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"
Slim lined sheik faced
Angel of the night
Riding like a cowboy
In the graveyard of the night
New York witch in the dungeon
Of the day
I'm trying to write my novel
But all you do is play
Mince pie dog-eye
Eagle on the wind
I'm searching through this garbage
Looking for a friend
Your uncle with an alligator
Chained to his leg
Dangles you your freedom
Then he offers you his bed
It seems to me to dream
Is something too wild
In Max's Kansas City
You a belladonna child
Riding on the highways
On the gateways to the south
You're talking with your boots
And you're walking with your mouth
Baby Boomerang
Baby Boomerang
You never spike a person
But you always bang the whole gang
Thank you ma'am
Angel of the night
Riding like a cowboy
In the graveyard of the night
New York witch in the dungeon
Of the day
I'm trying to write my novel
But all you do is play
Mince pie dog-eye
Eagle on the wind
I'm searching through this garbage
Looking for a friend
Your uncle with an alligator
Chained to his leg
Dangles you your freedom
Then he offers you his bed
It seems to me to dream
Is something too wild
In Max's Kansas City
You a belladonna child
Riding on the highways
On the gateways to the south
You're talking with your boots
And you're walking with your mouth
Baby Boomerang
Baby Boomerang
You never spike a person
But you always bang the whole gang
Thank you ma'am
Lyrics submitted by oofus, edited by hornytheclown
Baby Boomerang Lyrics as written by Marc Bolan
Lyrics © Spirit Music Group
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No matter what, Bolan seems to lay down everything pretty clearly. The narrator is in love with the girl and he clearly wants her. Maybe solely as a sexual partner, but I think the line "I'm trying to write my novel, but all you do is play" means he has planned out his dream relationship with her. But sadly she is living her own life (with other guys).
"I'm searching through this garbage, looking for a friend" might imply the narrator has dated and tried to find another woman, but nobody compares to Boomerang.
Bolan also details a bit of her life. She an "angel of the night" (which I assume means hooker). I think the "New York witch" line means she's tried to go straight, but she's not suited for a normal life. She doesn't seem to have many options. Even her family seems to take advantage of her. The end of the second verse seems to be Boomerang's uncle offering her a way out of this life. But as it turns out, he's only interested in her body, like everyone else (beside possibly the narrator).
At the end of the song, "It seems to me to dream is something too wild" might be the narrator relenting and realizing things aren't going to work out the way he would like. Boomerang is heading south (catching rides the only way she knows how). She might be leaving New York in a last ditch effort to finally go straight.
I think the name Baby Boomerang kind of creates a dual and sad reading of the female character as well. Like she is trapped in her lifestyle. It's the only thing that makes sense to her. She tries to go straight, but it never works out and she keeps coming back to her old life (which is where the boomerang reference comes from).
That might also be why she never "spikes" the narrator. This is inferring a lot, but Boomerang might have similar feeling for the narrator, so she doesn't have sex with him. The narrator is upset and confused by this and he exasperates his confusion during the chorus. Boomerang might be waiting for her life to get straighten out before she attempts a relationship. But that's just a wild guess.
In the end, I think the song is something many guys can relate with. A tale of unrequited love, where it seems everyone is finding love when you are being left behind.