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"
Heard the news about the scare
In the underwear
Populations getting thin
Forget the bomb its carnal sin yeah!
Marriage up divorce is down
No one wants to fuck around
Save the rose reject romance
Micky Mouse don't drop his pants
Now to sexual relations
Better take a wife
Now that sex is death
Better lead a boring life
No time for social kissing
You'll hardly raise a smile
When you think what you'll be missing
Iron undies back in style
Now where did it start?
And where will it end?
Be nice to the wife
Can't trust your friends
Masculine natural nowadays can offend
Never gonna fall in love again
Seems like only yesterday
Cocaine and extasy
Run around and jump on anything ya see
A marriage of convenience
Saw a doctor went abroad
Saved up a few pennies
Ran the weelchair down to Lourdes
Now handsome is as handsome does
And I did it everywhere
Before the currant era
I didn't have a care
Bloodstream destination
Megavitamin therapy
Artificial insemination
D.I.Y. vasectomy
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The 20th century
Two World Wars a Great Depression
This must be Germ War III
Now where did it start?
And where will it end?
Be nice to the wife
Can't trust your friends
Masculine natural nowadays can offend
Never gonna fall in love again
No need for alimony
'cause no one wants to split
leisure times a gamble
But jogging keeps you fit
Packed my bags for China
Join the yellow race
Nostradamus had a theory
They're inheriting the place
Blamed it on the Haliens
C.I.A and KGB
A.R.C. light a shining
Down on monogamy
New date really hard
Promiscure? Change your views
Unless you got a health card
Take a tip from Howard Hughes
Oh Trocadero transfer
I-Beam closet scene
Cat and mouse with the press
Exposé celebrity
Now where did it start?
And where will it end?
Be nice to the wife
Can't trust your friends
Masculine natural nowadays can offend
Never gonna fall in love again
No no no
The tramp of time continues
En masse to wedding bells
But they haven't made no breakthrough
To helper T. white cells
Wholesale Hyper wipe out
Technology against the pest
Put away those etchings
Sorry baby no contest
Notches and phone members
Collection flesh as pelts
Stealing cancers thunder
Blows below the belt
Oh don't it make you wonder
'Bout how the cards are dealt
Hoyl cow
Now where did it start?
And where will it end?
Be nice to the wife
Can't trust your friends
Masculine natural nowadays can offend
Never gonna fall in love again
In the underwear
Populations getting thin
Forget the bomb its carnal sin yeah!
Marriage up divorce is down
No one wants to fuck around
Save the rose reject romance
Micky Mouse don't drop his pants
Now to sexual relations
Better take a wife
Now that sex is death
Better lead a boring life
No time for social kissing
You'll hardly raise a smile
When you think what you'll be missing
Iron undies back in style
Now where did it start?
And where will it end?
Be nice to the wife
Can't trust your friends
Masculine natural nowadays can offend
Never gonna fall in love again
Seems like only yesterday
Cocaine and extasy
Run around and jump on anything ya see
A marriage of convenience
Saw a doctor went abroad
Saved up a few pennies
Ran the weelchair down to Lourdes
Now handsome is as handsome does
And I did it everywhere
Before the currant era
I didn't have a care
Bloodstream destination
Megavitamin therapy
Artificial insemination
D.I.Y. vasectomy
Oh spaceman junkfood Dallas
The 20th century
Two World Wars a Great Depression
This must be Germ War III
Now where did it start?
And where will it end?
Be nice to the wife
Can't trust your friends
Masculine natural nowadays can offend
Never gonna fall in love again
No need for alimony
'cause no one wants to split
leisure times a gamble
But jogging keeps you fit
Packed my bags for China
Join the yellow race
Nostradamus had a theory
They're inheriting the place
Blamed it on the Haliens
C.I.A and KGB
A.R.C. light a shining
Down on monogamy
New date really hard
Promiscure? Change your views
Unless you got a health card
Take a tip from Howard Hughes
Oh Trocadero transfer
I-Beam closet scene
Cat and mouse with the press
Exposé celebrity
Now where did it start?
And where will it end?
Be nice to the wife
Can't trust your friends
Masculine natural nowadays can offend
Never gonna fall in love again
No no no
The tramp of time continues
En masse to wedding bells
But they haven't made no breakthrough
To helper T. white cells
Wholesale Hyper wipe out
Technology against the pest
Put away those etchings
Sorry baby no contest
Notches and phone members
Collection flesh as pelts
Stealing cancers thunder
Blows below the belt
Oh don't it make you wonder
'Bout how the cards are dealt
Hoyl cow
Now where did it start?
And where will it end?
Be nice to the wife
Can't trust your friends
Masculine natural nowadays can offend
Never gonna fall in love again
Lyrics submitted by Zealot, edited by frondfeeler
Stone Thames Lyrics as written by Michael Geoffrey Jones Don Letts
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