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"
I saw this stranger leave my pad
And this made me awful sad
(I don't blame ya)
But in the meantime
I was getting real mad
(You had a right to be)
And I said baby
What explanation do you have?
(Wha, wha, what she say)
She said mmm next time
I said there'll be no next time
That was the last time for me
(You told her right and I'm proud of you)
Then I grabbed my hat
And I headed for the door
(Yeah and don't don't don't come back either)
I knew I wouldn't be back
There no more
(You're doing the right thing Sam)
I wrote the landlord
A real cool gentle man
(And what did he say)
He said, hey Sam, how about the rent
(And what you told him)
I said mmmm next time
He said there'll be no next time
Your coming up right now
(Don't give him nothing Sam)
(Pay no attention to him)
Man, I jumped through that window
And my feet hit the ground
(You were traveling faster)
I figured I'd better
Get out of town
(Wow, how how was ya going)
When I arrived at the airport
Uh ohhhhhh
There was that man, failure to support
(What did you say)
I said, mmmm next time
He said there'll be no next time
You're going to see the judge right now
You shouldn't have gone to the airport
But he took me to see
That little friend of mine
(Oh that little fella)
Hahaha District Judge
(I remember him)
Room 229
(Yeah, he was crazy)
He said Sam
(What'd he say)
Your payments are way behind
I said don't worry judge
It won't happen next time
(And what'd he say)
He said mmm next time
There'll be no next time
You're going to jail right now
You shouldn't have gone to the airport
I'm surprised at it
I'm surprised at it
He put me in
A padded cell
(Did they feed ya)
On bread and water
And man that was well
(How long did they keep ya)
Thirty days later
On my way out
(What ya laughing about Sam)
Here comes my chick
With a big fat mouth
(Wha, was she alone)
A policeman had her
Was putting her in jail
(What she wanted from you)
She wanted me
To go hot bail
(What you told her)
I said next time
There'll be no next time
That was the last time for me
And this made me awful sad
(I don't blame ya)
But in the meantime
I was getting real mad
(You had a right to be)
And I said baby
What explanation do you have?
(Wha, wha, what she say)
She said mmm next time
I said there'll be no next time
That was the last time for me
(You told her right and I'm proud of you)
Then I grabbed my hat
And I headed for the door
(Yeah and don't don't don't come back either)
I knew I wouldn't be back
There no more
(You're doing the right thing Sam)
I wrote the landlord
A real cool gentle man
(And what did he say)
He said, hey Sam, how about the rent
(And what you told him)
I said mmmm next time
He said there'll be no next time
Your coming up right now
(Don't give him nothing Sam)
(Pay no attention to him)
Man, I jumped through that window
And my feet hit the ground
(You were traveling faster)
I figured I'd better
Get out of town
(Wow, how how was ya going)
When I arrived at the airport
Uh ohhhhhh
There was that man, failure to support
(What did you say)
I said, mmmm next time
He said there'll be no next time
You're going to see the judge right now
You shouldn't have gone to the airport
But he took me to see
That little friend of mine
(Oh that little fella)
Hahaha District Judge
(I remember him)
Room 229
(Yeah, he was crazy)
He said Sam
(What'd he say)
Your payments are way behind
I said don't worry judge
It won't happen next time
(And what'd he say)
He said mmm next time
There'll be no next time
You're going to jail right now
You shouldn't have gone to the airport
I'm surprised at it
I'm surprised at it
He put me in
A padded cell
(Did they feed ya)
On bread and water
And man that was well
(How long did they keep ya)
Thirty days later
On my way out
(What ya laughing about Sam)
Here comes my chick
With a big fat mouth
(Wha, was she alone)
A policeman had her
Was putting her in jail
(What she wanted from you)
She wanted me
To go hot bail
(What you told her)
I said next time
There'll be no next time
That was the last time for me
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