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"
She got an old Silverado and forty-seven acres
She played the hack so loud, she blew out her speakers
She gotta neon Bud sign hanging in the kitchen
And a Texas Lonestar stitched on her britches
She keeps a double barrel next to the bed
Got a little money shaker that'll knock ya dead
She's a cowboy girl, tough on the leather
Wilder than the 4th of July
She's a cowboy girl, if you wanna catch her
Man, you better know how to
Man, you better know how to ride
She puts on her boots and drives to the city
Them uptown boys, they all think she's pretty
Oh, but she don't want your black Maserati
She wants a dirt bike mud ride in the country
She's a sweet little twister in a Stetson hat
Let me tell ya mister, nothing wrong with that
She's a cowboy girl, tough on the leather
Wilder than the 4th of July
She's a cowboy girl, if you wanna catch her
Man, you better know how to
Man, you better know how to ride
Ow, ride 'em girl
She's a bona fide, southern fried
Friday night queen
Knock 'em down drag 'em out
Honky tonk dream, I gotta get her with me
She's a cowboy girl, tough on the leather
Wilder than the 4th of July
She's a cowboy girl, if you wanna catch her
You're gonna have to chase
That cowboy girl, tough on the leather
Wilder than the 4th of July
She's a cowboy girl, if you wanna catch her
Man, you better know how to
Man, you better know how to ride
Ah, yeah
Man, you better know how to ride
She played the hack so loud, she blew out her speakers
She gotta neon Bud sign hanging in the kitchen
And a Texas Lonestar stitched on her britches
She keeps a double barrel next to the bed
Got a little money shaker that'll knock ya dead
She's a cowboy girl, tough on the leather
Wilder than the 4th of July
She's a cowboy girl, if you wanna catch her
Man, you better know how to
Man, you better know how to ride
She puts on her boots and drives to the city
Them uptown boys, they all think she's pretty
Oh, but she don't want your black Maserati
She wants a dirt bike mud ride in the country
She's a sweet little twister in a Stetson hat
Let me tell ya mister, nothing wrong with that
She's a cowboy girl, tough on the leather
Wilder than the 4th of July
She's a cowboy girl, if you wanna catch her
Man, you better know how to
Man, you better know how to ride
Ow, ride 'em girl
She's a bona fide, southern fried
Friday night queen
Knock 'em down drag 'em out
Honky tonk dream, I gotta get her with me
She's a cowboy girl, tough on the leather
Wilder than the 4th of July
She's a cowboy girl, if you wanna catch her
You're gonna have to chase
That cowboy girl, tough on the leather
Wilder than the 4th of July
She's a cowboy girl, if you wanna catch her
Man, you better know how to
Man, you better know how to ride
Ah, yeah
Man, you better know how to ride
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Cowboy Girl Lyrics as written by Luther Brett James
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