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"
I went to a party with my in the city
On election night
I was hoping everybody’d make a move to the left
But we gone and made a swing to the left
Now I’m singing the blues for the country
As we move into another long night
I’m gonna catch that plane and fly
Gonna sail on the next high tide
Just to get away from that cocksucker motherfucker
Darkening my mind
I stood in the corner throwing glances at the TV
I ripped the label off a bottle or nine
Some sucker rolled up in a beemer trailing streamers
And I nearly got into a fight
I said ‘you’re making a fool of the country holding hands with the Christian right’
Then I turned to my girl and I cried…
Gonna jump that train and ride
Sail on the next high tide
Just to get away from that cocksucker motherfucker
Playing on my mind and darkening our times
Ohh cocksucker motherfucker
Ohh motherfucker
Ooh cocksucker motherfucker
Well all of a sudden I got something to say
I buried my head but it wouldn’t go away
I sat around waiting for a brighter day
But the bad stuff’s coming when the good do nothing
It’s true…
So what am I gonna do?
Maybe backpack through Peru
Work for time on a farm in Timbucktoo?
To get away from that cocksucker motherfucker
Playing on my mind
The get away from that cocksucker motherfucker
Darkening our times
Ohh cocksucker motherfucker
Ohh motherfucker
Ooh cocksucker motherfucker
On election night
I was hoping everybody’d make a move to the left
But we gone and made a swing to the left
Now I’m singing the blues for the country
As we move into another long night
I’m gonna catch that plane and fly
Gonna sail on the next high tide
Just to get away from that cocksucker motherfucker
Darkening my mind
I stood in the corner throwing glances at the TV
I ripped the label off a bottle or nine
Some sucker rolled up in a beemer trailing streamers
And I nearly got into a fight
I said ‘you’re making a fool of the country holding hands with the Christian right’
Then I turned to my girl and I cried…
Gonna jump that train and ride
Sail on the next high tide
Just to get away from that cocksucker motherfucker
Playing on my mind and darkening our times
Ohh cocksucker motherfucker
Ohh motherfucker
Ooh cocksucker motherfucker
Well all of a sudden I got something to say
I buried my head but it wouldn’t go away
I sat around waiting for a brighter day
But the bad stuff’s coming when the good do nothing
It’s true…
So what am I gonna do?
Maybe backpack through Peru
Work for time on a farm in Timbucktoo?
To get away from that cocksucker motherfucker
Playing on my mind
The get away from that cocksucker motherfucker
Darkening our times
Ohh cocksucker motherfucker
Ohh motherfucker
Ooh cocksucker motherfucker
Lyrics submitted by hararch24
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these lyrics are not completely right, but to tell you the truth, i can't be bothered correcting them.
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