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"
Anna Lee
Baby don't make me go away
We don't talk about it anymore
Anna Lee
Baby don't make me leave
We don't talk to each other anymore
On a two lane highway
On a summer day
Me and Anna Lee
Rolling down the highway
In a haze
Of renegade and gypsy schemes
Singing our Gypsy love songs
Living on Gypsy Dreams
And I step on the gas
I can feel our hearts race
As long as Anna Lee was there
You know home was any place
On a getaway
From the things that we had done
You know me and my ruthless angel's heart melted into one
Anna Lee
Baby don't make me go away
We don't talk about it anymore
Anna Lee
Baby don't make me leave
We don't talk to each other anymore
You ain't all alone in this angry ugly world
If there is one girl you can hold
My old man's big mistake laid my mama in an early grave
And when he died
He died alone
(don't wanna die alone)
Around South Caroline
I let her take the fall
I ran out of cigarettes
Robbed me a liquor store
Anna Lee hadn't got to the car yet
When I heard them sirens wailing
And I knew I had to split
And I got juiced
I was out of control
Smashed up the car
Slipped up on the sidewalk
When I came to
You know my poor heart sank
I knew what Anna Lee had done
To bail me out of the drunk tank
Her last act of devotion
Got me out of that jail
She had plied her worldly charm
Just to throw my bail
Anna Lee
I said you had gone too far
She just slapped my face and spit
And took the keys back to her car
Baby don't make me go away
We don't talk about it anymore
Anna Lee
Baby don't make me leave
We don't talk to each other anymore
On a two lane highway
On a summer day
Me and Anna Lee
Rolling down the highway
In a haze
Of renegade and gypsy schemes
Singing our Gypsy love songs
Living on Gypsy Dreams
And I step on the gas
I can feel our hearts race
As long as Anna Lee was there
You know home was any place
On a getaway
From the things that we had done
You know me and my ruthless angel's heart melted into one
Anna Lee
Baby don't make me go away
We don't talk about it anymore
Anna Lee
Baby don't make me leave
We don't talk to each other anymore
You ain't all alone in this angry ugly world
If there is one girl you can hold
My old man's big mistake laid my mama in an early grave
And when he died
He died alone
(don't wanna die alone)
Around South Caroline
I let her take the fall
I ran out of cigarettes
Robbed me a liquor store
Anna Lee hadn't got to the car yet
When I heard them sirens wailing
And I knew I had to split
And I got juiced
I was out of control
Smashed up the car
Slipped up on the sidewalk
When I came to
You know my poor heart sank
I knew what Anna Lee had done
To bail me out of the drunk tank
Her last act of devotion
Got me out of that jail
She had plied her worldly charm
Just to throw my bail
Anna Lee
I said you had gone too far
She just slapped my face and spit
And took the keys back to her car
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