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"
Been working all day
Like I'm doing time
The foreman say you
Got to do some overtime
Mister foreman, got to tell you
I can't wait until noon
Cause I got to get on home
To my love bones
I know my baby's waiting
Cause she's anticipating
I'm gonna be connected so
Our love can be protected
(Going home to get my love bone)
Going home and get my love bone
(Going home to get my love bone)
I'm going home, right or wrong
(Going home to get my love bone)
(If I were you, I'd check mine too)
Mister foreman seem so dumb
He's just sitting there
I think you better cut
Out on this overtime
Now, overtime might help
To make the money grow
But it gives me neighbor time
To steal my love bone
I know my baby's waiting
She's anticipating
I'm gonna be connected so
Our love can be protected
(Going home to get my love bone)
I'm going home and get my love bone
(Going home to get my love bone)
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah
(If I were you, I'd check mine too)
Hey, hey, get it
Get it, get on home
You're gone ??
Oh, a man is a fool to be
Get it, alright
Get it, you better check
It out now, baby
(Going home to get my love bone)
Going home and get my love bone
(Going home and check my love bone)
(Going home to get my love bone)
(If I were you, I'd check mine too)
Mister foreman, I think we
Better make a compromise
If you keep me any longer
It won't be too wise
My baby thinks I'm
Fooling with another ?
Now fire me if you wanna
Cause I'm going home
I know my baby's waiting
Cause he's anticipating
I'm gonna be connected so
Our love can be protected
Going home, get my love bones
If I were you, I'd check my love bone
I'm going home and get my love bone
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Going on home
You take like James Brown
You better check on your love bone
And you, Wilson Pickett
You better get on the telephone
And check at home
I remember that number you
Gave me that time 634-5789
You better call it right now
And check on your love bone
Tyrone Davis
You better check on your love bone
Tell 'em J.T. told you
You better check on your love bone
Like I'm doing time
The foreman say you
Got to do some overtime
Mister foreman, got to tell you
I can't wait until noon
Cause I got to get on home
To my love bones
I know my baby's waiting
Cause she's anticipating
I'm gonna be connected so
Our love can be protected
(Going home to get my love bone)
Going home and get my love bone
(Going home to get my love bone)
I'm going home, right or wrong
(Going home to get my love bone)
(If I were you, I'd check mine too)
Mister foreman seem so dumb
He's just sitting there
I think you better cut
Out on this overtime
Now, overtime might help
To make the money grow
But it gives me neighbor time
To steal my love bone
I know my baby's waiting
She's anticipating
I'm gonna be connected so
Our love can be protected
(Going home to get my love bone)
I'm going home and get my love bone
(Going home to get my love bone)
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah
(If I were you, I'd check mine too)
Hey, hey, get it
Get it, get on home
You're gone ??
Oh, a man is a fool to be
Get it, alright
Get it, you better check
It out now, baby
(Going home to get my love bone)
Going home and get my love bone
(Going home and check my love bone)
(Going home to get my love bone)
(If I were you, I'd check mine too)
Mister foreman, I think we
Better make a compromise
If you keep me any longer
It won't be too wise
My baby thinks I'm
Fooling with another ?
Now fire me if you wanna
Cause I'm going home
I know my baby's waiting
Cause he's anticipating
I'm gonna be connected so
Our love can be protected
Going home, get my love bones
If I were you, I'd check my love bone
I'm going home and get my love bone
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Going on home
You take like James Brown
You better check on your love bone
And you, Wilson Pickett
You better get on the telephone
And check at home
I remember that number you
Gave me that time 634-5789
You better call it right now
And check on your love bone
Tyrone Davis
You better check on your love bone
Tell 'em J.T. told you
You better check on your love bone
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