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"
Crazy Janie and her mission man
Were back in the alley trading hands
Along came Wild Billy with his friend G-Man
All duded up for Saturday night
Well Billy slammed on his coaster brakes
Said anybody wanna go to Greasy Lake?
It's a mile out on the dark side of Route 88
I got a bottle of Rosy let's try it
We'll pick up Hazy Davy and Killer Joe
And I'll take you all out to where the gypsy angels go
They're built like light, and they dance like
Spirits in the night, all night
You don't know what they can do to ya
Spirits in the night (all night) in the night (all night)
Stand right up and let 'em shoot through ya
Wild Billy was a crazy cat
And he shook some dust out of his coonskin cap
He said try some of this, it'll show you where you're at
Or at least it'll help you to feel it
By the time we made it up to Greasy Lake
My head was out the window, Janie's fingers in the cake
I think I really dug her, I was too loose to fake
I said I'm hurt, she said honey let's heal it
And we danced all night to a soul fairy band
And she kissed me just right like a lonely angel can
She felt so nice, just as soft as a
Spirit in the night, all night
Janie don't know what she do to ya
Spirits in the night (all night) in the night (all night)
Stand right up and let her shoot through ya
(SOLOS)
Spirits in the night, in the night
Spirits in the night, all night
Spirits in the night, in the night
Spirits in the night, all night
Now the night was bright and the starts threw light
On Billy and Davy dancing in the moonlight
Down near the water in a stoned mud fight
Killer Joe passed out on the lawn
Hazy Davy got really hurt
He ran into the lake in just his socks and a shirt
Me and Crazy Janie's making love in the dirt
Singing our birthday songs
Janie said it was time to go
So we closed our eyes and said goodbye
To Gypsy Angel Row
Felt so right, together we moved like
Spirits in the night, all night
You don't know what they can do to ya
Spirits in the night (all night) all night (all night)
Stand right up and let 'em shoot through ya
Spirits in the night, all night
You don't know what they can do to ya
Spirits in the night, all night
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Spirits in the night, all night
Spirits in the night, all night
Spirits in the night
Spirits in the night
Were back in the alley trading hands
Along came Wild Billy with his friend G-Man
All duded up for Saturday night
Well Billy slammed on his coaster brakes
Said anybody wanna go to Greasy Lake?
It's a mile out on the dark side of Route 88
I got a bottle of Rosy let's try it
We'll pick up Hazy Davy and Killer Joe
And I'll take you all out to where the gypsy angels go
They're built like light, and they dance like
Spirits in the night, all night
You don't know what they can do to ya
Spirits in the night (all night) in the night (all night)
Stand right up and let 'em shoot through ya
Wild Billy was a crazy cat
And he shook some dust out of his coonskin cap
He said try some of this, it'll show you where you're at
Or at least it'll help you to feel it
By the time we made it up to Greasy Lake
My head was out the window, Janie's fingers in the cake
I think I really dug her, I was too loose to fake
I said I'm hurt, she said honey let's heal it
And we danced all night to a soul fairy band
And she kissed me just right like a lonely angel can
She felt so nice, just as soft as a
Spirit in the night, all night
Janie don't know what she do to ya
Spirits in the night (all night) in the night (all night)
Stand right up and let her shoot through ya
(SOLOS)
Spirits in the night, in the night
Spirits in the night, all night
Spirits in the night, in the night
Spirits in the night, all night
Now the night was bright and the starts threw light
On Billy and Davy dancing in the moonlight
Down near the water in a stoned mud fight
Killer Joe passed out on the lawn
Hazy Davy got really hurt
He ran into the lake in just his socks and a shirt
Me and Crazy Janie's making love in the dirt
Singing our birthday songs
Janie said it was time to go
So we closed our eyes and said goodbye
To Gypsy Angel Row
Felt so right, together we moved like
Spirits in the night, all night
You don't know what they can do to ya
Spirits in the night (all night) all night (all night)
Stand right up and let 'em shoot through ya
Spirits in the night, all night
You don't know what they can do to ya
Spirits in the night, all night
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Spirits in the night, all night
Spirits in the night, all night
Spirits in the night
Spirits in the night
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