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"
Happy anniversary, baby
It's been a year now since you moved away
And even though I asked you to go
I miss you every day
I miss you in the evenings
Alone in the bed where I lie
I miss you in the morning
Before I open my eyes
I went and sold everything that I could, babe
Then I gave away what didn't sell
I moved south to Nashville
I might like it there but I can't tell
I've been hanging in Austin
Eating Chili's and good Bar-be-Q
Writing songs about losing and heartache
Hey babe, I'm writing 'bout you
A year ain't nothing
When you lose someone you love
A year is a drop in a bucket
When you lose someone you love
I been traveling hard since September
I don't get back to Nashville till June
And I played my songs all over the world
But I can't find a home without you
I press on like a mad rushing river
I press on with the will to survive
A part of me lives for the wind in my face
While the other part's barely alive
A year ain't nothing
When you lose someone you love
A year is a drop in a bucket
When you lose someone you love
So Happy anniversary, baby
May fortune and fate be your friends
Wherever you go, I want you to know
I don't think my love ever ends
I carry it down the highway
It's a part of my body and soul
One day it'll be the part of me
That will pull me up out of this hole
A year ain't nothing
When you lose someone you love
A year is a drop in a bucket
When you lose someone you love
It's been a year now since you moved away
And even though I asked you to go
I miss you every day
I miss you in the evenings
Alone in the bed where I lie
I miss you in the morning
Before I open my eyes
I went and sold everything that I could, babe
Then I gave away what didn't sell
I moved south to Nashville
I might like it there but I can't tell
I've been hanging in Austin
Eating Chili's and good Bar-be-Q
Writing songs about losing and heartache
Hey babe, I'm writing 'bout you
A year ain't nothing
When you lose someone you love
A year is a drop in a bucket
When you lose someone you love
I been traveling hard since September
I don't get back to Nashville till June
And I played my songs all over the world
But I can't find a home without you
I press on like a mad rushing river
I press on with the will to survive
A part of me lives for the wind in my face
While the other part's barely alive
A year ain't nothing
When you lose someone you love
A year is a drop in a bucket
When you lose someone you love
So Happy anniversary, baby
May fortune and fate be your friends
Wherever you go, I want you to know
I don't think my love ever ends
I carry it down the highway
It's a part of my body and soul
One day it'll be the part of me
That will pull me up out of this hole
A year ain't nothing
When you lose someone you love
A year is a drop in a bucket
When you lose someone you love
Lyrics submitted by postmodernwishbone
Drop in a Bucket Lyrics as written by Mary Gauthier
Lyrics © KAREN SCHAUBEN PUBLISHING ADMINISTRATION
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