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"
Push it push it down
Push it push it down
I know a girl she's from the plains of South Dakota
Drives around inside a home that has a motor
Her mama told her not to so she crossed the border
Her hair was long, she dyed it black and cut it shorter
I heard she fed a cocker-spaniel to a cobra
And I don't know if I believe it but I'm gonna
Step inside her magic ride
And roll the fuzzy dice
She's everything, everything
She's pulling on my heart strings
She's shattering illusions into dust
She's every smile, every tear
She's filling the atmosphere
She says this thing can go the speed of sound
Push the pillow down
Push it push it down
Yeah me and her we're gonna blaze the trail of glory
See every seven wonder before the age of forty
And when the sun goes down we'll take our milk and honey
Live off the land like
We get it get it off the grid and burn the money
Never give our legal names to anybody
When I'm inside
Her mystery ride
I can't believe my mind
She's everything, everything
She's pulling on my heart strings
She's shattering illusions into dust
She's every smile, every tear
She's filling the atmosphere
She says this thing can go the speed of sound
Push the pillow down
A hula girl on the dash
Dances when we go too fast
We don't mind the traffic man
We just crank up Steely Dan
Flying down the 405
What the hell, we're still alive
Coffee in a plastic cup
Wake up
We're pulling up
When I'm inside
Her magic ride
I lose all track of time
She's everything, everything
She's pulling on my heart strings
She's shattering illusions into dust
She's every smile, every tear
She's filling the atmosphere
She says this thing can go the speed of sound
Push the pillow down
Push it push it down
Push it push it down
Push it push it down
I know a girl she's from the plains of South Dakota
Drives around inside a home that has a motor
Her mama told her not to so she crossed the border
Her hair was long, she dyed it black and cut it shorter
I heard she fed a cocker-spaniel to a cobra
And I don't know if I believe it but I'm gonna
Step inside her magic ride
And roll the fuzzy dice
She's everything, everything
She's pulling on my heart strings
She's shattering illusions into dust
She's every smile, every tear
She's filling the atmosphere
She says this thing can go the speed of sound
Push the pillow down
Push it push it down
Yeah me and her we're gonna blaze the trail of glory
See every seven wonder before the age of forty
And when the sun goes down we'll take our milk and honey
Live off the land like
We get it get it off the grid and burn the money
Never give our legal names to anybody
When I'm inside
Her mystery ride
I can't believe my mind
She's everything, everything
She's pulling on my heart strings
She's shattering illusions into dust
She's every smile, every tear
She's filling the atmosphere
She says this thing can go the speed of sound
Push the pillow down
A hula girl on the dash
Dances when we go too fast
We don't mind the traffic man
We just crank up Steely Dan
Flying down the 405
What the hell, we're still alive
Coffee in a plastic cup
Wake up
We're pulling up
When I'm inside
Her magic ride
I lose all track of time
She's everything, everything
She's pulling on my heart strings
She's shattering illusions into dust
She's every smile, every tear
She's filling the atmosphere
She says this thing can go the speed of sound
Push the pillow down
Push it push it down
Push it push it down
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