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"
Narrator: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Larry the Cucumber
presents, in a sequential image, stereophonic, multimedia event, The
Song of the Cebu!
Larry: Cebu! This is a song about a boy...a song about a little boy
and his cebus...a song about a little boy and his 3 cebus... the little
boy who had a sick cebu, a sad cebu, and a mute cebu. and also a
hippo.
um, um... this is a picture of me at the airport. this is my aunt ruth. this
is me at a bullfight.This is me fighting the bull.
Jimmy, Johnny, & Junior:Ooooh!
Larry: this is me and the bull.
Jimmy, Johnny, & Junior: Aaaah!
Larry:this is me and the bull and... i think that's the bull's cousin.
he's a cebu.
Archibald: Hold it! You call this a multimedia event? This is a slide
projector and a bed sheet! And what on Earth is a cebu, anyway?
Larry: It's kind of like a cow. See?
Archibald: Yes. Well, very good. This could be interesting. Carry on!
Larry: Cebu! Sing it with me! Cebu!
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Cebu!
Larry: Boy is riding with cebu
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Boy is riding with cebu
Larry: Into town in his canoe
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Into town in his canoe
Larry: Sick cebu is rowing and sneezing. Achoo moo moo, achoo moo moo,
achoo moo moo, achoo moo moo moo moo
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Achoo moo moo, achoo moo moo, achoo moo moo,
achoo moo moo, achoo moo moo, achoo moo moo moo moo
Larry: Hippo chewing on bamboo
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Hippo chewing on bamboo
Larry: Can't see boy and three cebus
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Can't see boy and three cebus
Larry: Sad cebu is rowing and crying. Boo-hoo moo moo, boo-hoo moo moo,
boo-hoo moo moo, boo-hoo moo moo moo moo
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Boo-hoo moo moo, boo-hoo moo moo, boo-hoo moo
moo, boo-hoo moo moo, boo-hoo moo moo, boo-hoo moo moo moo moo
Larry: Cebu!
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Cebu!
Larry: Cebu!
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Cebu!
All: Achoo moo moo, boo-hoo moo moo, boo-hoo moo moo, achoo moo moo,
achoo moo moo, boo-hoo moo moo, cebu!
Larry: Hippo seen by mute cebu
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Hippo seen by mute cebu
Larry: Tries to tell the other two
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Tries to tell the other two
Larry: Mute cebu is waving and grunting. Mmm-hmm mmm mmm, mmm-hmm mmm
mmm, mmm-hmm mmm mmm, mmm-hmm mmm mmm mmm mmm
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Mmm-hmm mmm mmm, mmm-hmm mmm mmm, mmm-hmm
mmm mmm, mmm-
hmm mmm mmm mmm mmm
Larry: Uh-oh.
Archibald: Wait! What happens next?
Larry: Um ...
Archibald: Does the hippo see them? Is the poor mute cebu successful in
communicating the imminent danger to the other passengers? Is the boy
injured? Why is the sad cebu sad? Is the canoe wood or aluminum?
Larry: Oh look! There's me and Bob at Sea World! Oh, wow. Forgot about
that one. There's me and that bull again.
Archibald: You can't just start a song and leave it hanging like that!
You know, I've come to expect a lot more from you. This is quite
disappointing! I'm going to have to speak to Bob about this.
Larry: Oh look, a cebu! Cebu!
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Cebu!
Larry: No, wait ... that's a water buffalo.
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: No more song about cebu! Need another verse or
two! Audience is standing and leaving, bye-bye moo, bye-bye moo, bye-bye
moo, bye-bye moo moo moo moo
Jimmy: I want my money back!
Johnny: Yeah, that'd be ... that'd be good.
presents, in a sequential image, stereophonic, multimedia event, The
Song of the Cebu!
Larry: Cebu! This is a song about a boy...a song about a little boy
and his cebus...a song about a little boy and his 3 cebus... the little
boy who had a sick cebu, a sad cebu, and a mute cebu. and also a
hippo.
um, um... this is a picture of me at the airport. this is my aunt ruth. this
is me at a bullfight.This is me fighting the bull.
Jimmy, Johnny, & Junior:Ooooh!
Larry: this is me and the bull.
Jimmy, Johnny, & Junior: Aaaah!
Larry:this is me and the bull and... i think that's the bull's cousin.
he's a cebu.
Archibald: Hold it! You call this a multimedia event? This is a slide
projector and a bed sheet! And what on Earth is a cebu, anyway?
Larry: It's kind of like a cow. See?
Archibald: Yes. Well, very good. This could be interesting. Carry on!
Larry: Cebu! Sing it with me! Cebu!
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Cebu!
Larry: Boy is riding with cebu
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Boy is riding with cebu
Larry: Into town in his canoe
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Into town in his canoe
Larry: Sick cebu is rowing and sneezing. Achoo moo moo, achoo moo moo,
achoo moo moo, achoo moo moo moo moo
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Achoo moo moo, achoo moo moo, achoo moo moo,
achoo moo moo, achoo moo moo, achoo moo moo moo moo
Larry: Hippo chewing on bamboo
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Hippo chewing on bamboo
Larry: Can't see boy and three cebus
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Can't see boy and three cebus
Larry: Sad cebu is rowing and crying. Boo-hoo moo moo, boo-hoo moo moo,
boo-hoo moo moo, boo-hoo moo moo moo moo
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Boo-hoo moo moo, boo-hoo moo moo, boo-hoo moo
moo, boo-hoo moo moo, boo-hoo moo moo, boo-hoo moo moo moo moo
Larry: Cebu!
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Cebu!
Larry: Cebu!
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Cebu!
All: Achoo moo moo, boo-hoo moo moo, boo-hoo moo moo, achoo moo moo,
achoo moo moo, boo-hoo moo moo, cebu!
Larry: Hippo seen by mute cebu
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Hippo seen by mute cebu
Larry: Tries to tell the other two
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Tries to tell the other two
Larry: Mute cebu is waving and grunting. Mmm-hmm mmm mmm, mmm-hmm mmm
mmm, mmm-hmm mmm mmm, mmm-hmm mmm mmm mmm mmm
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Mmm-hmm mmm mmm, mmm-hmm mmm mmm, mmm-hmm
mmm mmm, mmm-
hmm mmm mmm mmm mmm
Larry: Uh-oh.
Archibald: Wait! What happens next?
Larry: Um ...
Archibald: Does the hippo see them? Is the poor mute cebu successful in
communicating the imminent danger to the other passengers? Is the boy
injured? Why is the sad cebu sad? Is the canoe wood or aluminum?
Larry: Oh look! There's me and Bob at Sea World! Oh, wow. Forgot about
that one. There's me and that bull again.
Archibald: You can't just start a song and leave it hanging like that!
You know, I've come to expect a lot more from you. This is quite
disappointing! I'm going to have to speak to Bob about this.
Larry: Oh look, a cebu! Cebu!
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: Cebu!
Larry: No, wait ... that's a water buffalo.
Jimmy, Johnny & Junior: No more song about cebu! Need another verse or
two! Audience is standing and leaving, bye-bye moo, bye-bye moo, bye-bye
moo, bye-bye moo moo moo moo
Jimmy: I want my money back!
Johnny: Yeah, that'd be ... that'd be good.
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