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"
There's a fox on the hill
And he's standing still,
As if he's trying to hide.
My horse is going after him,
He thinks he'll easily catch him
But the Tod is sly.
Lazy days and crazy ways,
The sun is high and I'm feelin' fine.
(and so is ol' Dart)
My horse is unconcerned
As he takes a tricky turn
On the heels of the fox.
But as we come around,
Mr. Tod is off the ground
Smiling down from the rocks.
Crazy days and lazy ways,
The sun is nigh and I'm feelin' high.
(it's only rock and roll)
"Well, I'm an artful dodger"
Said the fox,
"they never catch me, no!
I lead them all a merry dance".
"I see you're on a pleasure run,
Out to have a bit of fun...
Perhaps you'd like a game of chance?"
"So may I propose a little game
...if you'll agree.
I wager you'll never catch me!"
And in a flash,
The fox flipped his tail,
My horse took the bit,
And the chase was on...
Now we're back on the hill
We're going faster still.
And we're nose to nose.
Well my horse is going faster
But the fox is going past us,
Laughing as he goes!
Crazy daisy, lazy crasy,
Matching Mole; a toad in the hole;
(it's only fox and foal).
I'm just a happy fox and clearly,
You're just foal at heart.
I hope we meet again.
You've made me
Oh, such a happy fox.
Cheerio!
And he's standing still,
As if he's trying to hide.
My horse is going after him,
He thinks he'll easily catch him
But the Tod is sly.
Lazy days and crazy ways,
The sun is high and I'm feelin' fine.
(and so is ol' Dart)
My horse is unconcerned
As he takes a tricky turn
On the heels of the fox.
But as we come around,
Mr. Tod is off the ground
Smiling down from the rocks.
Crazy days and lazy ways,
The sun is nigh and I'm feelin' high.
(it's only rock and roll)
"Well, I'm an artful dodger"
Said the fox,
"they never catch me, no!
I lead them all a merry dance".
"I see you're on a pleasure run,
Out to have a bit of fun...
Perhaps you'd like a game of chance?"
"So may I propose a little game
...if you'll agree.
I wager you'll never catch me!"
And in a flash,
The fox flipped his tail,
My horse took the bit,
And the chase was on...
Now we're back on the hill
We're going faster still.
And we're nose to nose.
Well my horse is going faster
But the fox is going past us,
Laughing as he goes!
Crazy daisy, lazy crasy,
Matching Mole; a toad in the hole;
(it's only fox and foal).
I'm just a happy fox and clearly,
You're just foal at heart.
I hope we meet again.
You've made me
Oh, such a happy fox.
Cheerio!
Lyrics submitted by SongMeanings, edited by javaddarami
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