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"
We care a lot
We care a lot
We care a lot about disasters, fires, floods and killer bees
We care a lot about the NASA shuttle falling in the sea
We care a lot about starvation and the food that Live Aid bought
We care a lot about disease, baby Rock, Hudson, rock, yeah
We care a lot
We care a lot
We care a lot about the gamblers and the pushers and the freaks
We care a lot about the people who live on the street
We care a lot about the welfare of all the boys and girls
We care a lot about you people 'cause we're out to save the world, yeah
It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Its a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
We care a lot about the army, navy, air force and marines
We care a lot about the NY, SF and LAPD
We care a lot about you people
We care a lot about your guns
We care a lot about the wars you're fighting gee that looks like fun
We care a lot about the cabbage patch, the smurfs, and DMC
We care a lot about Madonna and we cop for Mr.T
We care a lot about the little things, the bigger things we top
We care a lot about you people yeah you bet we care a lot, yeah
It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Said, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
We care a lot
We care a lot about disasters, fires, floods and killer bees
We care a lot about the NASA shuttle falling in the sea
We care a lot about starvation and the food that Live Aid bought
We care a lot about disease, baby Rock, Hudson, rock, yeah
We care a lot
We care a lot
We care a lot about the gamblers and the pushers and the freaks
We care a lot about the people who live on the street
We care a lot about the welfare of all the boys and girls
We care a lot about you people 'cause we're out to save the world, yeah
It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Its a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
We care a lot about the army, navy, air force and marines
We care a lot about the NY, SF and LAPD
We care a lot about you people
We care a lot about your guns
We care a lot about the wars you're fighting gee that looks like fun
We care a lot about the cabbage patch, the smurfs, and DMC
We care a lot about Madonna and we cop for Mr.T
We care a lot about the little things, the bigger things we top
We care a lot about you people yeah you bet we care a lot, yeah
It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Said, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Lyrics submitted by jt, edited by AkaiEdge, boomgorilla
We Care A Lot Lyrics as written by Chuck Mosley Bill Gould
Lyrics © BIG THRILLING MUSIC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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