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"
Well now Crow Jane don’t make no sense to me
She left me hanging from the poplar tree
No I never ever felt so free
Look at, mama, what you’re doin’ to me
'Cause it ain’t no difference which way I smile
I ain’t good lookin’ from a quarter mile
Once had a women called me angel child
My reputation keeps me on trial
But who’s gonna save me from myself
Gotta lay the blame on someone else
Somehow I ain’t got no hope
'Cause I’m still runnin’ from the sheriff’s rope
My shoes don’t fit me 'cause they're filled with dope
Crow Jane quit me and I just can’t cope
But all I know is that I’ll still run
And pledge allegiance to the settin’ sun
I must’ve lost 'cause Crow Jane won
I’ll never learn from anything I’ve done
Crow Jane’s the strangest thing that ever talked
Lips of honey but her tongue's of chalk
Feet may be crooked but they sure can walk
Took my money left me in shock
Got so many matches that it makes me sick
So many habits that I just can’t kick
So many women that I just can’t trick
She burnt me like a candle stick
But who’s gonna save me from myself?
Gotta lay the blame on somebody else
But somehow I ain’t got no hope
'Cause I’m still runnin’ from the sheriff’s rope
My shoes don’t fit me 'cause they're filled with dope
Crow Jane quit me and I just can’t cope
But all I know is that I’ll still run
And pledge allegiance to the settin’ sun
I must've lost 'cause Crow Jane won
I’ll never learn from anything I’ve done
Well Crow Jane ain’t nothing but a painful case
She left me sucking on my own disgrace
She’s off trucking at a cheatin’ pace
And a lawless life is all that I can embrace
Dress like a preacher so I can’t be found
Chase Crow Jane from town to town
I smell her brain so she much be around
Just like my pain the sun goes down
But who’s gonna save me from myself
Gotta lay the blame on someone else
Somehow I ain’t got no hope
'Cause I’m still runnin’ from the sheriff’s rope
My shoes don’t fit me 'cause they're filled with dope
Crow Jane quit me and I just can’t cope
But all I know is that I’ll still run
And pledge allegiance to the settin’ sun
I must’ve lost 'cause Crow Jane won
I’ll never learn from anything I’ve done
She left me hanging from the poplar tree
No I never ever felt so free
Look at, mama, what you’re doin’ to me
'Cause it ain’t no difference which way I smile
I ain’t good lookin’ from a quarter mile
Once had a women called me angel child
My reputation keeps me on trial
But who’s gonna save me from myself
Gotta lay the blame on someone else
Somehow I ain’t got no hope
'Cause I’m still runnin’ from the sheriff’s rope
My shoes don’t fit me 'cause they're filled with dope
Crow Jane quit me and I just can’t cope
But all I know is that I’ll still run
And pledge allegiance to the settin’ sun
I must’ve lost 'cause Crow Jane won
I’ll never learn from anything I’ve done
Crow Jane’s the strangest thing that ever talked
Lips of honey but her tongue's of chalk
Feet may be crooked but they sure can walk
Took my money left me in shock
Got so many matches that it makes me sick
So many habits that I just can’t kick
So many women that I just can’t trick
She burnt me like a candle stick
But who’s gonna save me from myself?
Gotta lay the blame on somebody else
But somehow I ain’t got no hope
'Cause I’m still runnin’ from the sheriff’s rope
My shoes don’t fit me 'cause they're filled with dope
Crow Jane quit me and I just can’t cope
But all I know is that I’ll still run
And pledge allegiance to the settin’ sun
I must've lost 'cause Crow Jane won
I’ll never learn from anything I’ve done
Well Crow Jane ain’t nothing but a painful case
She left me sucking on my own disgrace
She’s off trucking at a cheatin’ pace
And a lawless life is all that I can embrace
Dress like a preacher so I can’t be found
Chase Crow Jane from town to town
I smell her brain so she much be around
Just like my pain the sun goes down
But who’s gonna save me from myself
Gotta lay the blame on someone else
Somehow I ain’t got no hope
'Cause I’m still runnin’ from the sheriff’s rope
My shoes don’t fit me 'cause they're filled with dope
Crow Jane quit me and I just can’t cope
But all I know is that I’ll still run
And pledge allegiance to the settin’ sun
I must’ve lost 'cause Crow Jane won
I’ll never learn from anything I’ve done
Lyrics submitted by Ves1011, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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