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"
In a place you only dream of
Where your soul is always free
Silver stages, golden curtains
Filled my head, plain as can be
As a rainbow grew around the sun
All my stars of love who died
Came from somewhere beyond the scene you see
These lovely people played just for me
Now if I let you see this place
Where stories all ring true
Will you let me past your face
To see what's really you
It's not for me I ask these questions
As though I were a king
For you have to love, believe and feel
Before the burst of tambourines take you there
Green grass and high tides forever
Castles of stone souls and glory
Lost faces say we adore you
As kings and queens bow and play for you
Those who don't believe me
Find your souls and set them free
Those who do, believe and love
This time will be your key
Time and time again I've thanked them
For a piece of mind
They helped me find myself
Amongst the music and the rhyme
That enchants you there
Green grass and high tides forever
Castles of stone souls and glory
Lost faces say we adore you
As kings and queens bow and play for you
Yeah, they play just for you
Where your soul is always free
Silver stages, golden curtains
Filled my head, plain as can be
As a rainbow grew around the sun
All my stars of love who died
Came from somewhere beyond the scene you see
These lovely people played just for me
Now if I let you see this place
Where stories all ring true
Will you let me past your face
To see what's really you
It's not for me I ask these questions
As though I were a king
For you have to love, believe and feel
Before the burst of tambourines take you there
Green grass and high tides forever
Castles of stone souls and glory
Lost faces say we adore you
As kings and queens bow and play for you
Those who don't believe me
Find your souls and set them free
Those who do, believe and love
This time will be your key
Time and time again I've thanked them
For a piece of mind
They helped me find myself
Amongst the music and the rhyme
That enchants you there
Green grass and high tides forever
Castles of stone souls and glory
Lost faces say we adore you
As kings and queens bow and play for you
Yeah, they play just for you
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i think he is describing a lucid experience with herb. Often higher potency stuff can make things seem somewhat lucid. He is most likely describing an experience while listening to some of his favorite music. Most likely by fallen stars. And he is commenting on the healing power of their music with his depression. It should be noted the singer commited suicide. It really seems pretty clear he is either describing a high elatated experience involving music (something like rosetta stoned by tool but without the aliens) or just simply his love of music.
How do you sleep at night? Why make stuff up like that? Are you sick in the head? I bet you just feel a numb sensation in your head 24/7 that just does not seem to go away no matter what you do...those lucid experiences you talk about are probably your own excuses for how you think but, DO NOT make stuff up like dumb suicide comments about a guitar legend as great as Hughie Thomasson. If I was him, I'd haunt you if possible and knock some damn sense in your head. Moron!!!!!!!
What the hell man? Why would you even post something about a subject you clearly know NOTHING about? That's disrespectful. It makes it worse in this case that you're a moron because the Outlaws were one of the best bands of their time and Hughie Thomasson was without a doubt one of the best guitarists to ever touch the instrument, not to mention that two of the original members of this band did take their lives. RIP Billy Jones, Frank O'Keefe & Hughie Thomasson. High Tides Forever
some "doc" all these pysche doctors r just like this guy trying to explain what goes on in someone elses mind. U take what u want from a song and interpret it your own way. Hughie passed from this life unfortunately from a heart attack and was touring and singing right up to the end. I m sure the way he wanted to go. RIP HUGHIE!!!!!!