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"
there's a broken needle scratchin my 45 collection
through a burned out, blown 2-speaker combination
there's nothin left to do but crank it up loud
it's pumpin through my head and it's knockin me out
it doesn't really matter what's goin on now
cause all i wanna do is
keep the radio playin all night long
we left the radio playin all night long
because the radio's playin all my favorite songs
there's a broken CD player in the backseat of my car
next to the pieces of what's left from my first guitar
there's nothin left to do but crank it up loud
it's pumpin through my head and it's knockin me out
it doesn't really matter what's goin on now
cause all i wanna do is
keep the radio playin all night long
we left the radio playin all night long
because the radio's playin all my favorite songs
we left the radio playin all night long
we left the radio playin all night long
because the radio's playin all my favorite songs
some people say
that my radio is dead
but i won't let myself believe it
we left the radio playin all night long
we left the radio playin all night long
because the radio's playin all my favorite songs
we left the radio playin all night long
we left the radio playin all night long
because the radio's playin all my favorite songs
we left the radio playin all night long
we left the radio playin all night long
because the radio's playin all my favorite songs
we left the radio playin all night long (the radio, the radio)
we left the radio playin all night long (the radio, the radio)
because the radio's playin all my favorite songs (the radio, the radio songs)
through a burned out, blown 2-speaker combination
there's nothin left to do but crank it up loud
it's pumpin through my head and it's knockin me out
it doesn't really matter what's goin on now
cause all i wanna do is
keep the radio playin all night long
we left the radio playin all night long
because the radio's playin all my favorite songs
there's a broken CD player in the backseat of my car
next to the pieces of what's left from my first guitar
there's nothin left to do but crank it up loud
it's pumpin through my head and it's knockin me out
it doesn't really matter what's goin on now
cause all i wanna do is
keep the radio playin all night long
we left the radio playin all night long
because the radio's playin all my favorite songs
we left the radio playin all night long
we left the radio playin all night long
because the radio's playin all my favorite songs
some people say
that my radio is dead
but i won't let myself believe it
we left the radio playin all night long
we left the radio playin all night long
because the radio's playin all my favorite songs
we left the radio playin all night long
we left the radio playin all night long
because the radio's playin all my favorite songs
we left the radio playin all night long
we left the radio playin all night long
because the radio's playin all my favorite songs
we left the radio playin all night long (the radio, the radio)
we left the radio playin all night long (the radio, the radio)
because the radio's playin all my favorite songs (the radio, the radio songs)
Lyrics submitted by wiseaimee
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