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"
The leaves are falling all around
Time I was on my way
Thanks to you, I'm much obliged
For such a pleasant stay
But now it's time for me to go
Autumn moon, light my way
For now I smell the rain, and with it pain, and it's headed my way
Sometimes I grow so tired
But I know I got one thing I got to do
Ramble on
And now's the time, the time is now, sing my song
I'm goin' 'round and 'round I got to find my girl, on my way
I've been this way ten years to the day, ramble on
I'm gonna find the queen of all my dreams
Got no time to for spreadin' roots
Time has come to be gone
And to our health we drank a thousand times
It's time to ramble on
Ramble on
Now's the time, the time is now, to sing my song
I'm goin' 'round the world, I got to find my girl, on my way
I've been this way ten years to the day, I gotta ramble on
I gotta find the queen of all my dreams
Mine's a tale, can't be told, my freedom I hold dear
Years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air
In the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair
But Gollum, and the evil one
Crept up and slipped away with her, her, her, yeah
And there's nothing I can do now
Unless I keep on
Ramblin' (I'm gonna)
And now's the time, the time is now, sing my song
I'm goin' 'round and 'round I got to find my girl, on my way
I've been this way ten years to the day, ramble on
I'm goin' round the world, see my girl
Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, I will
Searchin' for my baby
Doin' it, doin' it, doin' it, doin' it, doin' it, babe, oh
Keep on ramblin', baby
Hmm, a-keep on ramblin', baby
Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
Keep on ramblin', baby
Ooh, baby, baby, baby, baby
Time I was on my way
Thanks to you, I'm much obliged
For such a pleasant stay
But now it's time for me to go
Autumn moon, light my way
For now I smell the rain, and with it pain, and it's headed my way
Sometimes I grow so tired
But I know I got one thing I got to do
Ramble on
And now's the time, the time is now, sing my song
I'm goin' 'round and 'round I got to find my girl, on my way
I've been this way ten years to the day, ramble on
I'm gonna find the queen of all my dreams
Got no time to for spreadin' roots
Time has come to be gone
And to our health we drank a thousand times
It's time to ramble on
Ramble on
Now's the time, the time is now, to sing my song
I'm goin' 'round the world, I got to find my girl, on my way
I've been this way ten years to the day, I gotta ramble on
I gotta find the queen of all my dreams
Mine's a tale, can't be told, my freedom I hold dear
Years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air
In the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair
But Gollum, and the evil one
Crept up and slipped away with her, her, her, yeah
And there's nothing I can do now
Unless I keep on
Ramblin' (I'm gonna)
And now's the time, the time is now, sing my song
I'm goin' 'round and 'round I got to find my girl, on my way
I've been this way ten years to the day, ramble on
I'm goin' round the world, see my girl
Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, I will
Searchin' for my baby
Doin' it, doin' it, doin' it, doin' it, doin' it, babe, oh
Keep on ramblin', baby
Hmm, a-keep on ramblin', baby
Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
Keep on ramblin', baby
Ooh, baby, baby, baby, baby
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Ramble On Lyrics as written by Robert Plant Jimmy Page
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