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"
I was raised in Pocahontas, Illinois
Everybody thought of me as one of the boys
'Cause I'd run with a crowd that was tough
At fifteen, I was tendin' Big O's Bar
I'd sing 'til 2 AM for a half-full tip jar
Spent my youth singing truth and payin' dues
I'm the biggest thing that ever came from my hometown
And I'll be damned if I'm gonna let 'em down
If it's the last thing I do before they lay me in the ground
You know I'm gonna make Pocahontas proud
I knocked on every door on music row
They looked down at me and said
"Girl, go back home, you ain't got (you ain't got)
What we need (what we need) in this town"
But they couldn't whup the fighting side of me
You know where I come from, we don't give up easily
Overnight
It took all my life to be found
I'm the biggest thing that ever came from my hometown
And I'll be damned if I'm gonna let 'em down
If it's the last thing I do before they lay me in the ground
You know I'm gonna make Pocahontas proud
Pocahontas proud (Pocahontas proud, Pocahontas proud)
At twenty-seven, I had baby Grace
And I was born again when I saw her sweet face
And I knew she was the greatest thing I'd ever do
I'm the biggest thing that ever came from my hometown
I'll be damned if I'm gonna let 'em down
If it's the last thing I do before they lay me in the ground
I'm the biggest thing that ever came from my hometown
And I'll be damned if I'm gonna let 'em down
If it's the last thing I do before they lay me in the ground
You know I'm gonna make Pocahontas proud
I was raised in Pocahontas, Illinois
Pocahontas proud
You know I'm gonna make Pocahontas proud
Pocahontas proud
Good night, Pocahontas, we love ya
Everybody thought of me as one of the boys
'Cause I'd run with a crowd that was tough
At fifteen, I was tendin' Big O's Bar
I'd sing 'til 2 AM for a half-full tip jar
Spent my youth singing truth and payin' dues
I'm the biggest thing that ever came from my hometown
And I'll be damned if I'm gonna let 'em down
If it's the last thing I do before they lay me in the ground
You know I'm gonna make Pocahontas proud
I knocked on every door on music row
They looked down at me and said
"Girl, go back home, you ain't got (you ain't got)
What we need (what we need) in this town"
But they couldn't whup the fighting side of me
You know where I come from, we don't give up easily
Overnight
It took all my life to be found
I'm the biggest thing that ever came from my hometown
And I'll be damned if I'm gonna let 'em down
If it's the last thing I do before they lay me in the ground
You know I'm gonna make Pocahontas proud
Pocahontas proud (Pocahontas proud, Pocahontas proud)
At twenty-seven, I had baby Grace
And I was born again when I saw her sweet face
And I knew she was the greatest thing I'd ever do
I'm the biggest thing that ever came from my hometown
I'll be damned if I'm gonna let 'em down
If it's the last thing I do before they lay me in the ground
I'm the biggest thing that ever came from my hometown
And I'll be damned if I'm gonna let 'em down
If it's the last thing I do before they lay me in the ground
You know I'm gonna make Pocahontas proud
I was raised in Pocahontas, Illinois
Pocahontas proud
You know I'm gonna make Pocahontas proud
Pocahontas proud
Good night, Pocahontas, we love ya
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Pocahontas Proud Lyrics as written by John Rich Gretchen Wilson
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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