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"
Your house chased smells of sweets and cakes, strolled down around the bend. After rain, rising, springing. Aspiring to be a hill. I'd hang my hat in Hartford union. Strolling down the way to River Park, around the bend. Like gentle stemmed flowers we bloomed where we planted, so seasonal like sand. I'd hang my head in.
Lyrics submitted by oofus
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i have no idea what this song means, but E. Texas Ave. is a real street in milwaukee...
@deetdoot The Promise Ring are from Milwaukee, so it's probably that street. They also sing about Hartford Union, which is apparently a school in Hartford, just outside of Milwaukee!
this is the only promise ring song i've heard and i like it alot. i need to listen to more of them.
they're a great band. lots of emotion in this song. i have no idea what it means.
definitely a different (but great) sound from the promise ring on the song, and it originally got me into the band, so i'll always enjoy this song the most!
i think that this song is basically just davey thinking about a recnelty neded realtionship. alot of plays on words here, so it's hard to say what it's exactly about.
i can remember buying this record on a 7" single when i was about 19 i think, I loved TITR at the time and i still do and admittedly hadn't heard TPR before except for in passing at friends houses or whatever and I didn't listen to E.Texas avenue for a few months after I'd got it but when i did it, it blew me away and I've loved the promise ring ever since. Anyways, I just signed up to tell that interesting story haha.