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"
Chorus:
My brain is just a jellyfish in the ocean of my head
‘Cause I drank too much tequila and I woke up seein’ red
Now all I really want from life is to crawl back into bed
On account that my brain is just a jellyfish in the ocean of my head
Well I woke up this mornin’ and the phone was ringing
My boss was talking just kept on squawkin’ like a vacuum cleaner
Like a barking dog like a headache screamin’ through my mental fog
So I pulled on my pants and headed towards the door
But the room began to spin and I fell to the floor
Almost made it to work but stopped along the way
Two girls said 'hey wanna come with us to Santa Fe?'
I said I’d love to but you see I’ve got to get to my job
That’s when they knocked me out and threw me in the back of their Saab
Well I work up somewhere around Pagosa Springs
Both of them lookin’ at me and gigglin’ and whisperin things
We arrived at their house a big adobe palace
I gave a lecherous look to the girl named Alice
I could tell right away that they both were willin’
But the next thing that happened wasn’t quite so thrillin’
They said first you’ve got to come up and meet Mary’s mom
But it wasn’t a mom more like an atom bomb hit and this came Out from where the earth was split Rollin’ pin in hand Gestapo Patch on arm she was mean and she was bound to do me some harm
So I run down the steps in the front of the house
Back to the highway I scurried like a mouse
Take off my backpack pull out some rum
Take a big long swig and sick out my thumb
Chorus
I arrived at work early the next morning they said 'Where you been? Cause the boss has been roaring.'
I said “never mind that, listen what I say, If you drink too much tequila
Stay at home the next day. And don’t mess with women from Santa Fe’.
My brain is just a jellyfish in the ocean of my head
‘Cause I drank too much tequila and I woke up seein’ red
Now all I really want from life is to crawl back into bed
On account that my brain is just a jellyfish in the ocean of my head
Well I woke up this mornin’ and the phone was ringing
My boss was talking just kept on squawkin’ like a vacuum cleaner
Like a barking dog like a headache screamin’ through my mental fog
So I pulled on my pants and headed towards the door
But the room began to spin and I fell to the floor
Almost made it to work but stopped along the way
Two girls said 'hey wanna come with us to Santa Fe?'
I said I’d love to but you see I’ve got to get to my job
That’s when they knocked me out and threw me in the back of their Saab
Well I work up somewhere around Pagosa Springs
Both of them lookin’ at me and gigglin’ and whisperin things
We arrived at their house a big adobe palace
I gave a lecherous look to the girl named Alice
I could tell right away that they both were willin’
But the next thing that happened wasn’t quite so thrillin’
They said first you’ve got to come up and meet Mary’s mom
But it wasn’t a mom more like an atom bomb hit and this came Out from where the earth was split Rollin’ pin in hand Gestapo Patch on arm she was mean and she was bound to do me some harm
So I run down the steps in the front of the house
Back to the highway I scurried like a mouse
Take off my backpack pull out some rum
Take a big long swig and sick out my thumb
Chorus
I arrived at work early the next morning they said 'Where you been? Cause the boss has been roaring.'
I said “never mind that, listen what I say, If you drink too much tequila
Stay at home the next day. And don’t mess with women from Santa Fe’.
Lyrics submitted by OiSterHedPhan
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