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"
Take me out, take me home, take me anywhere
I walked a hundred miles so I could give a dog a bone.
I'm alright, I don't mind.
I'm just running into something bigger
than the something that I left behind.
Oh my darling (x3), Clementine.
Turn the water (x3) into holy water.
You are restless, very young.
Got a message from your mother,
said to tell you she'll be coming round the mountain when she comes,
She will be coming round the mountain when she comes.
Oh my darling (x3), Clementine.
Turn the water (x3) into holy water.
Oh my darling (x3), Clementine.
Turn the water (x3) into a little bit more time.
Take me out, take me home, take me anywhere.
I walked a hundred miles
so I could hear them play your song on the radio.
I walked a hundred miles so I could give a dog a bone.
I'm alright, I don't mind.
I'm just running into something bigger
than the something that I left behind.
Oh my darling (x3), Clementine.
Turn the water (x3) into holy water.
You are restless, very young.
Got a message from your mother,
said to tell you she'll be coming round the mountain when she comes,
She will be coming round the mountain when she comes.
Oh my darling (x3), Clementine.
Turn the water (x3) into holy water.
Oh my darling (x3), Clementine.
Turn the water (x3) into a little bit more time.
Take me out, take me home, take me anywhere.
I walked a hundred miles
so I could hear them play your song on the radio.
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The lyrics are gibberish really, but it doesn't matter because Megan Washington has the best voice ever.
Mmm, yes; I agree. She sings beautifully.
Gibberish to you two masters of linguinstics and/or poetry? Nah.
I don't think the song is entirely gibberish but sometimes the things that we want to say seem that way because sometimes the words we use are too short to encapsulate certain experiences.
Personally for me its a song about finding a way to get out of a stagnant situation where your life isn't going anywhere or finding your place in the world So you run away trying yourself into things that might make life seem more meaningful and purposeful.
Hence my favorite line "I'm just running into something bigger than the something I left behind."
"Take me out, take me home, take me anywhere I walked a hundred miles so I could give a dog a bone." - because when you feel empty, you have nothing to give. In order to move forward you need to move.
"Turn the water into holy water" Making ordinary things mean something deeper like a job into a real career.
"You are young you are restless. Got a message from your mother said to tell you she'll be coming round the mountain when she comes" - Well when you're young you want try a lot of things, and sometimes all these restlessness lands us into trouble hence the "mountains". The part about the mother maybe about our parents or loved ones who are supporting us to overcome difficulties. They'll come around the mountain because its not them who are facing the difficulties but us. Only we can face the music, and the people we love can only be there for us.
"Take me out, take me home, take me anywhere. I walked a hundred miles so I could hear them play your song on the radio." - I guess its about a record she worked to put out there"