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"
well, who's that ridin, John the Revelator
tell me who's the ridin, John the Revelator
tell me who's that ridin, John the Revelator
wrote the book of the seventh seal
well, God walked down in the cool of the day
and he called Adam by his name
he refused to answer
'cause he was naked and ashamed
tell me who's that ridin, John the Revelator
tell me who's there ridin, John the Revelator
tell me who's there ridin, John the Revelator
wrote the book of the seventh seal
well, Christ had twelve apostles
and he led twelve away
said "walk with me one hour 'til
I go on and pray."
tell me who's that ridin, John the Revelator
tell me who's that ridin, John the Revelator
tell me who's that ridin, John the Revelator
wrote the book of the seventh seal
Christ came down Easter mornin
Mary and Martha came to see
said, "Go tell my disciples
meet me down in Galilee"
tell me who's that ridin, John the Revelator, etc.
tell me who's the ridin, John the Revelator
tell me who's that ridin, John the Revelator
wrote the book of the seventh seal
well, God walked down in the cool of the day
and he called Adam by his name
he refused to answer
'cause he was naked and ashamed
tell me who's that ridin, John the Revelator
tell me who's there ridin, John the Revelator
tell me who's there ridin, John the Revelator
wrote the book of the seventh seal
well, Christ had twelve apostles
and he led twelve away
said "walk with me one hour 'til
I go on and pray."
tell me who's that ridin, John the Revelator
tell me who's that ridin, John the Revelator
tell me who's that ridin, John the Revelator
wrote the book of the seventh seal
Christ came down Easter mornin
Mary and Martha came to see
said, "Go tell my disciples
meet me down in Galilee"
tell me who's that ridin, John the Revelator, etc.
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depeche mode has a song by the same title. both songs mention god, but have different lyrics. i wonder if there's any connection and who made John the Revalator first.
this is a cover of a blind willie johnson song.
Actually, the original was written and performed by Son House. Nonetheless, all versions of this song by DM, The Blues Brothers, BWJ, and everyone else are all variations of the original Son House song.
Indeed, and Depeche Mode's was basically just a blasphemous rape of the actual lyrics
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