're gonna drink until we die
Die
Lyrics submitted by hundredskies
Highway Unicorn (Road To Love) Lyrics as written by Brian Dong Ho Lee Fernando Garibay
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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