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"
The steaks are getting cold on the table
I've got the TV on to "That's Incredible"
Every other woman is hot apple pie
so why isn't he home on time?
He's working late
And there aint nothin in the world that you can do
to bring him home to you
'cause when he says he's working late..
Oh lord, when we first moved in together
he just couldn't wait
to hold me in his arms
so he'd never hesitate
talk in words love, make me feel like a little girl
well now his living in another world
he's working late
and there aint nothin in the world that you can do
to bring him home to you
'cause when he says he's working late..
You give him all the love you could
and sometimes i give alone
you think he's looking for something he can't find at home
well tomorrow night, lets not go home
-harmonica-
I just go home, hang out by the tv set
there aint no more shows on and he aint home yet
try to close my eyes, and tell myself
that he would never fall in love with someone else
he's working late
and there aint nothin in the world that you can do
to bring him home to you
'cause when he says he's working..
he's working late
and there aint nothin in the world that you can do
to bring him home to you
'cause when he says he's..
he's working late - oh i know he's working
he's working late - then he just better be working late
I've got the TV on to "That's Incredible"
Every other woman is hot apple pie
so why isn't he home on time?
He's working late
And there aint nothin in the world that you can do
to bring him home to you
'cause when he says he's working late..
Oh lord, when we first moved in together
he just couldn't wait
to hold me in his arms
so he'd never hesitate
talk in words love, make me feel like a little girl
well now his living in another world
he's working late
and there aint nothin in the world that you can do
to bring him home to you
'cause when he says he's working late..
You give him all the love you could
and sometimes i give alone
you think he's looking for something he can't find at home
well tomorrow night, lets not go home
-harmonica-
I just go home, hang out by the tv set
there aint no more shows on and he aint home yet
try to close my eyes, and tell myself
that he would never fall in love with someone else
he's working late
and there aint nothin in the world that you can do
to bring him home to you
'cause when he says he's working..
he's working late
and there aint nothin in the world that you can do
to bring him home to you
'cause when he says he's..
he's working late - oh i know he's working
he's working late - then he just better be working late
Lyrics submitted by Ice
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