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"
Smack dab in the middle of a situation overlooked by fools
Tables turned, lessons learned, you get burned for playing by the rules
Time is lost, that's the cost, oh brother, you get shit on the end
Scrape for a dollar, you'll die smilin', learnin' the same lessons once again
The goin' gets tough from the getgo go man go
Oh brother, not another motherfucker
Gotta go now
(Right dude?
That's right!)
The goin' gets tough from the getgo go man go
Oh brother, not another motherfucker
Gotta go now
(Isn't that right, dude?
That's right, Gener, so right)
The goin' gets tough from the getgo go man go
Oh brother, not another motherfucker
Gotta go now
(Isn't that right, Gener? Tell me, tell me the truth
You're right, tell me again)
The goin' gets tough from the getgo go man go
Oh brother, not another motherfucker
Gotta go now (oh, check it out)
The goin' gets tough from the getgo go man go
Oh brother, not another motherfucker
The goin' gets tough from the getgo go man go
Oh brother, oh, take it
Smack dab in the middle of a situation overlooked by fools
Tables turned, lessons learned, you get burned for playing by the rules
(You know that happens, Gener!
And I know!)
Time is lost, that's the cost, oh brother, you get shit on the end
Scrape for a dollar, you'll die smilin', learnin' the same lessons once again
The goin' gets tough from the getgo go man go
Oh brother, not another motherfucker
Gotta go now
(Once again)
The goin' gets tough from the getgo go man go
Oh brother, not another motherfucker
Gotta go now
I think it's over now, Gener! (Gotta go now)
Oh God!
Tables turned, lessons learned, you get burned for playing by the rules
Time is lost, that's the cost, oh brother, you get shit on the end
Scrape for a dollar, you'll die smilin', learnin' the same lessons once again
The goin' gets tough from the getgo go man go
Oh brother, not another motherfucker
Gotta go now
(Right dude?
That's right!)
The goin' gets tough from the getgo go man go
Oh brother, not another motherfucker
Gotta go now
(Isn't that right, dude?
That's right, Gener, so right)
The goin' gets tough from the getgo go man go
Oh brother, not another motherfucker
Gotta go now
(Isn't that right, Gener? Tell me, tell me the truth
You're right, tell me again)
The goin' gets tough from the getgo go man go
Oh brother, not another motherfucker
Gotta go now (oh, check it out)
The goin' gets tough from the getgo go man go
Oh brother, not another motherfucker
The goin' gets tough from the getgo go man go
Oh brother, oh, take it
Smack dab in the middle of a situation overlooked by fools
Tables turned, lessons learned, you get burned for playing by the rules
(You know that happens, Gener!
And I know!)
Time is lost, that's the cost, oh brother, you get shit on the end
Scrape for a dollar, you'll die smilin', learnin' the same lessons once again
The goin' gets tough from the getgo go man go
Oh brother, not another motherfucker
Gotta go now
(Once again)
The goin' gets tough from the getgo go man go
Oh brother, not another motherfucker
Gotta go now
I think it's over now, Gener! (Gotta go now)
Oh God!
Lyrics submitted by BeautifulDisaster
The Goin' Gets Tough from the Getgo Lyrics as written by Michael Melchiondo Aaron Freeman
Lyrics © DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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this song is amazing smack down in a situation overlooked by fools is ofcourse about how school and the man pushes to hard on you you forget your indigenous essential human moments emotions and feelings anyone who remembers isnt a fool they flush our humanity out of us and no one forget they took our clothes when we need them if anybody's with me my fucking screenname is ilikejazz123 and id love to conspire about the government with you time is lost thats the cost if you do play by thew conceptual rul.es they will drive you crazy any thoughtsy ou have they will cut yoeru brains out nobody forget and my phone numberi s 1310 650 1099 if you're a fucking creeper get the hell away from me YOU GET SHIT ON IN THE END
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This song sounds like something Gene and Dean came up with in 10 minutes, and yet... I can't NOT listen to it! It's so humorous with those silly voices and the way they keep going, "Isn't that right, Deaner?" "Oh, soo right." Quite funny.
^ lol.. take a breath, damn.