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"
I married a man oh then
I married a man oh then
I married a man he was the plague of my life
And I wish I was single again
I wish I was single again
Cause when I was single, my pockets did jingle and I wish I was single again
He beat me and banged me oh then
He beat me and banged me oh then
He beat me and banged me he swore he would hang me and I wish I was single again
He went for the rope oh then
He went for the rope oh then
He went for the rope and I think I was broke
And then I wish I was single again
Cause when I was single, my pockets did jingle and I wish I was single again
My husband he died oh then
My husband he died oh then
My husband he died and I laughed till I cried to think I was single again
I married another oh then
I married another oh then
I married another he was the devil's grandfather and I wish I was single again
He beat me and banged me oh then
He beat me and banged me oh then
He beat me and banged me he swore he would hang me and I wish I was single again
I married a man oh then
I married a man he was the plague of my life
And I wish I was single again
I wish I was single again
Cause when I was single, my pockets did jingle and I wish I was single again
He beat me and banged me oh then
He beat me and banged me oh then
He beat me and banged me he swore he would hang me and I wish I was single again
He went for the rope oh then
He went for the rope oh then
He went for the rope and I think I was broke
And then I wish I was single again
Cause when I was single, my pockets did jingle and I wish I was single again
My husband he died oh then
My husband he died oh then
My husband he died and I laughed till I cried to think I was single again
I married another oh then
I married another oh then
I married another he was the devil's grandfather and I wish I was single again
He beat me and banged me oh then
He beat me and banged me oh then
He beat me and banged me he swore he would hang me and I wish I was single again
Lyrics submitted by starcastic
Single Again Lyrics as written by Matthew Friedberger Eleanor Friedberger
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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She hates the relationships she gets herself into, but does that cause her the stop? No. She needs them
she sure does know how to pick 'em har har har
i love this song
This is an old folk song that’s been around in the US for over 100 years. It usually is sung by a man about a wife though.
seems this chick has relationship issues.
cool ass song though!
Cool song..but fucking weird
pretty harsh, are they all metaphors??
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