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"
It was 1989, my thoughts were short my hair was long
Caught somewhere between a boy and man
She was seventeen and she was far from in-between
It was summertime in Northern Michigan
Ahh Ahh Ahh
Ahh Ahh Ahh
Splashing through the sand bar
Talking by the campfire
It's the simple things in life, like when and where
We didn't have no internet
But man I never will forget
The way the moonlight shined upon her hair
And we were trying different things
We were smoking funny things
Making love out by the lake to our favorite song
Sipping whiskey out the bottle, not thinking 'bout tomorrow
Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long
Catching Walleye from the dock
Watching the waves roll off the rocks
She'll forever hold a spot inside my soul
We'd blister in the sun
We couldn't wait for night to come
To hit that sand and play some rock and roll
While we were trying different things
And we were smoking funny things
Making love out by the lake to our favorite song
Sipping whiskey out the bottle, not thinking 'bout tomorrow
Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long
Now nothing seems as strange as when the leaves began to change
Or how we thought those days would never end
Sometimes I'll hear that song and I'll start to sing along
And think man I'd love to see that girl again
And we were trying different things
We were smoking funny things
Making love out by the lake to our favorite song
Sipping whiskey out the bottle, not thinking 'bout tomorrow
Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long
And we were trying different things
We were smoking funny things
Making love out by the lake to our favorite song
Sipping whiskey out the bottle, not thinking 'bout tomorrow
Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long
Caught somewhere between a boy and man
She was seventeen and she was far from in-between
It was summertime in Northern Michigan
Ahh Ahh Ahh
Ahh Ahh Ahh
Splashing through the sand bar
Talking by the campfire
It's the simple things in life, like when and where
We didn't have no internet
But man I never will forget
The way the moonlight shined upon her hair
And we were trying different things
We were smoking funny things
Making love out by the lake to our favorite song
Sipping whiskey out the bottle, not thinking 'bout tomorrow
Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long
Catching Walleye from the dock
Watching the waves roll off the rocks
She'll forever hold a spot inside my soul
We'd blister in the sun
We couldn't wait for night to come
To hit that sand and play some rock and roll
While we were trying different things
And we were smoking funny things
Making love out by the lake to our favorite song
Sipping whiskey out the bottle, not thinking 'bout tomorrow
Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long
Now nothing seems as strange as when the leaves began to change
Or how we thought those days would never end
Sometimes I'll hear that song and I'll start to sing along
And think man I'd love to see that girl again
And we were trying different things
We were smoking funny things
Making love out by the lake to our favorite song
Sipping whiskey out the bottle, not thinking 'bout tomorrow
Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long
And we were trying different things
We were smoking funny things
Making love out by the lake to our favorite song
Sipping whiskey out the bottle, not thinking 'bout tomorrow
Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long
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All Summer Long Lyrics as written by Gary Rossington Edward King
Lyrics © MUSIC & MEDIA INT'L, INC., Universal Music Publishing Group, Sentric Music, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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i love both sweet home alabama (im a huge lynyrd skynyrd fan) and werewolves of london and i think it's brilliant Kid Rock uses them very catchy song, brilliant love it
Does no one understand this song is a mashup? It sounds a lot like those other tunes because it is purposely build from them as a tribute. Listen to the lyrics, it's all about remembering songs attached to memories in your past. Doh.
I've never really been a fan of Kid Rock but have to admit I really like this song. Reading an interview with him about this song he contacted both Warren Zevon's son and also the Lynyrd Skynyrd estate to get permission. Additionally, Billy Powell (from Lynyrd Skynyrd) plays piano on the song.
The song is about looking back on the days when we were young and remembering the great times we had with our first love.
Kid Rock uses Sweet Home Alabama to remember the girl who captured his soul in his youth.
It truly is a beautiful song, with deep dear meaning.
yea...i live not so far from Torch Lake actually...
personally i love this song :) huge lynyrd skynyrd fan (before the crash:/) plus this make remember all those summer nights just chillin :) but anyways pikespice
sweet home alabama is a song by lynyrd skynyrd that him and his girl are singing that summer :) its fairly popular i mean ppl all over the country sing it :) does that explain it ?
Now nothing seems as strange as when the leaves begin to change Or how we thought those days would never end Sometimes I hear that song and I start to sing along And think, Man I'd love to see that girl again
man i love that part :)
Wow, no one has commented on this fantastic song yet? I love the "Sweet Home Alabama" sample. In fact, I like this version better than that one which is saying a lot.
I love the first verse because it reminds me of past summers in the gorgeous state of Michigan where I live.
i like this song quite a fair bit, however, i think its kinda lame that he just used warren zevon's warewolves of london, and sweet home alabama, and then put an extra beat on it
but other then that 2 thumbs up
i do agree it is pretty lame that he can't write his own beats and coppied off those. but you do have to admit that he pretty much put those songs toghether perfectly and it sounds really good the way they go together like that
this song reminds me of wearwolves of london and sweet home alabama. i also think this song is about kid rocks child hood.
and this song is sweet cuz it reminds me of my summers in my home state of michigan
I don't care if this song is a rip-off. I love it couse it reminds of something very nice... And I don't know what =DD Anyway do you have to be from Alabama so you can sing Sweet Home Alabama?