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"
If heaven was an hour, it would be twilight
When the fireflies start their dancin' on the lawn
And suppers on the stove, and mammas laughin'
And everybody's workin' day is done
If heaven was a town it would be my town
On a summer day in 1985
And everything I wanted was out there waitin'
And everyone I loved was still alive
Don't cry a tear for me now baby
There comes a time we all must say goodbye
And if that's what heavens made of
You know what I ain't afraid to die
If heaven was a pie it would be cherry
Cool and sweet and heavy on the top
And just one bite would satisfy your hunger
There'd always be enough for everyone
If heaven was a train it sure would be a fast one
To take this weary traveler round the bend
And if heaven was a tear it'd be my last one
And you'd be in my arms again
Don't cry a tear for me now baby
There comes a time we all must say goodbye
And if that's what heavens made of
You know what I ain't afraid to die
When the fireflies start their dancin' on the lawn
And suppers on the stove, and mammas laughin'
And everybody's workin' day is done
If heaven was a town it would be my town
On a summer day in 1985
And everything I wanted was out there waitin'
And everyone I loved was still alive
Don't cry a tear for me now baby
There comes a time we all must say goodbye
And if that's what heavens made of
You know what I ain't afraid to die
If heaven was a pie it would be cherry
Cool and sweet and heavy on the top
And just one bite would satisfy your hunger
There'd always be enough for everyone
If heaven was a train it sure would be a fast one
To take this weary traveler round the bend
And if heaven was a tear it'd be my last one
And you'd be in my arms again
Don't cry a tear for me now baby
There comes a time we all must say goodbye
And if that's what heavens made of
You know what I ain't afraid to die
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I lost my wife to cancer 3 years and this song reminded me so much of her that I played it at her funeral. I still get choked up about it every now and then. I don't necessarily believe you have to be religious to understand the significance of the song however. For me, it was that my wife so strongly battled the disease, yet expected no sympathy, and didn't want anyone feeling sorry for her. Her beliefs lead her to believe that this was just one step in her journey and she wasn't afraid of what was to come.
As like everybody else says when they're the first to comment on a song... I CAN'T BELIEVE NO ONE HAS COMMENTED ON THIS SONG YET! But really... this song is about somebody that has a certain time left to live his life... And he wants to reassure his loved ones that if Heaven is what it's made up to be, he's not afraid to leave his pain.
I know, i'm not one to beliave in a god or heaven, and heaven but, for the frist time i have found a country song about heavan that dosent suck.I think what he's saying is as long as you think about the good things in your life all the time, then you have no reason to fear death.i think this song is beauitful