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"
Fallin' asleep at the wheel again baby,
You're driftin' over the line.
You're hands are tied, but you're losin' grip quickly
Fix me, can you read the sign!
Thumbin' your way to Vegas, dirty
Dreamin' of the other side!
Save your tears and laughter because
It doesn't matter what you find
It ain't pretty
After the show
It ain't pretty when the pretty leaves you
With no place to go.
So, if you think you need it,
Here's the place to feed it
It ain't pretty.
When, everything that you do is wrong,
And you
Feel like you can barely survive
When those around you
Are crumblin' downwards
Buried in the sunset of life.
Thumbin' your way to Vegas, dirty
And screamin' like a bitch from hell,
Save your dreams
Up your patience
Doesn't matter what you sell
It ain't pretty
After the show
It ain't pretty when the pretty leaves you
With no place to go!
So, if you think you want it!
Here's the place to get it,
It ain't pretty
Yeah, yeah, yeah
It ain't pretty
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Thumbin' your way to Vegas, dirty
Dreamin' like you're out of control,
Save your tears and laughter
Because this is the ride
And this is the show
It ain't pretty
After the show!
It ain't pretty when the pretty leaves you
With no place to go
So, if you think you want it
Just come in and get it
It ain't pretty
You're driftin' over the line.
You're hands are tied, but you're losin' grip quickly
Fix me, can you read the sign!
Thumbin' your way to Vegas, dirty
Dreamin' of the other side!
Save your tears and laughter because
It doesn't matter what you find
It ain't pretty
After the show
It ain't pretty when the pretty leaves you
With no place to go.
So, if you think you need it,
Here's the place to feed it
It ain't pretty.
When, everything that you do is wrong,
And you
Feel like you can barely survive
When those around you
Are crumblin' downwards
Buried in the sunset of life.
Thumbin' your way to Vegas, dirty
And screamin' like a bitch from hell,
Save your dreams
Up your patience
Doesn't matter what you sell
It ain't pretty
After the show
It ain't pretty when the pretty leaves you
With no place to go!
So, if you think you want it!
Here's the place to get it,
It ain't pretty
Yeah, yeah, yeah
It ain't pretty
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Thumbin' your way to Vegas, dirty
Dreamin' like you're out of control,
Save your tears and laughter
Because this is the ride
And this is the show
It ain't pretty
After the show!
It ain't pretty when the pretty leaves you
With no place to go
So, if you think you want it
Just come in and get it
It ain't pretty
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