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"
All those weekend images tuggin' in the fog
Midnight flood your eyes off just to buy me a jug
Weekend soon behind me telling me to explore
Come on Saturday freedom open up your door.
(One day a week just isn't enough.)
Evening's at the bus stop
With the traffic lights so red
While the day's ships hunger
Faces filled with dread
At tomorrow's sunrise
Each must resume his task
Do they break my soul Medusa
I just gotta ask.
(One day a week just isn't enough.)
Saturday freedom always soon fades
Do me a favor, please stay away
Saturday freedom, six days to behold
Don't leave so quickly, you never grow old.
Wooo-wooo Ahh, Wooo-wooo Ahh
Wooo-wooo Ahh, Wooo-wooo Ahh
Wooo-wooo Ahh, Wooo-wooo Ahh
Wooo-wooo Ahh, Wooo-wooo Ahh!
I think that it's mistaken to say freedom's unsold
And if you feel the same way too, truth is never told
I can't wait, we just gotta have it
Hey, but it's free
Come on Saturday freedom
Give my girl to me.
(One day a week just isn't enough.)
Saturday freedom always soon fades
Do me a favor, please stay away
Joys of the kill are ours to hold
Saturday freedom, mine to behold
Saturday freedom, six days to behold
Don't leave so quickly, never grow old
Saturday freedom seven days a week
Saturday freedom seven days a week
I want it, Saturday freedom seven days a week
Saturday freedom seven days a week
Saturday freedom seven days a week
Gimme Saturday freedom seven days a week
Saturday freedom seven days a week
Saturday freedom seven days a week.
Midnight flood your eyes off just to buy me a jug
Weekend soon behind me telling me to explore
Come on Saturday freedom open up your door.
(One day a week just isn't enough.)
Evening's at the bus stop
With the traffic lights so red
While the day's ships hunger
Faces filled with dread
At tomorrow's sunrise
Each must resume his task
Do they break my soul Medusa
I just gotta ask.
(One day a week just isn't enough.)
Saturday freedom always soon fades
Do me a favor, please stay away
Saturday freedom, six days to behold
Don't leave so quickly, you never grow old.
Wooo-wooo Ahh, Wooo-wooo Ahh
Wooo-wooo Ahh, Wooo-wooo Ahh
Wooo-wooo Ahh, Wooo-wooo Ahh
Wooo-wooo Ahh, Wooo-wooo Ahh!
I think that it's mistaken to say freedom's unsold
And if you feel the same way too, truth is never told
I can't wait, we just gotta have it
Hey, but it's free
Come on Saturday freedom
Give my girl to me.
(One day a week just isn't enough.)
Saturday freedom always soon fades
Do me a favor, please stay away
Joys of the kill are ours to hold
Saturday freedom, mine to behold
Saturday freedom, six days to behold
Don't leave so quickly, never grow old
Saturday freedom seven days a week
Saturday freedom seven days a week
I want it, Saturday freedom seven days a week
Saturday freedom seven days a week
Saturday freedom seven days a week
Gimme Saturday freedom seven days a week
Saturday freedom seven days a week
Saturday freedom seven days a week.
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