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"
We went to a Japanese restaurant
The dogs, the kids, and me
Lose my cares
In a cup of plum wine
And salads from the sea
We tripped into the calm little
Room
With the sliding paper walls
Mom was wearin’ her rose kimono
She was waiting for the fall
Just another night
A day in the life
Just another foreign film
In black and white
When you mess with them
You’re out of the realm of Zen
When they put on their party
Hats
The cook cracked, yeah yeah yeah
The cook, he told me
“Children not exactly well
Behaved”
I said, “Well, you can’t have it all”
And really, who cares
When the magic plum wine
Is dancing on the paper walls?
Then your lover shows up
Puts a sweet hello on your lips
And you’re transported
To the mist on the mountain
Till everyone runs in for the kiss
Don’t you know
It’s just another night
A day in the life
Just another foreign film
In black and white
When you mess with them
You’re beyond the realm of Zen
When they put on their party
Hats
The cook cracked, yeah yeah yeah
Did that ever happen to you?
As the wine descended
My citizenship surrendered
And I became a geisha
I moved through the mystery
Dark and content
With an uppity feminist bent
Mr. Cook, don’t you save my life
Don’t you save my love
I am quite contented, yes, sir
The elders say
Kids are grown and gone
Someday
So let’s enjoy the adventure
I’m sorry
But it’s just another night
A day in the life
Waitress, do you remember us?
As you can see, the situation is still a little out of control,
But I haven’t had a cigarette—it’s amazing—in five years.
But you know, for five years, I’ve been very hungry.
I’m sorry
But it’s just another night and day
The dogs, the kids, and me
Lose my cares
In a cup of plum wine
And salads from the sea
We tripped into the calm little
Room
With the sliding paper walls
Mom was wearin’ her rose kimono
She was waiting for the fall
Just another night
A day in the life
Just another foreign film
In black and white
When you mess with them
You’re out of the realm of Zen
When they put on their party
Hats
The cook cracked, yeah yeah yeah
The cook, he told me
“Children not exactly well
Behaved”
I said, “Well, you can’t have it all”
And really, who cares
When the magic plum wine
Is dancing on the paper walls?
Then your lover shows up
Puts a sweet hello on your lips
And you’re transported
To the mist on the mountain
Till everyone runs in for the kiss
Don’t you know
It’s just another night
A day in the life
Just another foreign film
In black and white
When you mess with them
You’re beyond the realm of Zen
When they put on their party
Hats
The cook cracked, yeah yeah yeah
Did that ever happen to you?
As the wine descended
My citizenship surrendered
And I became a geisha
I moved through the mystery
Dark and content
With an uppity feminist bent
Mr. Cook, don’t you save my life
Don’t you save my love
I am quite contented, yes, sir
The elders say
Kids are grown and gone
Someday
So let’s enjoy the adventure
I’m sorry
But it’s just another night
A day in the life
Waitress, do you remember us?
As you can see, the situation is still a little out of control,
But I haven’t had a cigarette—it’s amazing—in five years.
But you know, for five years, I’ve been very hungry.
I’m sorry
But it’s just another night and day
Lyrics submitted by just_old_light
Japanese Restaurant Song Lyrics as written by Laura Nyro
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