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"
You say, "Come over baby
Come talk to me"
Then you drive me so crazy
And I can hardly see
If this keeps goin' on
I might just leave and not come back
I got one foot in your doorway, baby
I got one foot on the path
Well you beg me to stay
Then you order me to go
All this up and down
Is tearin' up my soul
And I wonder if our future
Is gonna look just like our past
I got one foot in your doorway, baby
I got one foot on the path
In the path
Now I love you, baby
Don't get me wrong
But this heart of mine
I may not be that strong
Man, you got me on you line
Reel me in or throw me back
I got one foot in your doorway, baby
Uuh, I got one foot on the path
Now, well, think about it, baby
Don't take too long
If we can't get it right, no, babe I'll just be movin' on
Well, I can't wait forever
To get this thing back on it's track
(On track)
I got one foot in your doorway, baby
I got one foot on the path
I got one foot in your doorway, baby
One foot on the path
Ouh, one foot on the path
Come talk to me"
Then you drive me so crazy
And I can hardly see
If this keeps goin' on
I might just leave and not come back
I got one foot in your doorway, baby
I got one foot on the path
Well you beg me to stay
Then you order me to go
All this up and down
Is tearin' up my soul
And I wonder if our future
Is gonna look just like our past
I got one foot in your doorway, baby
I got one foot on the path
In the path
Now I love you, baby
Don't get me wrong
But this heart of mine
I may not be that strong
Man, you got me on you line
Reel me in or throw me back
I got one foot in your doorway, baby
Uuh, I got one foot on the path
Now, well, think about it, baby
Don't take too long
If we can't get it right, no, babe I'll just be movin' on
Well, I can't wait forever
To get this thing back on it's track
(On track)
I got one foot in your doorway, baby
I got one foot on the path
I got one foot in your doorway, baby
One foot on the path
Ouh, one foot on the path
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It's pretty obvious what this song is about. Man, I love this song. I was in this same situation a few months back, my foot ended up going down the path. Me and my guitar teacher were just jamming to this song at lessons 2 days ago, Kenny is a great guitarists but I especially love his older stuff like this. I reccomend listening to his instrumental "While We Cry".