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"
Intro
What�ll you do when the people go home
What�ll you do when the show is all done
Deacon
I can�t
I won�t
I, No
Verse:1 - Deacon
I�m 25 now, year I told my pops I�d toss the towel in
Making music no longer easily makes my smile bend
Though, �wow�s� from the crowd�s ain�t end yet
Them smiles and back pats still ain�t helping the rent checks
Ain�t far from crack packs if I hursh these verse
Flippin words shit for an empty purse feels worthless
Listen, word of mouth done been a blessin and a curse
We reach heads but the only bread we see�s off shirt sales
Tours and shows spread all over the earth, well
Recoup gas and hotels, back to this dirt, Hell�s
Far away though, believe I ain�t complaining
Rather explaining, that unless this southern rain end
We�ll show proof we�s as real as you
Needing a roof, some shoes, dolla bills and food
Two from The Dirty met with mismatched skin
Acknowledged first that one day this track may end
When there�s no more steam in that engine
Yet hopefully clean streams be an astringent
But needs outweigh cheese tryna stay in contention
�For the love� is a hard reason to keep my life in suspension
�For the love� is a hard reason to keep my life in suspension
Kno
�For the love� is a hard reason to keep our lives in suspension, yeah
Hook
What do you do when the people go home
And what do you do when the show is all done
I know what I�ll do in the alone of my time
But what will I do with the leftover wine
What�ll you do, lay it down
What�ll you do, lay it down, lay it down, lay it down again
What�ll you do when the people go home
What�ll you do when the show is all done
Deacon
I can�t
I won�t
I, No
Verse:1 - Deacon
I�m 25 now, year I told my pops I�d toss the towel in
Making music no longer easily makes my smile bend
Though, �wow�s� from the crowd�s ain�t end yet
Them smiles and back pats still ain�t helping the rent checks
Ain�t far from crack packs if I hursh these verse
Flippin words shit for an empty purse feels worthless
Listen, word of mouth done been a blessin and a curse
We reach heads but the only bread we see�s off shirt sales
Tours and shows spread all over the earth, well
Recoup gas and hotels, back to this dirt, Hell�s
Far away though, believe I ain�t complaining
Rather explaining, that unless this southern rain end
We�ll show proof we�s as real as you
Needing a roof, some shoes, dolla bills and food
Two from The Dirty met with mismatched skin
Acknowledged first that one day this track may end
When there�s no more steam in that engine
Yet hopefully clean streams be an astringent
But needs outweigh cheese tryna stay in contention
�For the love� is a hard reason to keep my life in suspension
�For the love� is a hard reason to keep my life in suspension
Kno
�For the love� is a hard reason to keep our lives in suspension, yeah
Hook
What do you do when the people go home
And what do you do when the show is all done
I know what I�ll do in the alone of my time
But what will I do with the leftover wine
What�ll you do, lay it down
What�ll you do, lay it down, lay it down, lay it down again
Lyrics submitted by vstruhar
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