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
Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on
I want to ramrod with you honey, 'til half-past dawn
Let your hair down mama and pick up this beat
Come on and meet me tonight down on Bluebird Street
I've been working all week, I'm up to my neck in hock
Come Saturday night I let my ramrod rock
She's a hot stepping hemi with a four on the floor
She's a roadrunner engine in a thirty-two Ford
Late at night when I'm dead on the line
I swear I think of your pretty face when I let her unwind
Well look over yonder see them city lights
Yeah, come on little dolly 'n' go ramroddin' tonight
Oh, well I said
Come on, come on, come on little baby
Come on, come on let's shake it tonight
Come on, come on, come on little sugar
Dance with your daddy and we'll go ramroddin' tonight
Oh yeah, baby
Hey, little dolly won't you say you will
Meet me tonight up on top of the hill
Well just a few miles cross the county line
There's a cute little chapel nestled down in the pines
Say you'll be mine little girl I'll put my foot to the floor
Give me the word now sugar, we'll go ramroddin' forever more
Oh, right
Yeah
Hey
Let's go
Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on
I want to ramrod with you honey, 'til half-past dawn
Let your hair down mama and pick up this beat
Come on and meet me tonight down on Bluebird Street
I've been working all week, I'm up to my neck in hock
Come Saturday night I let my ramrod rock
She's a hot stepping hemi with a four on the floor
She's a roadrunner engine in a thirty-two Ford
Late at night when I'm dead on the line
I swear I think of your pretty face when I let her unwind
Well look over yonder see them city lights
Yeah, come on little dolly 'n' go ramroddin' tonight
Oh, well I said
Come on, come on, come on little baby
Come on, come on let's shake it tonight
Come on, come on, come on little sugar
Dance with your daddy and we'll go ramroddin' tonight
Oh yeah, baby
Hey, little dolly won't you say you will
Meet me tonight up on top of the hill
Well just a few miles cross the county line
There's a cute little chapel nestled down in the pines
Say you'll be mine little girl I'll put my foot to the floor
Give me the word now sugar, we'll go ramroddin' forever more
Oh, right
Yeah
Hey
Let's go
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I can't believe only one comment. Personally I would stick this up there in the top 5 rock songs ever, especially the current live version he's playing.
Classic American Rock & Roll at it's exuberant best! Always puts me in a great mood!
Still discoverings Bruce his songs, however i saw a concert in 1985 , i never go deeply into his lyrics , Ramrod i like, good rock and roll , the meaning of ramrod ,well can imagine it..I wanna ramrod with you ;- )
Bruce amazes me to no end. Every single time I listen to him I draw deep emotional connections to some facet of his music, be it a song, album, or mere lyric, and sometimes even a simple strum of the guitar or melody coming from the keyboard. Or I'll suddenly recognize that Clarence's sax plays a much more powerful role in a song than I ever noticed before. The Boss made some very sophisticated music, timeless and purely from his heart and soul.
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this is amazingly good in everyway. the lyrics' theme is similar to pink cadillac in the way he uses the car and driving as a metaphor of sex.
Late at night when I'm dead on the line I swear I think of your pretty face when I let her unwind (he is masturbating)
I wanna ramrod with you honey, till half-past dawn (he wants to ram it in & out her untill half-past dawn)
If you don't want disgusting pictures in your head of his car-shaped penis you can just think about them driving around in the car with clothes on. The best thing about the lyrics is that you picture them doing both; driving around and having sex in his car, in high speed.