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've got a car that's always stuck in the last gear
It starts and it goes if you leave it alone but you can't steer
Taking it out for a Sunday drive on the back roads
And it waits till I'm far away from home and the sun is getting low
And wouldn't you know it, she's breaking down again
Pulling her over onto the shoulder, letting her under my skin
I've got a woman that I haven't seen for a good year
She's got a new job, yeah I love her a lot but she ain't here
We've got a system and she's got it all worked out
But there's something missing that she's forgetting that she can't live without
And wouldn't you know it, she's breaking down again
Pulling her over onto my shoulder, letting her under my skin
I've got a car, it looks real good with the top down
But it lost a tire and caught on fire in the last town
I've got a girl that's drying her eyes with a haiku
So I'm hitching a ride down 35, gotta be there by afternoon
And wouldn't you know it, she's breaking down again
Pulling her over onto my shoulder, letting her under my skin
And wouldn't you know it, she's breaking down again
Pulling her over onto my shoulder, letting her under my skin
And wouldn't you know it, she's breaking down again
Pulling her over onto my shoulder, letting her under my skin
It starts and it goes if you leave it alone but you can't steer
Taking it out for a Sunday drive on the back roads
And it waits till I'm far away from home and the sun is getting low
And wouldn't you know it, she's breaking down again
Pulling her over onto the shoulder, letting her under my skin
I've got a woman that I haven't seen for a good year
She's got a new job, yeah I love her a lot but she ain't here
We've got a system and she's got it all worked out
But there's something missing that she's forgetting that she can't live without
And wouldn't you know it, she's breaking down again
Pulling her over onto my shoulder, letting her under my skin
I've got a car, it looks real good with the top down
But it lost a tire and caught on fire in the last town
I've got a girl that's drying her eyes with a haiku
So I'm hitching a ride down 35, gotta be there by afternoon
And wouldn't you know it, she's breaking down again
Pulling her over onto my shoulder, letting her under my skin
And wouldn't you know it, she's breaking down again
Pulling her over onto my shoulder, letting her under my skin
And wouldn't you know it, she's breaking down again
Pulling her over onto my shoulder, letting her under my skin
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