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"
Every dollar counts
And every morning hurts
We mostly work to live
Until we live to work
She said, "You know, there's nowhere else to go."
But change in rows
It struck me that the two of us could run
Words away from cars
And all the stars in bars
Where a little bit of condensation means so much
And a little bit of change is all your little fingers touch
I said, "You know, there's nowhere else to go."
But change in rolls
It struck me that the two of us could run
Cause honey with you
Is the only honest way to go
And I could take two
But I really couldn't ever know
Honey with you
And a little battered radio
We could try
So lead my feet away
Cause all they do is stay
And I don't think your eyes
Have ever looked surprised
She said, "You know, there's nowhere left to go."
But with her fund
It struck me that the two of us could run
Cause honey with you
Is the only honest way to go
And I could take two
If I really couldn't ever know
Honey with you
And battered radio
We could try
And every morning hurts
We mostly work to live
Until we live to work
She said, "You know, there's nowhere else to go."
But change in rows
It struck me that the two of us could run
Words away from cars
And all the stars in bars
Where a little bit of condensation means so much
And a little bit of change is all your little fingers touch
I said, "You know, there's nowhere else to go."
But change in rolls
It struck me that the two of us could run
Cause honey with you
Is the only honest way to go
And I could take two
But I really couldn't ever know
Honey with you
And a little battered radio
We could try
So lead my feet away
Cause all they do is stay
And I don't think your eyes
Have ever looked surprised
She said, "You know, there's nowhere left to go."
But with her fund
It struck me that the two of us could run
Cause honey with you
Is the only honest way to go
And I could take two
If I really couldn't ever know
Honey with you
And battered radio
We could try
Lyrics submitted by japobere
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I think this is an excellent in-depth and accurate interpretation of this song.<br /> Cheers