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 you don't see no punks in downtown
Do you know this town is dying quick?
(It's just no good)
I'll get it to you in this now
You'll have a trouble finding goddamn prostitutes
In this gutter town
The girls are stingy, and guys are broke
In this gutter town
You will be always dying for a poke
In this gutter town
The logical balance is absurd
And in this gutter town
The women they never get wet
And in this gutter town
Music is only [unverified]
And in this gutter town
Oh
So that's when I pull over a taxi-co
With my new friends from Mexico
And with limited [unverified]
We started new punk rock Parranda
(Ohh punk! Punk!)
If music doesn't come from windows
You know that something's definitely wrong
(It's fucking wrong)
And all the cars, they pass in silence
And if there is no guitar in a house
You know its owner, he cannot be trusted
And if there is no drum set in the office
Don't be surprised when the business get busted
And if your spouse doesn't play a sitar
Don't expect a whole lot of commitment
And if President doesn't play the sax
He will not get an under-table treatment
And in this gutter town
Say you kick somebody in the head
They just, they likely sue you
But man, they don't get mad
So that's when I pull over a taxi-co
With my new friends from Mexico
And with limited [unverified]
We started new samba
And in this gutter town
The logical balance is absurd
And in this gutter town
The women they never get wet
Do you know this town is dying quick?
(It's just no good)
I'll get it to you in this now
You'll have a trouble finding goddamn prostitutes
In this gutter town
The girls are stingy, and guys are broke
In this gutter town
You will be always dying for a poke
In this gutter town
The logical balance is absurd
And in this gutter town
The women they never get wet
And in this gutter town
Music is only [unverified]
And in this gutter town
Oh
So that's when I pull over a taxi-co
With my new friends from Mexico
And with limited [unverified]
We started new punk rock Parranda
(Ohh punk! Punk!)
If music doesn't come from windows
You know that something's definitely wrong
(It's fucking wrong)
And all the cars, they pass in silence
And if there is no guitar in a house
You know its owner, he cannot be trusted
And if there is no drum set in the office
Don't be surprised when the business get busted
And if your spouse doesn't play a sitar
Don't expect a whole lot of commitment
And if President doesn't play the sax
He will not get an under-table treatment
And in this gutter town
Say you kick somebody in the head
They just, they likely sue you
But man, they don't get mad
So that's when I pull over a taxi-co
With my new friends from Mexico
And with limited [unverified]
We started new samba
And in this gutter town
The logical balance is absurd
And in this gutter town
The women they never get wet
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should be:
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