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 the man on the mountain, come on up
I'm the plowman in the valley with a face full of mud
Yes, I'm fumbling and I know my car don't start
Yes, I'm stumbling and I know I play a bad guitar
Give me little drink
From your loving cup
Just one drink and I'll fall down drunk yeah
I'm the man who walks the hillside in the sweet summer sun
I'm the man that brings you roses when you ain't got none
Well I can run and jump and fish, but I won't fight
You if you want to push and pull with me all night
Give me little drink
From you loving cup
Just one drink and I'll fall down drunk yeah
I feel so humble with you tonight
Just sitting in front of the fire
See your face dancing in the flame
Feel your mouth kissing me again
What a beautiful buzz, what a beautiful buzz
What a beautiful buzz, what a beautiful buzz
Oh, what a beautiful buzz, what a beautiful buzz
Yes, I am nitty gritty and my shirt's all torn
But I would love to spill the beans with you till dawn
Give me little drink
From your loving cup
Just one drink and I'll fall down drunk
Give me little drink
Give me little drink
Give me little drink
Give me little drink
Give me little drink
Give me little drink (keep on lovin', keep on lovin')
Give me little drink
Give me little drink (let's slow it down baby)
Give me little drink
Give me little drink
Give me little drink
Give me little drink
Give me little drink
Give me little drink
I'm the plowman in the valley with a face full of mud
Yes, I'm fumbling and I know my car don't start
Yes, I'm stumbling and I know I play a bad guitar
Give me little drink
From your loving cup
Just one drink and I'll fall down drunk yeah
I'm the man who walks the hillside in the sweet summer sun
I'm the man that brings you roses when you ain't got none
Well I can run and jump and fish, but I won't fight
You if you want to push and pull with me all night
Give me little drink
From you loving cup
Just one drink and I'll fall down drunk yeah
I feel so humble with you tonight
Just sitting in front of the fire
See your face dancing in the flame
Feel your mouth kissing me again
What a beautiful buzz, what a beautiful buzz
What a beautiful buzz, what a beautiful buzz
Oh, what a beautiful buzz, what a beautiful buzz
Yes, I am nitty gritty and my shirt's all torn
But I would love to spill the beans with you till dawn
Give me little drink
From your loving cup
Just one drink and I'll fall down drunk
Give me little drink
Give me little drink
Give me little drink
Give me little drink
Give me little drink
Give me little drink (keep on lovin', keep on lovin')
Give me little drink
Give me little drink (let's slow it down baby)
Give me little drink
Give me little drink
Give me little drink
Give me little drink
Give me little drink
Give me little drink
Lyrics submitted by spliphstar
Loving Cup Lyrics as written by Mick Jagger Keith Richards
Lyrics © Abkco Music Inc.
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I WOULD LOVE TO SPILL THE BEANS WITH YOU TILL DAWN.......THAT'S THE SHIT!!! BEEN THERE MANY A DRUNKARD NIGHTS.
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I thought it went like this... Well I can run and jump and fish, but I wont fight... You if you want to you can fuck with me all night....
Gimme a little drink...from your Loving Cup..
and the loving cup stands for the woman's vaginal cup
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You've hit the nail on the head there, PeeWee.
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yeah
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