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"
(All)
At last we are to meet him,
The famous Captain Spaulding.
From climates hot and scalding,
The Captain has arrived.
Most heartily we'll greet him,
With plain and fancy cheering.
Until he's hard of hearing.
The Captain has arrived.
At last - The Captain has arrived.
(Hives)
Mr. Horatio W. Jamison, Field Secretary to Captain Spaulding.
(Jamison)
I represent the Captain who insists on my informing you of these conditions under
which he camps here.
In one thing he is very strict, he wants his women young and picked and as for men,
he won't have any tramps here.
(All)
As for men he won't have any tramps here,
There must be no tramps.
(Jamison)
The men must all be very old,
The women warm, the champagne cold.
It's under these conditions that he camps here.
(Voice off Screen)
I'm announcing Captain Jeffery Spaulding.
(All)
He's announcing Captain Jeffery Spaulding,
Oh dear, he is coming,
At last he's here.
(Spaulding)
Hello, I must be going,
I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going.
I'm glad I came, but just the same I must be going.
La La.
(Mrs. Rittenhouse)
For my sake you must stay.
If you should go away,
You'd spoil this party I am throwing.
(Spaulding)
I'll stay a week or two,
I'll stay the summer thru,
But I am telling you,
I must be going.
(All)
Before you go,
Will you oblige us,
And tell us of your deeds so glowing?
(Spaulding)
I'll do anything you say,
In fact I'll even stay!
(All)
Good!
(Spaulding)
But I must be going.
(Jamison)
There's something that I'd like to say,
That he's too modest to relay.
The Captain is a moral man.
Sometimes he finds it trying.
(Spaulding)
This fact I emphasize with stress,
I never take a drink unless - Somebody's buying.
(All)
The Captain is a very moral man.
(Jamison)
If he hears anything obscene, He'll naturally repel it.
(Spaulding)
I hate a dirty joke I do,
Unless it's told by someone who -
Knows how to tell it.
(All)
The Captain is a very moral man.
Hooray for Captain Spaulding, The African explorer.
(Spaulding)
Did someone call me Shnorrer?
(All)
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray.
(Jamison)
He went into the jungle where all the monkeys throw nuts.
(Spaulding)
If I stay here I'll go nuts.
(All)
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray.
He put all his reliance, In courage and defiance,
And risked his life for science.
(Spaulding)
Hey, hey.
(Mrs. Rittenhouse)
You are the only white man to cover every acre.
(Spaulding)
I think I'll try and make her.
(All)
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray.
He put all his reliance, In courage and defiance,
And risked his life for science.
(Spaulding)
Hey, hey.
(All)
Hooray for Captain Spaulding, The African explorer.
He brought his name undying fame
And that is why we say, Hooray, Hooray, Hooray.
(Spaulding attempts to speak)
My friends, I am highly gratified at this magnificent display of effusion and I want
you to know.........
(All)
Hooray for Captain Spaulding, The African explorer.
He brought his name undying fame
And that is why we say, Hooray, Hooray, Hooray.
(Spaulding)
My friends, I am highly gratified at this magnificent display of effusion and I want
you to know.........
Hooray for Captain Spaulding, The African big hero.....
Well, somebody's got to do it!
At last we are to meet him,
The famous Captain Spaulding.
From climates hot and scalding,
The Captain has arrived.
Most heartily we'll greet him,
With plain and fancy cheering.
Until he's hard of hearing.
The Captain has arrived.
At last - The Captain has arrived.
(Hives)
Mr. Horatio W. Jamison, Field Secretary to Captain Spaulding.
(Jamison)
I represent the Captain who insists on my informing you of these conditions under
which he camps here.
In one thing he is very strict, he wants his women young and picked and as for men,
he won't have any tramps here.
(All)
As for men he won't have any tramps here,
There must be no tramps.
(Jamison)
The men must all be very old,
The women warm, the champagne cold.
It's under these conditions that he camps here.
(Voice off Screen)
I'm announcing Captain Jeffery Spaulding.
(All)
He's announcing Captain Jeffery Spaulding,
Oh dear, he is coming,
At last he's here.
(Spaulding)
Hello, I must be going,
I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going.
I'm glad I came, but just the same I must be going.
La La.
(Mrs. Rittenhouse)
For my sake you must stay.
If you should go away,
You'd spoil this party I am throwing.
(Spaulding)
I'll stay a week or two,
I'll stay the summer thru,
But I am telling you,
I must be going.
(All)
Before you go,
Will you oblige us,
And tell us of your deeds so glowing?
(Spaulding)
I'll do anything you say,
In fact I'll even stay!
(All)
Good!
(Spaulding)
But I must be going.
(Jamison)
There's something that I'd like to say,
That he's too modest to relay.
The Captain is a moral man.
Sometimes he finds it trying.
(Spaulding)
This fact I emphasize with stress,
I never take a drink unless - Somebody's buying.
(All)
The Captain is a very moral man.
(Jamison)
If he hears anything obscene, He'll naturally repel it.
(Spaulding)
I hate a dirty joke I do,
Unless it's told by someone who -
Knows how to tell it.
(All)
The Captain is a very moral man.
Hooray for Captain Spaulding, The African explorer.
(Spaulding)
Did someone call me Shnorrer?
(All)
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray.
(Jamison)
He went into the jungle where all the monkeys throw nuts.
(Spaulding)
If I stay here I'll go nuts.
(All)
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray.
He put all his reliance, In courage and defiance,
And risked his life for science.
(Spaulding)
Hey, hey.
(Mrs. Rittenhouse)
You are the only white man to cover every acre.
(Spaulding)
I think I'll try and make her.
(All)
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray.
He put all his reliance, In courage and defiance,
And risked his life for science.
(Spaulding)
Hey, hey.
(All)
Hooray for Captain Spaulding, The African explorer.
He brought his name undying fame
And that is why we say, Hooray, Hooray, Hooray.
(Spaulding attempts to speak)
My friends, I am highly gratified at this magnificent display of effusion and I want
you to know.........
(All)
Hooray for Captain Spaulding, The African explorer.
He brought his name undying fame
And that is why we say, Hooray, Hooray, Hooray.
(Spaulding)
My friends, I am highly gratified at this magnificent display of effusion and I want
you to know.........
Hooray for Captain Spaulding, The African big hero.....
Well, somebody's got to do it!
Lyrics submitted by kmk_natasha
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