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"
I'm going to San Bernardino, ring-a-ding-ding
Milkshake mixers, that's my thing now
These guys bought a heap of my stuff
And I gotta see a good thing sure enough
Or my name's not Kroc, that's Kroc with a K
Like crocodile but not spelled that way
It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat
Kroc style, boom, like that!
The folks line up all down the street
Now I'm seeing this girl devour her meat now
And then I get it wham as clear as day
My pulse begins to hammer and I hear a voice say
These boys have got this down
Ought to be one of these in every town
These boys have got the touch
It's clean as a whistle and it don't cost much
Wham bam don't wait long
Shake, fries, patty you're gone
How about that friendly name, heck
Every little thing ought to stay the same
Or my name's not Kroc, that's Kroc with a K
Like crocodile but not spelled that way now
It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat
Dog eat dog, rat eat rat now
Oh it's dog eat dog, rat eat rat
Kroc style, boom, like that!
You gentlemen ought to expand
You're gonna need a helping hand now
So gentlemen, well, what about me?
We'll make a little business history now
Or my name's not Kroc, call me Ray
Like crocodile, but not spelled that way now
It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat
Kroc style, boom, like that!
Well, we'll build it up, and I'll buy him out
The man they made me grind it out now
They open up a new place flippin' meat
So I do too, right across the street
I got the name, I need the town
They sell up in the end and it all shuts down
Sometimes you gotta be an S.O.B.
You wanna make a dream reality
Competition? Send 'em south
They're gonna drown, put a hose in their mouth
Do not pass go go straight to hell
I smell that meat hook smell
Or my name's not Kroc, that's Kroc with a K
Like crocodile, but not spelled that way now
Oh it's dog eat dog, rat eat rat
Dog eat dog, rat eat rat now
Oh it's dog eat dog, rat eat rat
Kroc style, boom, like that!
Milkshake mixers, that's my thing now
These guys bought a heap of my stuff
And I gotta see a good thing sure enough
Or my name's not Kroc, that's Kroc with a K
Like crocodile but not spelled that way
It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat
Kroc style, boom, like that!
The folks line up all down the street
Now I'm seeing this girl devour her meat now
And then I get it wham as clear as day
My pulse begins to hammer and I hear a voice say
These boys have got this down
Ought to be one of these in every town
These boys have got the touch
It's clean as a whistle and it don't cost much
Wham bam don't wait long
Shake, fries, patty you're gone
How about that friendly name, heck
Every little thing ought to stay the same
Or my name's not Kroc, that's Kroc with a K
Like crocodile but not spelled that way now
It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat
Dog eat dog, rat eat rat now
Oh it's dog eat dog, rat eat rat
Kroc style, boom, like that!
You gentlemen ought to expand
You're gonna need a helping hand now
So gentlemen, well, what about me?
We'll make a little business history now
Or my name's not Kroc, call me Ray
Like crocodile, but not spelled that way now
It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat
Kroc style, boom, like that!
Well, we'll build it up, and I'll buy him out
The man they made me grind it out now
They open up a new place flippin' meat
So I do too, right across the street
I got the name, I need the town
They sell up in the end and it all shuts down
Sometimes you gotta be an S.O.B.
You wanna make a dream reality
Competition? Send 'em south
They're gonna drown, put a hose in their mouth
Do not pass go go straight to hell
I smell that meat hook smell
Or my name's not Kroc, that's Kroc with a K
Like crocodile, but not spelled that way now
Oh it's dog eat dog, rat eat rat
Dog eat dog, rat eat rat now
Oh it's dog eat dog, rat eat rat
Kroc style, boom, like that!
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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