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"
All I have is all I need enough for love but not for greed yeah.
I was younger once this guy came to me told me about all the honey out there.
He said "Honey gold jewels money women wine cars that shine."
I don't know what he was talking about but I think I had an idea.
He said "Smell the rose, sweet sweet rose, catch the sun find where it grows.
Smell the rose, the sweet sweet rose that grows on castle walls in heaven. In heaven yeah."
Well if it feels like summer you're catching the sun, and I'm catching the moment you fall,
If it tastes like honey don't swallow it all, don't wait for the moment to come- and catch the sun.
Hey dude don't lean on me man, Cause I'm losing my direction and I can't understand, no no
Hey dude well I do what I can But you treat me like a woman when I feel like a man.
I was crossing the city one day, everybody was flashing by me Like images of tombstones, images of tombstones, On a Friday night I've seen everybody looking for their little bit of honey
To alleviate the pain, to alleviate the pain.
Well if it feels like summer don't burn in the sun, don't wait for the evening to fall, If it tastes like honey don't swallow it all, don't wait for the moment to come- and catch the sun.
No, no, n no, n no, no, etc.
When I feel like a man! Hey dude, etc...
I was younger once this guy came to me told me about all the honey out there.
He said "Honey gold jewels money women wine cars that shine."
I don't know what he was talking about but I think I had an idea.
He said "Smell the rose, sweet sweet rose, catch the sun find where it grows.
Smell the rose, the sweet sweet rose that grows on castle walls in heaven. In heaven yeah."
Well if it feels like summer you're catching the sun, and I'm catching the moment you fall,
If it tastes like honey don't swallow it all, don't wait for the moment to come- and catch the sun.
Hey dude don't lean on me man, Cause I'm losing my direction and I can't understand, no no
Hey dude well I do what I can But you treat me like a woman when I feel like a man.
I was crossing the city one day, everybody was flashing by me Like images of tombstones, images of tombstones, On a Friday night I've seen everybody looking for their little bit of honey
To alleviate the pain, to alleviate the pain.
Well if it feels like summer don't burn in the sun, don't wait for the evening to fall, If it tastes like honey don't swallow it all, don't wait for the moment to come- and catch the sun.
No, no, n no, n no, no, etc.
When I feel like a man! Hey dude, etc...
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Hey Dude Lyrics as written by Alonza Bevan Paul Winter-hart
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