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"
Half an hour till train time and sir
And a fearful dark time, too
Take a look at the switch lights, Tom
Fetch in a stick when you're through
On time? Well, yes, I guess so
She left the last station all right
Bet she'll come around the curve a-flyin'
Bill Mason's on tonight
You know Bill? He's an engineer
Been on the road most of his life
I'll never forget the mornin'
He married himself a wife
Bill hadn't been married an hour
When up come a message from Kress
Orderin' Bill to go down there
And bring out the night express
Maggie sat down by the window
To wait for the night express
And sir, if she hadn't 'a done so
She'd 'a been a widow, I guess
For it must 'a been about midnight
When the mill hands left the Ridge
Down came those drunken devils
And tore off a rail from the bridge
But Maggie heard them workin'
And guessed there was somethin' wrong
And in less than fifteen minutes
Bill's train would be along
She couldn't 'a come here to tell us
A mile, it wouldn't 'a done
So she just grabbed a lantern
And made for the bridge on the run
By God, Bill saw the signal
And he stopped the night express
And he found his Maggie cryin'
On the track in her weddin' dress
Cryin' and laughin' for joy, sir
And holdin' on to the light
Well, here's the train, goodbye sir
Bill Mason's on time tonight
And a fearful dark time, too
Take a look at the switch lights, Tom
Fetch in a stick when you're through
On time? Well, yes, I guess so
She left the last station all right
Bet she'll come around the curve a-flyin'
Bill Mason's on tonight
You know Bill? He's an engineer
Been on the road most of his life
I'll never forget the mornin'
He married himself a wife
Bill hadn't been married an hour
When up come a message from Kress
Orderin' Bill to go down there
And bring out the night express
Maggie sat down by the window
To wait for the night express
And sir, if she hadn't 'a done so
She'd 'a been a widow, I guess
For it must 'a been about midnight
When the mill hands left the Ridge
Down came those drunken devils
And tore off a rail from the bridge
But Maggie heard them workin'
And guessed there was somethin' wrong
And in less than fifteen minutes
Bill's train would be along
She couldn't 'a come here to tell us
A mile, it wouldn't 'a done
So she just grabbed a lantern
And made for the bridge on the run
By God, Bill saw the signal
And he stopped the night express
And he found his Maggie cryin'
On the track in her weddin' dress
Cryin' and laughin' for joy, sir
And holdin' on to the light
Well, here's the train, goodbye sir
Bill Mason's on time tonight
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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