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"
Gonna send those welfare bombs right back to work
Gonna start a war before 84
Start a dirty war in El Salvador
Gonna start a war before 84
Gonna back the contras and apartheid
Gonna start a war before 84
Then I'll win the election by a landslide
Ronnie and Mags, Maggie and Ron
Let’s get together build a neutron bomb
(Ronnie and Mags)
Maggie and Ron, Ronnie and Mags
Let’s go to Grenada and glorify our flags
Could a private Dodge shut down some mines
Gonna start a war before 84
[?]
Gonna start a war before 84
Feed a slice of cake to Bobby Sands
Gonna start a war before 84
Spend a holiday in the Falklands
(Maggie and Ron)
Ronnie and Mags, Maggie and Ron
Gonna get the hostages from Iran
(Ronnie and Mags)
Maggie and Ron, Ronnie and Mags
Let’s go to Grenada and the Falklands
Don’t stop
Ronnie and Mags, Denis and Mags
We know exactly who is wearing the pants
(Maggie and Ron)
Denis and Mags, Maggie and Ron
Let’s have a force and build a neutron bomb
Gonna start a war before 84
Start a dirty war in El Salvador
Gonna start a war before 84
Gonna back the contras and apartheid
Gonna start a war before 84
Then I'll win the election by a landslide
Ronnie and Mags, Maggie and Ron
Let’s get together build a neutron bomb
(Ronnie and Mags)
Maggie and Ron, Ronnie and Mags
Let’s go to Grenada and glorify our flags
Could a private Dodge shut down some mines
Gonna start a war before 84
[?]
Gonna start a war before 84
Feed a slice of cake to Bobby Sands
Gonna start a war before 84
Spend a holiday in the Falklands
(Maggie and Ron)
Ronnie and Mags, Maggie and Ron
Gonna get the hostages from Iran
(Ronnie and Mags)
Maggie and Ron, Ronnie and Mags
Let’s go to Grenada and the Falklands
Don’t stop
Ronnie and Mags, Denis and Mags
We know exactly who is wearing the pants
(Maggie and Ron)
Denis and Mags, Maggie and Ron
Let’s have a force and build a neutron bomb
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Song is about different world problems during the time that Ronnie and Mags were in power (Khmer Rouge, Falklands War, U.S. invasion of Grenada, Iran-Contra affair, Bobby Sands - prisoner that died in a hunger strike).
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