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"
(Another mother's child)
Another mother's child lay dying
Caught up in the games that people play
You think guns are the only answer
But words can have a stronger say
I feel like zoomin'
I feel like zoomin', baby
Zoomin' away from here now
I, I feel like zoomin', oh yeah
Zoomin' away from here
If a brother is really your brother
Does is matter, the colors that he wears?
But every brother is your brother
Can you hear me?
But I don't think you really care
I feel like zoomin'
(Gotta change the way we think about it)
Zoomin' away from here now
I, I feel like zoomin', oh yeah
Zoomin' away from here
One mother's love shot down in a minute
But you know, there's two mothers crying
One son has paid the price, lost his life
One's locked away but they're both goin' to stay
Crazy love, how long
(How long is this gonna go on?)
Feel like zoomin'
(Gotta find a better place right now)
Feel like zoomin'
(Gotta go on up, a little higher)
There's so much trouble going on all around us
We've got to find a better way of thinking
Zoomin' is just a change in space to a place
That's in your mind and it's not hard to find
And it's not hard to find
I feel like zoomin', oh yeah
Zoomin' away from here
Let me tell you
Do you want a better place?
Don't you want a better space?
Let's go zoomin'
You know, it's never hard to find
It's just inside your mind
Let's go zoomin', oh yeah
I feel like zoomin'
Feel like zoomin', baby
Zoomin', yeah
Zoomin' away from here now
I, I feel like zoomin', oh yeah
Zoomin' away from here
Do you want a better place?
Don't you want a better space?
Let's go zoomin'
You know, it's never hard to find
It's just inside your mind
Let's go zoomin', oh yeah
Another mother's child lay dying
Caught up in the games that people play
You think guns are the only answer
But words can have a stronger say
I feel like zoomin'
I feel like zoomin', baby
Zoomin' away from here now
I, I feel like zoomin', oh yeah
Zoomin' away from here
If a brother is really your brother
Does is matter, the colors that he wears?
But every brother is your brother
Can you hear me?
But I don't think you really care
I feel like zoomin'
(Gotta change the way we think about it)
Zoomin' away from here now
I, I feel like zoomin', oh yeah
Zoomin' away from here
One mother's love shot down in a minute
But you know, there's two mothers crying
One son has paid the price, lost his life
One's locked away but they're both goin' to stay
Crazy love, how long
(How long is this gonna go on?)
Feel like zoomin'
(Gotta find a better place right now)
Feel like zoomin'
(Gotta go on up, a little higher)
There's so much trouble going on all around us
We've got to find a better way of thinking
Zoomin' is just a change in space to a place
That's in your mind and it's not hard to find
And it's not hard to find
I feel like zoomin', oh yeah
Zoomin' away from here
Let me tell you
Do you want a better place?
Don't you want a better space?
Let's go zoomin'
You know, it's never hard to find
It's just inside your mind
Let's go zoomin', oh yeah
I feel like zoomin'
Feel like zoomin', baby
Zoomin', yeah
Zoomin' away from here now
I, I feel like zoomin', oh yeah
Zoomin' away from here
Do you want a better place?
Don't you want a better space?
Let's go zoomin'
You know, it's never hard to find
It's just inside your mind
Let's go zoomin', oh yeah
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Zoomin' Lyrics as written by Lloyd Tolbert Lionel Richie
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