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 just heard the sad song by another band sung by another man he gave me the once over twice I said when he said okay so long he hung me with the endless rope I could throw my lipstick and bracelets like gravel and move to alabama I got some more scotch instead then I died a thousand times he hung me with the endless rope then I died a thousand times maybe you don't but I do got a hole in my heart size of my heart size of my heart he hung me with the endless rope I'll see you and I'll raise you off the floor I'll floor you and we'll dance without a band I just heard the sad song hang another man he hung me with the endless rope
Lyrics submitted by punker87, edited by Mellow_Harsher
The Once Over Twice Lyrics as written by John Doe Exene Cervenka
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Some self-absorbed jerk in a band is pursuing the girl (presumably Exene) and when she shows some interest back (asking "when", as in, when can they see each other again) he ditches her ("okay so long") because he's in it for the chase, not the catch.
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being in a club and gettign hit on when your not with your partner and they get is a fight cuz he give here a guilt trip (hung me with the endless rope)
Hey, calculations ... that's probably the best analysis of lyrics on this entire web site. Seriously.