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"
Hey Mr. Music
Ya sure sound good to me
I can't refuse it
What got to be, got to be
Feel like dancing
Dance 'cause we are free
I got my home
In the promise land
But I feel at home
Can you understand
Said the road is rocky
Sure feels good to me
And if your lucky
Together we'd always be
I will ride it
The sun is a risin'
The sign is a rising
Are you really riding?
Are you really riding?
Are you really riding?
Are you really riding?
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
Hey Mr. Music
Ya sure sound good to me
I can't refuse it
We got to be, got to be
Feel like dancing
Dance 'cause we are free
I got my home
In the promise land
I feel at home
Can you understand
Said the road is rocky
Sure feels good to me
And if I'm lucky
Together we'd always be
I will ride it
The sun is a risin'
The sun is a risin'
Moon is a risin'
I will ride it
I will ride it
I will ride it
I will ride it
And though the road is rocky
Sure feels good to me
And if I'm lucky
Together we'd always be
I will ride it
Rainbow country
Rainbow yountry
Rainbow country
Sun is a risin'
Sun is a risin'
Moon is a risin'
Sun is a risin'
Sun is a risin'
Sun is a risin'
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
Sayin', hey Mr. Music
Sure sound good to me
I can't refuse it
'Cause, what have we got to be
Feel like dancing
Dance 'cause we are free
I got my own
In the promise land
Feel at home
Can you understand
And though the road is rocky
Sure feels good to me
And if I'm lucky
Together we'd always be
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
Ya sure sound good to me
I can't refuse it
What got to be, got to be
Feel like dancing
Dance 'cause we are free
I got my home
In the promise land
But I feel at home
Can you understand
Said the road is rocky
Sure feels good to me
And if your lucky
Together we'd always be
I will ride it
The sun is a risin'
The sign is a rising
Are you really riding?
Are you really riding?
Are you really riding?
Are you really riding?
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
Hey Mr. Music
Ya sure sound good to me
I can't refuse it
We got to be, got to be
Feel like dancing
Dance 'cause we are free
I got my home
In the promise land
I feel at home
Can you understand
Said the road is rocky
Sure feels good to me
And if I'm lucky
Together we'd always be
I will ride it
The sun is a risin'
The sun is a risin'
Moon is a risin'
I will ride it
I will ride it
I will ride it
I will ride it
And though the road is rocky
Sure feels good to me
And if I'm lucky
Together we'd always be
I will ride it
Rainbow country
Rainbow yountry
Rainbow country
Sun is a risin'
Sun is a risin'
Moon is a risin'
Sun is a risin'
Sun is a risin'
Sun is a risin'
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
Sayin', hey Mr. Music
Sure sound good to me
I can't refuse it
'Cause, what have we got to be
Feel like dancing
Dance 'cause we are free
I got my own
In the promise land
Feel at home
Can you understand
And though the road is rocky
Sure feels good to me
And if I'm lucky
Together we'd always be
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
Rainbow country
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i reallllly love this song. I'm half jamaican on my father's side and my parents split when i was little but my mum made sure i was rightfully immersed in the culture because she understood the beauty in it. this song is it, man. pure bliss all the way through. "Though the road is rocky, sure feels good to me." i love that line.