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"
Gary tell me why the leaves on the trees
Are falling this early as the spring
Why the leaves on the trees that are falling on us
Are like the words to the song
I've lived my whole life to sing
If you swim too much you'll drown
If we sit here and drink enough beer
We'll be two inflatable dolls in a hooker's bad dream
When the storm reaches us we'll be two blind drunks
Who've absorbed through the skin
A whole lifetime of kerosene
If you drink too much you will dream
And the shame of my life is watching you
Gary, I think we've worn out our welcome
They're waiting for us to leave
Gary, they've got a new kind of person
A newer, stronger, cleaner breed
And I think I just came in my pants
Oh baby do you want to dance
Everything collapses here, slow motion
And the roots of the dance and the stain in my pants
Are beyond any small man's conception
If you drink too much you will drown
And the shame of my life is watching you drown
Are falling this early as the spring
Why the leaves on the trees that are falling on us
Are like the words to the song
I've lived my whole life to sing
If you swim too much you'll drown
If we sit here and drink enough beer
We'll be two inflatable dolls in a hooker's bad dream
When the storm reaches us we'll be two blind drunks
Who've absorbed through the skin
A whole lifetime of kerosene
If you drink too much you will dream
And the shame of my life is watching you
Gary, I think we've worn out our welcome
They're waiting for us to leave
Gary, they've got a new kind of person
A newer, stronger, cleaner breed
And I think I just came in my pants
Oh baby do you want to dance
Everything collapses here, slow motion
And the roots of the dance and the stain in my pants
Are beyond any small man's conception
If you drink too much you will drown
And the shame of my life is watching you drown
Lyrics submitted by 2006200720082009
Gary's Song Lyrics as written by John Mark Eitzel
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Sounds like hazy, drunken fun.