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"
"Joliet," she says, "is the darkest part of a man?
It's angry and slick
Into her letters writes
Through herself each time
She thinks of him
Trips her way down south
Into mystery's mouth
And he follows her there
It's what she doesn't say
That makes you want to stay
And try to comfort her
I talked to the cousins of people who knew you
I asked them the questions they expected to hear
Like maybe a killing went down in your town
Maybe it's the prison
Or the birth of barbed wire
"Joliet," she says, "is the darkest part of a man?
It's shaped like liberty's bell
Cracked and common law
And stretched out over its flaws
Like an ink-less well
The hanging judge in town
Records her comments down
She saves the crowd the truth -
And deals with it herself
Fills that hollow well
With nothing left to prove
I talked to mountains and streams that pushed through there
I talked to the trees that had no fruit to bear
To the colorless people that sat there
Beneath her
Curled up, stared
I talked to the cousins of people who knew you
I asked them the questions they expected to hear
Like maybe a killing went down in your town
Maybe it's the prison
Or the birth of barbed wire
Joliet
It's angry and slick
Into her letters writes
Through herself each time
She thinks of him
Trips her way down south
Into mystery's mouth
And he follows her there
It's what she doesn't say
That makes you want to stay
And try to comfort her
I talked to the cousins of people who knew you
I asked them the questions they expected to hear
Like maybe a killing went down in your town
Maybe it's the prison
Or the birth of barbed wire
"Joliet," she says, "is the darkest part of a man?
It's shaped like liberty's bell
Cracked and common law
And stretched out over its flaws
Like an ink-less well
The hanging judge in town
Records her comments down
She saves the crowd the truth -
And deals with it herself
Fills that hollow well
With nothing left to prove
I talked to mountains and streams that pushed through there
I talked to the trees that had no fruit to bear
To the colorless people that sat there
Beneath her
Curled up, stared
I talked to the cousins of people who knew you
I asked them the questions they expected to hear
Like maybe a killing went down in your town
Maybe it's the prison
Or the birth of barbed wire
Joliet
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
Joliet Lyrics as written by Jason Ross
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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