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"
Like this
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Ain't got a hope in hell
Of puttin' my pieces back together again
I've seen things in my life that should never be seen
I'm talkin' things that'd make your skin crawl
I want to go back to a simpler time
Where nothin' really mattered at all
You see, I can't sleep all night long
Tossin' and a-turnin'
Thoughts they keep a-churnin'
I can't sleep all night long
As a matter of fact
I just want to get back
Back to the rockin' horse
Back to where it all began
Take me back, back to the rockin' horse
And start all over again, get back
Parents think I'm crazy
And the doctor says I cracked
But they don't understand me
'Cause I just want to go back
You see I can't sleep all night long
Tossin' and a-turnin
Thoughts they keep a-churnin'
I can't sleep all night long
As a matter of fact
I just want to get back
Back to the rockin' horse
Back to where it all began
Take me back, back to the rockin' horse
And start all over again, one time
Well, the whole world thinks I'm crazy
And the doctor says I cracked
But they don't understand me, no
'Cause I just want to go back
You see, I can't sleep all night long
Tossin' and a-turnin'
Thoughts they keep a-churnin'
I can't sleep all night long
As a matter of fact
I just want to get back
Back to the rockin' horse
Back to where it all began
Take me back, back to the rockin' horse
And start all over again, get back
Getting back, back to the rockin' horse
Back to where it all began
Take me back, back to the rockin' horse
And start all over again like this
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Ain't got a hope in hell
Of puttin' my pieces back together again
I've seen things in my life that should never be seen
I'm talkin' things that'd make your skin crawl
I want to go back to a simpler time
Where nothin' really mattered at all
You see, I can't sleep all night long
Tossin' and a-turnin'
Thoughts they keep a-churnin'
I can't sleep all night long
As a matter of fact
I just want to get back
Back to the rockin' horse
Back to where it all began
Take me back, back to the rockin' horse
And start all over again, get back
Parents think I'm crazy
And the doctor says I cracked
But they don't understand me
'Cause I just want to go back
You see I can't sleep all night long
Tossin' and a-turnin
Thoughts they keep a-churnin'
I can't sleep all night long
As a matter of fact
I just want to get back
Back to the rockin' horse
Back to where it all began
Take me back, back to the rockin' horse
And start all over again, one time
Well, the whole world thinks I'm crazy
And the doctor says I cracked
But they don't understand me, no
'Cause I just want to go back
You see, I can't sleep all night long
Tossin' and a-turnin'
Thoughts they keep a-churnin'
I can't sleep all night long
As a matter of fact
I just want to get back
Back to the rockin' horse
Back to where it all began
Take me back, back to the rockin' horse
And start all over again, get back
Getting back, back to the rockin' horse
Back to where it all began
Take me back, back to the rockin' horse
And start all over again like this
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Back To The Rocking Horse Lyrics as written by Bret Michaels Bobby Dall
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