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"
Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Everybody knows
That baby's got new clothes
But lately I've seen her
Ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls
She takes just like a woman
She makes love just like a woman
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
Yes she does
Yeah
Queen Mary
She's my friend
Yes, I believe I'll go see her again
Nobody has to guess
That baby can't be blessed
'Til she sees finally
That she's like all the rest
With her fog
Her amphetamine
And her pearls
She takes just like a woman
She makes love just like a woman
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
It was raining from the first
And I was dying of thirst
So I came in here
And your long time curse hurts
But what's worse
Is the pain in here
I can't stay in here
Ain't it clear
That I just can't fit
Yes, I believe that it's time for us to quit
When we meet again
Introduced as friends
Please don't let on that you knew me when
I was hungry
And it was your world all the way
Ah, you fake just like a woman
You make love just like a woman
Then you ache just like a woman
But you break just like a little girl
Let me see through you baby
Come on now
Baby, you can break down yeah
Just like a woman
Just like a woman
Just like a woman
Just like a woman
Show me
Show me baby
Just like a woman
Just like a woman
Yeah
Just like a woman
Just like a woman
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Everybody knows
That baby's got new clothes
But lately I've seen her
Ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls
She takes just like a woman
She makes love just like a woman
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
Yes she does
Yeah
Queen Mary
She's my friend
Yes, I believe I'll go see her again
Nobody has to guess
That baby can't be blessed
'Til she sees finally
That she's like all the rest
With her fog
Her amphetamine
And her pearls
She takes just like a woman
She makes love just like a woman
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
It was raining from the first
And I was dying of thirst
So I came in here
And your long time curse hurts
But what's worse
Is the pain in here
I can't stay in here
Ain't it clear
That I just can't fit
Yes, I believe that it's time for us to quit
When we meet again
Introduced as friends
Please don't let on that you knew me when
I was hungry
And it was your world all the way
Ah, you fake just like a woman
You make love just like a woman
Then you ache just like a woman
But you break just like a little girl
Let me see through you baby
Come on now
Baby, you can break down yeah
Just like a woman
Just like a woman
Just like a woman
Just like a woman
Show me
Show me baby
Just like a woman
Just like a woman
Yeah
Just like a woman
Just like a woman
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Just Like a Woman Lyrics as written by Bob Dylan
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