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"
João Roberto era o maioral
O nosso Johnny era um cara legal
Ele tinha um Opala metálico azul
Era o rei dos pegas na Asa Sul
E em todo lugar
Quando ele pegava no violão
Conquistava as meninas
E quem mais quisesse ter
Sabia tudo da Janis
Do Led Zeppelin, dos Beatles e dos Rolling Stones
Mas de uns tempos pra cá
Meio que sem querer
Alguma coisa aconteceu
Johnny andava meio quieto demais
Só que quase ninguém percebeu
Johnny estava com um sorriso estranho
Quando marcou um super pega no fim de semana
Não vai ser no CASEB
Nem no Lago Norte, nem na UnB
As máquinas prontas
E o ronco de motor
A cidade inteira se movimentou
E Johnny disse "eu vou pra curva do Diabo
Em Sobradinho, e vocês?"
E os motores saíram ligados a mil
Pra estrada da morte o maior pega que existiu
Só deu para ouvir, foi aquela explosão
E os pedaços do Opala azul de Johnny pelo chão
No dia seguinte, falou o diretor
"O aluno João Roberto não está mais entre nós
Ele só tinha dezesseis
Que isso sirva de aviso pra vocês"
E na saída da aula foi estranho e bonito
Todo o mundo cantando baixinho
Strawberry Fields Forever
Strawberry Fields Forever
E até hoje, quem se lembra
Diz que não foi o caminhão
Nem a curva fatal
E nem a explosão
Johnny era fera demais
Pra vacilar assim
E o que dizem que foi tudo
Por causa de um coração partido
Um coração
Um coração
Um coração
Um coração
Um coração
Bye, bye bye Johnny
Johnny, bye, bye
Bye, bye Johnny
Bye, bye bye Johnny
Johnny, bye, bye
Bye, bye Johnny
Bye, bye bye Johnny
Johnny, bye, bye
Bye, bye Johnny
Bye, bye bye Johnny
Johnny, bye, bye
Bye, bye Johnny
O nosso Johnny era um cara legal
Ele tinha um Opala metálico azul
Era o rei dos pegas na Asa Sul
E em todo lugar
Quando ele pegava no violão
Conquistava as meninas
E quem mais quisesse ter
Sabia tudo da Janis
Do Led Zeppelin, dos Beatles e dos Rolling Stones
Mas de uns tempos pra cá
Meio que sem querer
Alguma coisa aconteceu
Johnny andava meio quieto demais
Só que quase ninguém percebeu
Johnny estava com um sorriso estranho
Quando marcou um super pega no fim de semana
Não vai ser no CASEB
Nem no Lago Norte, nem na UnB
As máquinas prontas
E o ronco de motor
A cidade inteira se movimentou
E Johnny disse "eu vou pra curva do Diabo
Em Sobradinho, e vocês?"
E os motores saíram ligados a mil
Pra estrada da morte o maior pega que existiu
Só deu para ouvir, foi aquela explosão
E os pedaços do Opala azul de Johnny pelo chão
No dia seguinte, falou o diretor
"O aluno João Roberto não está mais entre nós
Ele só tinha dezesseis
Que isso sirva de aviso pra vocês"
E na saída da aula foi estranho e bonito
Todo o mundo cantando baixinho
Strawberry Fields Forever
Strawberry Fields Forever
E até hoje, quem se lembra
Diz que não foi o caminhão
Nem a curva fatal
E nem a explosão
Johnny era fera demais
Pra vacilar assim
E o que dizem que foi tudo
Por causa de um coração partido
Um coração
Um coração
Um coração
Um coração
Um coração
Bye, bye bye Johnny
Johnny, bye, bye
Bye, bye Johnny
Bye, bye bye Johnny
Johnny, bye, bye
Bye, bye Johnny
Bye, bye bye Johnny
Johnny, bye, bye
Bye, bye Johnny
Bye, bye bye Johnny
Johnny, bye, bye
Bye, bye Johnny
Lyrics submitted by defubuskorn
Dezesseis/Música Incidental: Strawberry Fields Forever Lyrics as written by Marcelo Augusto Bonfa Eduardo Dutra Villa Lobos
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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