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"
Take a ride to somewhere with me
Anywhere that you want it could be
Sit on back and take it all in
I know where you're going
I know where you've been
A little smile a secretive grin
One more pull and we're out there again
Close your eyes and tell me you see
What you believe in is just you and me
Take it or leave it but take it from me
I'm not worryin' I'm not lookin' back again
I ain't thinking it that way
No-ones tellin' you now what you gotta do
We're not listening that way
'Cause it's gold solid gold
We are gold solid gold
Take a trip and I'll meet you there
We'll hang out on a wing and a prayer
Climb on board and put yourself in
We know where we're goin'
We know where we've been
What do we know of the dangers within
I'm not worryin' I'm not lookin' back again
I ain't thinkin' it that way
No-ones tellin' you now what you gotta do
We're not listening that way
'cause' it's gold solid gold
We are gold solid gold
Take a ride to somewhere with me
Anywhere that you want it could be
Sit on back and take it all in
I know where you go
And I know where you've been
What do we know
Of the dangers within
I'm not worryin' I'm not lookin' back again
I ain't thinkin' it that way
No-ones tellin' you now what you gotta do
We're not listenin' that way
I'm not worryin' I'm not lookin' back again
I ain't thinkin' it that way
No-ones tellin' you now what you gotta do
We're not listenin' that way
'Cause it's gold solid gold
We are gold solid gold
Anywhere that you want it could be
Sit on back and take it all in
I know where you're going
I know where you've been
A little smile a secretive grin
One more pull and we're out there again
Close your eyes and tell me you see
What you believe in is just you and me
Take it or leave it but take it from me
I'm not worryin' I'm not lookin' back again
I ain't thinking it that way
No-ones tellin' you now what you gotta do
We're not listening that way
'Cause it's gold solid gold
We are gold solid gold
Take a trip and I'll meet you there
We'll hang out on a wing and a prayer
Climb on board and put yourself in
We know where we're goin'
We know where we've been
What do we know of the dangers within
I'm not worryin' I'm not lookin' back again
I ain't thinkin' it that way
No-ones tellin' you now what you gotta do
We're not listening that way
'cause' it's gold solid gold
We are gold solid gold
Take a ride to somewhere with me
Anywhere that you want it could be
Sit on back and take it all in
I know where you go
And I know where you've been
What do we know
Of the dangers within
I'm not worryin' I'm not lookin' back again
I ain't thinkin' it that way
No-ones tellin' you now what you gotta do
We're not listenin' that way
I'm not worryin' I'm not lookin' back again
I ain't thinkin' it that way
No-ones tellin' you now what you gotta do
We're not listenin' that way
'Cause it's gold solid gold
We are gold solid gold
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Solid Gold Lyrics as written by Robert Young Francis Rossi
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