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"
each friday night
i've gotta moan
cause it's not right
to be alone
and i'm alone
and so i sleep
wake up at dawn
and leave before
the moon is gone
i know it's wrong
wr-o-o-ong
i've got to find some way out of here
jump on a plane and i disappear
maybe east of ohio
maybe that's where i ought to go
cause living here i've got so down
i guess that's why i've got to leave town
to find some place i haven't found
cause i know that you'll be there waiting
back, back, honey
take me back, baby
i want to stay in l.a.
back, back, baby
take me back, sugar
i want to stay
when i get home
the house is dark
the only sound
is joey's bark
been looking for another place a while
seen every town up in northern cal.
searching further every country mile
i saw new york and i like it's style
but still i've gotta say i love l.a.
i guess that's why i feel i've gotta stay
the hot streets and the summer nights
so lonely
[ "back, back" chorus ]
i know it's sad but i love l.a.
it's even sadder that i'm here to stay
i might vacation on an isle away
but this is where i'll spend my dying day
so now it's time for me get me a wife
and live in town with her for all of my life
i'll understand when my hair turns grey
why i
i live
in l.a.
i've gotta moan
cause it's not right
to be alone
and i'm alone
and so i sleep
wake up at dawn
and leave before
the moon is gone
i know it's wrong
wr-o-o-ong
i've got to find some way out of here
jump on a plane and i disappear
maybe east of ohio
maybe that's where i ought to go
cause living here i've got so down
i guess that's why i've got to leave town
to find some place i haven't found
cause i know that you'll be there waiting
back, back, honey
take me back, baby
i want to stay in l.a.
back, back, baby
take me back, sugar
i want to stay
when i get home
the house is dark
the only sound
is joey's bark
been looking for another place a while
seen every town up in northern cal.
searching further every country mile
i saw new york and i like it's style
but still i've gotta say i love l.a.
i guess that's why i feel i've gotta stay
the hot streets and the summer nights
so lonely
[ "back, back" chorus ]
i know it's sad but i love l.a.
it's even sadder that i'm here to stay
i might vacation on an isle away
but this is where i'll spend my dying day
so now it's time for me get me a wife
and live in town with her for all of my life
i'll understand when my hair turns grey
why i
i live
in l.a.
Lyrics submitted by x_melancholy_x
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i've got to find some way out of here jump on a plane and i disappear maybe east of ohio maybe that's where i ought to go
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