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"
Way on down to Southern Alabama
With the guitars jamming
That's where we're headed
Straight up to Butte, Montana
Singin' "Lord, I was born a ramblin' man"
California to Oregon
Even New York City
Got one or two hillbillies
Ready to hit the road
It's a brother and a sister kind of thing
Raise up your hands if you all wanna hang with
Me and my gang
We live to ride, we ride to live
Me and my gang
Jump on that train
Grab hold of them reins
We're gonna rock this thing
Cock this thing
Me and my gang, yeah
Yeah, me and my gang
We got hippies, gypsies, freaks and geeks
High class women in daisy duke denim
Bangin' on gongs and singing our songs
Dude named Elrock jammin' on an I-Pod
Beer and bonfires
Wide open throttle, Coors in a bottle
It's all for one and one for all, y'all
It's a brother and a sister kind of thing
Raise up your hands if you all wanna hang with
Me and my gang
We live to ride, we ride to live
Me and my gang
Jump on that train
Grab hold of them reins
We're gonna rock this thing
Cock this thing
Me and my gang, yeah, woo!
It's a brother and a sister kind of thing
Raise up your hands if you all wanna hang
With me and my gang
We live to ride, we ride to live
Me and my gang
Jump on that train
Grab hold of them reins
We're gonna rock this thing
Cock this thing
Yeah
Yeah, me and my gang
Jump on that train
Woo!
Grab hold of them reins, baby
With the guitars jamming
That's where we're headed
Straight up to Butte, Montana
Singin' "Lord, I was born a ramblin' man"
California to Oregon
Even New York City
Got one or two hillbillies
Ready to hit the road
It's a brother and a sister kind of thing
Raise up your hands if you all wanna hang with
Me and my gang
We live to ride, we ride to live
Me and my gang
Jump on that train
Grab hold of them reins
We're gonna rock this thing
Cock this thing
Me and my gang, yeah
Yeah, me and my gang
We got hippies, gypsies, freaks and geeks
High class women in daisy duke denim
Bangin' on gongs and singing our songs
Dude named Elrock jammin' on an I-Pod
Beer and bonfires
Wide open throttle, Coors in a bottle
It's all for one and one for all, y'all
It's a brother and a sister kind of thing
Raise up your hands if you all wanna hang with
Me and my gang
We live to ride, we ride to live
Me and my gang
Jump on that train
Grab hold of them reins
We're gonna rock this thing
Cock this thing
Me and my gang, yeah, woo!
It's a brother and a sister kind of thing
Raise up your hands if you all wanna hang
With me and my gang
We live to ride, we ride to live
Me and my gang
Jump on that train
Grab hold of them reins
We're gonna rock this thing
Cock this thing
Yeah
Yeah, me and my gang
Jump on that train
Woo!
Grab hold of them reins, baby
Lyrics submitted by katielovesyew2
Me and My Gang Lyrics as written by Tony Mullins Jon Stone
Lyrics © 3 RING CIRCUS MUSIC LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This is about letting loose and having fun. They aren't being discriminating, they just want to live life to its fullest.
This hs to be the dumbest fucking song ever. Yeah, these guys look like gangsters. I hate these guys.
Really? Like seriously? Gangsters? Wow some people really need to get their facts right.
This song is awsome...you guys are losers
well said, moonlight. can't believe these guys have any fans. how can you sing about "me and my gang" when you're just a rich prick. the worst part is that they actually make millions singing this bullshit.
watching rascal flatts perform this in front of a live crowd, (who were all singing the lyrics back to the band and dancing around) made me lose ALL faith in the human race.
whatever it is, cancer, AIDS, terrorism, anything....I hope the end comes soon.
I find it funny how you fucktards are looking at songs you hate and commenting about them. If you don't like it, keep it to yourself and move on. Some of us actually LIKE decent non-hip-hop-or-rap bullshit.
More than that if you can't appreciate a work of art don't walk by and spit on it.
you people all suck if you dont like these songs keep it to yourself this is some of the only good music out there and this is a really great song so go fuck off
Well said, Daxunyrr!!! claps
I think this song is one you can blast when you have your closest friends with you. I always imagine my 3 buddies riding in a car with me and all of us going on a long trip across the states just enjoying life to the max and worrying about nothing else.
This song seems to be talking about their travels around the world, and the importance of family " It's a brother and sister kind of thing can be taken in many different ways.
I think the real meaning of this song is about the band traveling one of them obviously has a sister and she is close to her brother he's a little bit over protective and of course "it's a brother and sister kind of thing" Meaning Close ness to where the brother is over protective and also the brother threatening the boyfriend "Cock this thing" Refers to a revolver pistol or other type of gun so it means you treat my sister right or I'll hurt you/Kill you!