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"
It's bone dry and hot here in Paradise, Arkansas
I've never seen cracks like the cracks in this dirt
It was Uncle Cliff on the phone, but I really think the Lord called
When he said, come on down and I'll put you to work
It hasn't been easy letting you go
But at least I'm finally on that road
'Cause there ain't no blue ninety-two Cavalier
There ain't no moonlight drive in here
And there are days you don't even cross my mind
There ain't no one here I don't want to see
And no one here that don't want to see me
I ain't found it yet, but I'm convinced there's a life
Somewhere between you and Paradise
I've been hangin' around with a girl here in town
Every time I look she's looking better
But I'm still not sure I could take your voice on the phone
So I wrote you this letter
It hasn't been easy letting you go
But I think I'm finally on that road
'Cause there ain't no blue ninety-two Cavalier
There ain't no moonlight drive in here
And there are days you don't even cross my mind
There ain't no one here I don't want to see
And no one here that don't want to see me
I ain't found it yet, but I'm convinced there's a life
Somewhere between you and Paradise
I'm not gonna apologize for the way I just disappeared
Couldn't live there another minute without you
Thank god I'm here
?Cause there ain't no blue ninety-two Cavalier
There ain't no moonlight drive in here
And there are days you don't even cross my mind
There ain't no one here I don't want to see
And no one here that don't want to see me
I ain't found it yet, but I'm convinced there's a life
Somewhere between you and Paradise
I've never seen cracks like the cracks in this dirt
It was Uncle Cliff on the phone, but I really think the Lord called
When he said, come on down and I'll put you to work
It hasn't been easy letting you go
But at least I'm finally on that road
'Cause there ain't no blue ninety-two Cavalier
There ain't no moonlight drive in here
And there are days you don't even cross my mind
There ain't no one here I don't want to see
And no one here that don't want to see me
I ain't found it yet, but I'm convinced there's a life
Somewhere between you and Paradise
I've been hangin' around with a girl here in town
Every time I look she's looking better
But I'm still not sure I could take your voice on the phone
So I wrote you this letter
It hasn't been easy letting you go
But I think I'm finally on that road
'Cause there ain't no blue ninety-two Cavalier
There ain't no moonlight drive in here
And there are days you don't even cross my mind
There ain't no one here I don't want to see
And no one here that don't want to see me
I ain't found it yet, but I'm convinced there's a life
Somewhere between you and Paradise
I'm not gonna apologize for the way I just disappeared
Couldn't live there another minute without you
Thank god I'm here
?Cause there ain't no blue ninety-two Cavalier
There ain't no moonlight drive in here
And there are days you don't even cross my mind
There ain't no one here I don't want to see
And no one here that don't want to see me
I ain't found it yet, but I'm convinced there's a life
Somewhere between you and Paradise
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