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"
She grew up just north of privileged
Where pink and perfect were sold
A cheap guitar and a shooting star
In Pensacola we watched as she drew wings of gold
She'll take you east out of San Bernardino
Straight up to 129
A simple dare and a secret square
In the casino we laughed as nightfall lit up the sky
Well, don't you see?
Glitter and twang
She's out to
Glitter and twang for your heart
Well, don't you see?
Glitter and twang
She's out to
Glitter and twang for your heart
For your heart
She sings the song that she wrote me
I've got it stuck in my head
Broadway and Main and a ticket to Spain
She quotes the pillow queen and makes the trundle bed
She said she'd like to see Dale Dauntless
And the Double-D ranch
A steeplechase and a lipstick trace
Dressed up like honeybees and we're taking a chance
Well, don't you see?
Glitter and twang
She's out to
Glitter and twang for your heart
Well, don't you see?
Glitter and twang
She's out to
Glitter and twang for your heart
For your heart
There are ten plagues of Egypt
Nine planets that circle the sun, we've got
Eight great ways to get the girl you want
Seven virtues, minus the one, there are
Six ways to lose your wallet
Five pillars of Islam
Four Pavement songs that are kind of long
Three laws of motion, and then there's
Two - me and you
And there's just
One way we can solve this
Try and agree on the fifteen decisive battles of the world
Fancy soap in the soap dish
Well, don't you see?
Glitter and twang
She's out to
Glitter and twang for your heart
Well, don't you see?
Glitter and twang
She's out to
Glitter and twang for your heart
For your heart
Where pink and perfect were sold
A cheap guitar and a shooting star
In Pensacola we watched as she drew wings of gold
She'll take you east out of San Bernardino
Straight up to 129
A simple dare and a secret square
In the casino we laughed as nightfall lit up the sky
Well, don't you see?
Glitter and twang
She's out to
Glitter and twang for your heart
Well, don't you see?
Glitter and twang
She's out to
Glitter and twang for your heart
For your heart
She sings the song that she wrote me
I've got it stuck in my head
Broadway and Main and a ticket to Spain
She quotes the pillow queen and makes the trundle bed
She said she'd like to see Dale Dauntless
And the Double-D ranch
A steeplechase and a lipstick trace
Dressed up like honeybees and we're taking a chance
Well, don't you see?
Glitter and twang
She's out to
Glitter and twang for your heart
Well, don't you see?
Glitter and twang
She's out to
Glitter and twang for your heart
For your heart
There are ten plagues of Egypt
Nine planets that circle the sun, we've got
Eight great ways to get the girl you want
Seven virtues, minus the one, there are
Six ways to lose your wallet
Five pillars of Islam
Four Pavement songs that are kind of long
Three laws of motion, and then there's
Two - me and you
And there's just
One way we can solve this
Try and agree on the fifteen decisive battles of the world
Fancy soap in the soap dish
Well, don't you see?
Glitter and twang
She's out to
Glitter and twang for your heart
Well, don't you see?
Glitter and twang
She's out to
Glitter and twang for your heart
For your heart
Lyrics submitted by thejaysch
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