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"
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Hey old friend let's look back
On the crazy clothes we wore
Ain't it fun to look back
And to see it's all been done before
All those nights together
Are a special memory
And I can't wait for tomorrow
Just as long as you're dancing next to me
'Cause it's so clear every year we get stronger (stronger)
What's gone is gone, the past is the past
Turn the radio up and then hit the gas 'cause
I know we've come so far
But we've got so far to go
I know the road seems long
But it won't be long 'till it's time to go
So most days we'll take it fast
And some nights we'll take it slow
I know we've come so far
But baby, baby we've got so far to go
Ah yeah, hey yeah, uh-huh
Hey old friend together
Side by side and year by year
The road was filled with twists and turns
Oh, but that's the road that got us here
Let's move past the bad times
But before those memories fade
Let's forgive but not forget
And learn from the mistakes we made
'Cause it's so clear every year we get stronger (stronger)
So don't give up and don't say when
And just get back on the road again 'cause
I know we've come so far
But we've got so far to go
I know the road seems long
But it won't be long 'til it's time to go
So most days we'll take it fast
And some nights we'll take it slow
I know we've come so far
But baby, baby we've got so far to go
Oh oh-oh-oh, oh yeah, yeah yeah, oh oh oh
Hey old friend come along for this ride (yeah)
There's plenty of room so jump inside (jump inside)
The highway's rocky every now and then (yeah yeah)
But it's so much better then where I've been (oh)
Just keep movin' at your own speed (yeah, yeah)
Your heart is all the compass you'll ever need (it's all you'll need)
Let's keep cruisin' the road we're on
'Cause the rear view mirror only shows what's gone, gone, gone
Yeah yeah, oh yeah
We got so far to go (yeah)
Oh, it's so clear every year we get stronger (stronger)
So shine that light, take my hand
Let's dance into the promise land 'cause
I know we've come so far
But we've got so far to go
I know the road seems long
But it won't be long 'til it's time to go
So most days we'll take it fast
And some nights we'll take it slow
I know we've come so far
But baby, baby we've got so far to go
But baby, baby we've got so far to go
Baby, baby, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Baby, baby we've got so far to go
Baby, baby, ooh (yeah yeah)
(Welcome to the '60s)
Baby, baby we've got so far to go
Baby, baby, ooh
Baby, baby we've got so far to go
Baby, baby, ooh
Baby, baby we've got so far to go
Baby, baby, ooh
Baby, baby we've got so far to go
Baby, baby, ooh (I've got so far to go)
Baby, baby we've got so far to go (oh, yeah yeah)
Hey old friend let's look back
On the crazy clothes we wore
Ain't it fun to look back
And to see it's all been done before
All those nights together
Are a special memory
And I can't wait for tomorrow
Just as long as you're dancing next to me
'Cause it's so clear every year we get stronger (stronger)
What's gone is gone, the past is the past
Turn the radio up and then hit the gas 'cause
I know we've come so far
But we've got so far to go
I know the road seems long
But it won't be long 'till it's time to go
So most days we'll take it fast
And some nights we'll take it slow
I know we've come so far
But baby, baby we've got so far to go
Ah yeah, hey yeah, uh-huh
Hey old friend together
Side by side and year by year
The road was filled with twists and turns
Oh, but that's the road that got us here
Let's move past the bad times
But before those memories fade
Let's forgive but not forget
And learn from the mistakes we made
'Cause it's so clear every year we get stronger (stronger)
So don't give up and don't say when
And just get back on the road again 'cause
I know we've come so far
But we've got so far to go
I know the road seems long
But it won't be long 'til it's time to go
So most days we'll take it fast
And some nights we'll take it slow
I know we've come so far
But baby, baby we've got so far to go
Oh oh-oh-oh, oh yeah, yeah yeah, oh oh oh
Hey old friend come along for this ride (yeah)
There's plenty of room so jump inside (jump inside)
The highway's rocky every now and then (yeah yeah)
But it's so much better then where I've been (oh)
Just keep movin' at your own speed (yeah, yeah)
Your heart is all the compass you'll ever need (it's all you'll need)
Let's keep cruisin' the road we're on
'Cause the rear view mirror only shows what's gone, gone, gone
Yeah yeah, oh yeah
We got so far to go (yeah)
Oh, it's so clear every year we get stronger (stronger)
So shine that light, take my hand
Let's dance into the promise land 'cause
I know we've come so far
But we've got so far to go
I know the road seems long
But it won't be long 'til it's time to go
So most days we'll take it fast
And some nights we'll take it slow
I know we've come so far
But baby, baby we've got so far to go
But baby, baby we've got so far to go
Baby, baby, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Baby, baby we've got so far to go
Baby, baby, ooh (yeah yeah)
(Welcome to the '60s)
Baby, baby we've got so far to go
Baby, baby, ooh
Baby, baby we've got so far to go
Baby, baby, ooh
Baby, baby we've got so far to go
Baby, baby, ooh
Baby, baby we've got so far to go
Baby, baby, ooh (I've got so far to go)
Baby, baby we've got so far to go (oh, yeah yeah)
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Come So Far (Got So Far to Go) Lyrics as written by Scott Wittman Marc Shaiman
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