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"
What's the matter with me
I don't have much to say
Daylight sneakin' through the window
I'm still in this all-night cafe
Walkin' to and fro beneath the moon
Where the trucks are rollin' slow
Sit on this bank of sand
And watch the river flow
Wish I was back in the city
In my true love's arms
She like older men
They can't resist her charms
If I had wings and I could fly
I know where I would go
Right now I'll sit right here
Watch the river flow
People disappearing everywhere you look
Don't know where to draw the line
Only yesterday I seen somebody
Who was really in a bind
Oh, this ol' river keeps on rollin', though
Where it stop and where the wind might blow
I'll sit right here
And watch the river flow
People disappearing everywhere you look
Ever stop and wonder why
Only yesterday I seen somebody to say goodbye
This ol' river, keeps on rollin', though
Where it stop and where the wind might blow
I'll sit right here
And watch the river flow
I don't have much to say
Daylight sneakin' through the window
I'm still in this all-night cafe
Walkin' to and fro beneath the moon
Where the trucks are rollin' slow
Sit on this bank of sand
And watch the river flow
Wish I was back in the city
In my true love's arms
She like older men
They can't resist her charms
If I had wings and I could fly
I know where I would go
Right now I'll sit right here
Watch the river flow
People disappearing everywhere you look
Don't know where to draw the line
Only yesterday I seen somebody
Who was really in a bind
Oh, this ol' river keeps on rollin', though
Where it stop and where the wind might blow
I'll sit right here
And watch the river flow
People disappearing everywhere you look
Ever stop and wonder why
Only yesterday I seen somebody to say goodbye
This ol' river, keeps on rollin', though
Where it stop and where the wind might blow
I'll sit right here
And watch the river flow
Lyrics submitted by SexieSadie
Watching the River Flow Lyrics as written by Bob Dylan
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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