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"
Well it's only Thursday and it's no one's birthday
But we're goin' out for the night
Make a few stops, avoid the traffic cops
Pick up some whiskey and some dynamite
But there's always someone who's gotta spoil it for the rest of the gang
You're such a little Bogart and I'm sorry but you just can't hang
Why don't you pass it around
Don't bring the party down
If you don't pass it around
We'll run you right outta this town
Well it's already Friday gonna do it my way
Everything's ready to go
But later on all the beer is gone
Downed by some guys I don't even know
But there's always someone who's gotta spoil it for the rest of the gang
You're such a little Bogart and I'm sorry but you just can't hang
Why don't you pass it around
Don't bring the party down
If you don't pass it around
We'll run you right outta this town
Why don't you pass it around
Don't bring the party down
If you don't pass it around
We'll run you right outta this town
(Pass that glass, pass it around)
(Pass that glass, pass it around)
(Pass that glass, pass it around)
(Pass it around, don't bring the party down)
Saturday night don't really wanna fight
You get none if you didn't pay
Tell your little brother to go buy another
And give me back my Tanqueray
But there's always someone who's gotta spoil it for the rest of the gang
You're such a little Bogart and I'm sorry but you just can't hang
Why don't you pass it around
Don't bring the party down
If you don't pass it around
We'll run you right outta this town
(Are you pickin' up what I'm puttin' down?)
Why don't you pass it around
Don't bring the party down
If you don't pass it around
We'll run you right outta this town
But we're goin' out for the night
Make a few stops, avoid the traffic cops
Pick up some whiskey and some dynamite
But there's always someone who's gotta spoil it for the rest of the gang
You're such a little Bogart and I'm sorry but you just can't hang
Why don't you pass it around
Don't bring the party down
If you don't pass it around
We'll run you right outta this town
Well it's already Friday gonna do it my way
Everything's ready to go
But later on all the beer is gone
Downed by some guys I don't even know
But there's always someone who's gotta spoil it for the rest of the gang
You're such a little Bogart and I'm sorry but you just can't hang
Why don't you pass it around
Don't bring the party down
If you don't pass it around
We'll run you right outta this town
Why don't you pass it around
Don't bring the party down
If you don't pass it around
We'll run you right outta this town
(Pass that glass, pass it around)
(Pass that glass, pass it around)
(Pass that glass, pass it around)
(Pass it around, don't bring the party down)
Saturday night don't really wanna fight
You get none if you didn't pay
Tell your little brother to go buy another
And give me back my Tanqueray
But there's always someone who's gotta spoil it for the rest of the gang
You're such a little Bogart and I'm sorry but you just can't hang
Why don't you pass it around
Don't bring the party down
If you don't pass it around
We'll run you right outta this town
(Are you pickin' up what I'm puttin' down?)
Why don't you pass it around
Don't bring the party down
If you don't pass it around
We'll run you right outta this town
Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes
Pass It Around Lyrics as written by Brett Anderson Allison Robertson
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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There's always gonna be someone who spoils the fun with negativity or disapproval, and that's what this song is about. People love to party and they want the party pooper to have fun as well and chill. "Don't bring the party down". If they don't, then there'll be consequences for them. That's what I get out of this song, also what they mean by party, is drinking and getting drunk. "Pass that glass".