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"
Drinking sparkling wine,
And sniffing glue.
I've been looking for some soft abuse.
Maybe your big brother,
He don't see it that way.
But he ain't the one, who tonight I'm gonna meet.
'Cause tonight, tonight, I swear, I'm heading down to make my stand.
With that other boy, you call your new man.
Way up from the bottom, I'm gonna hit the street.
And scare that child so hard, till he's out of your reach.
So you and I can leave now, while your other love's away.
I know you would never cheat with anyone but me.
Its easy now for you,
'Cause you don't have to choose,
And there ain't no way that he can touch you now.
My Sweet Marie.
My Sweet Marie.
You and I can go down where nobody else will be,
I know you will never cheat with anyone but me
There's nothing left to do
We're hidden out of view
And there ain't no way that they can reach us now.
Drinking sparkling wine and cheap perfume,
I've been lookin' for some soft abuse.
Baby your new boy, he don't see it that way.
But tonight, I swear, I'm gonna set that pussy bastard straight.
So you can I can leave now while your other love's away.
I know you could never cheat now with anyone but me.
Its easy now for you, 'cause you don't have to choose,
And there ain't no way that you can touch him now.
My Sweet Marie.
My Sweet Marie.
My Sweet Marie.
My Sweet Marie.
And sniffing glue.
I've been looking for some soft abuse.
Maybe your big brother,
He don't see it that way.
But he ain't the one, who tonight I'm gonna meet.
'Cause tonight, tonight, I swear, I'm heading down to make my stand.
With that other boy, you call your new man.
Way up from the bottom, I'm gonna hit the street.
And scare that child so hard, till he's out of your reach.
So you and I can leave now, while your other love's away.
I know you would never cheat with anyone but me.
Its easy now for you,
'Cause you don't have to choose,
And there ain't no way that he can touch you now.
My Sweet Marie.
My Sweet Marie.
You and I can go down where nobody else will be,
I know you will never cheat with anyone but me
There's nothing left to do
We're hidden out of view
And there ain't no way that they can reach us now.
Drinking sparkling wine and cheap perfume,
I've been lookin' for some soft abuse.
Baby your new boy, he don't see it that way.
But tonight, I swear, I'm gonna set that pussy bastard straight.
So you can I can leave now while your other love's away.
I know you could never cheat now with anyone but me.
Its easy now for you, 'cause you don't have to choose,
And there ain't no way that you can touch him now.
My Sweet Marie.
My Sweet Marie.
My Sweet Marie.
My Sweet Marie.
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