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"
And so it begins
My life of crime
I might as all well now
I've already done my time
Now let's start again
In a life of crime
I'm tired of walking on down
The straight and narrow line
I'm going down to the Goldie Mill
I'm going down to the Speed
I can't pay my rent if I don't pay my phone bills
I'm spittin' out shells of sunflower seeds, now
Gone, gone, my money's all gone
Gone, gone, my money's all gone
I've spent it pursuing my vairous sins
Everyone loses and nobody wins
Everyone's finished, and so it begins
My life of crime
I might as all well now
I've already done my time
Now let's start again
In a life of crime
I'm tired of walking on down
The straight and narrow line
I'm going down to the Giant
I'm going down to the Lake
Well, he's got sleeping-in down to a science
And I'm getting tired of staying awake
Gone, gone, my money's all gone
Gone, gone, my money's all gone
I've spent it pursuing my vairous sins
Everyone loses and nobody wins
Everyone's finished, and so it begins
My life of crime
I might as all well now
I've already done my time
Now let's start again
In a life of crime
I'm tired of walking on down
The straight and narrow line
At St. George’s Square the angriest boy
Is now thinking up ways to stay unemployed
I've wasted my dollars, I've wasted my cents
I've wasted my breath in my own defense now
Gone, gone, my money's all gone
Gone, gone, my money's all gone
I've spent it pursuing my vairous sins
Everyone loses and nobody wins
Gone, gone, my money's all gone
Gone, gone, my money's all gone
I've spent it pursuing my vairous sins
Everyone loses and nobody wins
Everyone's finished, and so it begins
My life of crime
I might as all well now
I've already done my time
My life of crime
I might as all well now
I've already done my time
Now let's start again
In a life of crime
I'm tired of walking on down
The straight and narrow line
I'm going down to the Goldie Mill
I'm going down to the Speed
I can't pay my rent if I don't pay my phone bills
I'm spittin' out shells of sunflower seeds, now
Gone, gone, my money's all gone
Gone, gone, my money's all gone
I've spent it pursuing my vairous sins
Everyone loses and nobody wins
Everyone's finished, and so it begins
My life of crime
I might as all well now
I've already done my time
Now let's start again
In a life of crime
I'm tired of walking on down
The straight and narrow line
I'm going down to the Giant
I'm going down to the Lake
Well, he's got sleeping-in down to a science
And I'm getting tired of staying awake
Gone, gone, my money's all gone
Gone, gone, my money's all gone
I've spent it pursuing my vairous sins
Everyone loses and nobody wins
Everyone's finished, and so it begins
My life of crime
I might as all well now
I've already done my time
Now let's start again
In a life of crime
I'm tired of walking on down
The straight and narrow line
At St. George’s Square the angriest boy
Is now thinking up ways to stay unemployed
I've wasted my dollars, I've wasted my cents
I've wasted my breath in my own defense now
Gone, gone, my money's all gone
Gone, gone, my money's all gone
I've spent it pursuing my vairous sins
Everyone loses and nobody wins
Gone, gone, my money's all gone
Gone, gone, my money's all gone
I've spent it pursuing my vairous sins
Everyone loses and nobody wins
Everyone's finished, and so it begins
My life of crime
I might as all well now
I've already done my time
Lyrics submitted by Waterlink
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