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"
Don't you want to be
A personality
An ocean in the sea
But you'll never make it if you can't shake
So don't mistake it, just try and fake it
And I want you to know
You don't have far to go
So we'll use all your dough
To buy new clothes and see what flows
And powder your nose for photos
You're almost on your way
To popularity
And we'll teach you to play
With icy stare and punk rock hair
And beatnik flare, we'll take you there
'Cause there's nobody else like you
And we sure care just what you're doing
After we have gone our separate ways
Hey, yeah, yeah
So don't you want to be
A big time entity
Your place in history
But don't be scared of what we said
'Cause there's no end to being your friend
But wait out in the hall
We just received a call
We'll have to dump you all
But don't you try and pass us by
'Cause we own you until we're through
And there's so many round like you
And we don't care just what you're doing
After we have gone our separate ways
Hey, yeah, yeah
A personality
An ocean in the sea
But you'll never make it if you can't shake
So don't mistake it, just try and fake it
And I want you to know
You don't have far to go
So we'll use all your dough
To buy new clothes and see what flows
And powder your nose for photos
You're almost on your way
To popularity
And we'll teach you to play
With icy stare and punk rock hair
And beatnik flare, we'll take you there
'Cause there's nobody else like you
And we sure care just what you're doing
After we have gone our separate ways
Hey, yeah, yeah
So don't you want to be
A big time entity
Your place in history
But don't be scared of what we said
'Cause there's no end to being your friend
But wait out in the hall
We just received a call
We'll have to dump you all
But don't you try and pass us by
'Cause we own you until we're through
And there's so many round like you
And we don't care just what you're doing
After we have gone our separate ways
Hey, yeah, yeah
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Buy Me a Pony Lyrics as written by Janet English Damian Whitty
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