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"
Drivin' down the interstate
Runnin' thirty minutes late
Singin' Margaritaville and mindin' my own
Some foreign car drivin' dude with a road rage attitude
Pulled up beside me talking on his cell phone
He started yellin' at me like I did somethin' wrong
He flipped me the bird and then he was gone
Some beach
Somewhere
There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair
Palm trees are growin' and warm breezes blowin'
I picture myself right there
On some beach
Somewhere
I circled the parkin' lot tryin' to find a spot
Just big enough I could park my old truck
A man with a big cigar was gettin' into his car
I stopped and I waited for him to back up
But from out of no where a Mercedes Benz
Came cruisin' up and whipped right in
Some beach
Somewhere
There's no where to go when you got all day to get there
There's cold margaritas and hot Señoritas smiling with long dark hair
On some beach
Somewhere
Well, I sat in that waitin' room
It seemed like all afternoon
The nurse finally said doc's ready for you
You're not gonna feel a thing we'll give you some Novocaine
That tooth'll be fine in a minute or two
Then he stuck that needle down deep in my gum
And he started drillin' before I was numb
Some beach
Somewhere
There's a beautiful sunset burnin' up the atmosphere
There's music and dancin' and lovers romancin'
In the salty evenin' air
On some beach
Somewhere
On some beach
Somewhere
Runnin' thirty minutes late
Singin' Margaritaville and mindin' my own
Some foreign car drivin' dude with a road rage attitude
Pulled up beside me talking on his cell phone
He started yellin' at me like I did somethin' wrong
He flipped me the bird and then he was gone
Some beach
Somewhere
There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair
Palm trees are growin' and warm breezes blowin'
I picture myself right there
On some beach
Somewhere
I circled the parkin' lot tryin' to find a spot
Just big enough I could park my old truck
A man with a big cigar was gettin' into his car
I stopped and I waited for him to back up
But from out of no where a Mercedes Benz
Came cruisin' up and whipped right in
Some beach
Somewhere
There's no where to go when you got all day to get there
There's cold margaritas and hot Señoritas smiling with long dark hair
On some beach
Somewhere
Well, I sat in that waitin' room
It seemed like all afternoon
The nurse finally said doc's ready for you
You're not gonna feel a thing we'll give you some Novocaine
That tooth'll be fine in a minute or two
Then he stuck that needle down deep in my gum
And he started drillin' before I was numb
Some beach
Somewhere
There's a beautiful sunset burnin' up the atmosphere
There's music and dancin' and lovers romancin'
In the salty evenin' air
On some beach
Somewhere
On some beach
Somewhere
Lyrics submitted by PurrfectKitty5
Some Beach Lyrics as written by Paul Lester Overstreet Rory Lee Feek
Lyrics © Songtrust Ave, Anthem Entertainment
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Just what no one 2000 said. When I heard it on the radio, I though that's actually how that verse went.
Regardless, it's still a good song. Something near the top of my playlist when I'm not listening to grunge rock.