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"
There's a man, runnin' hot
And there's a night train
I know he's gonna stick it out
Ride that crazy white horse
He's a man
He's a pig in paradise
But he might get blown into the weeds tonight
Seems like there's a record stuck
And man I couldn't make it up
He's a cool hand Luke
He's a duke on a slippery slope
He's dispossessed and crazy
Thank you for nothing baby
All those dreams are going up in smoke
I said
Hey Floyd, you got your mind in a mess again
Hey Floyd, you gotta learn how to break the chain
Oh oh, yeh eh
There's a night train to your heartbreak
Get on
It's the dream time
That's been driving you on
No more blue sky hanging over your head
So what you gonna do Floyd?
(Do Floyd)
I gotta know, gotta know what you're gonna do
What ya gonna do, what ya gonna do?
What ya gonna do Floyd? (do Floyd)
I gotta know, I've gotta know what you're going to do
There's a night train to your heartbreak get on
It's the dream time
That's been driving you on, and on
No more blue sky hanging over your head
No more blue skies hanging over you ooh
Come on Floyd!
Shoot 'em up and shoot 'em down
Cut down this bird of freedom
Kick it, stick it, doin' what you can
Gotta make the pieces fit
Get rid of all that shit
Floyd, you can't forget that you're a man
I said
Hey Floyd, you got your mind in a mess again
Hey Floyd, you got time on your hands to mend
Come on Floyd!
Gotta learn to break the chain down baby
Hey Floyd!
Gotta learn to break the chain down baby
Get off that shotgun ride
I know how much you tried
To blow the high priestess of pain away
You're a lone extravaganza
A dirty player and a dirty dancer
Hell man, you don't even know your name
Hey Floyd, you got your mind in a mess again
(You got your mind in a mess again)
Hey Floyd, you gotta learn how to break the chain
(Dirty player, dirty dancer)
Come on Floyd
(Dirty player, dirty dancer)
It's all I ask of you
(Dirty player, dirty dancer)
Come on Floyd
It's all I ask of you
Hey Floyd,
Don't get your mind in a mess again
And there's a night train
I know he's gonna stick it out
Ride that crazy white horse
He's a man
He's a pig in paradise
But he might get blown into the weeds tonight
Seems like there's a record stuck
And man I couldn't make it up
He's a cool hand Luke
He's a duke on a slippery slope
He's dispossessed and crazy
Thank you for nothing baby
All those dreams are going up in smoke
I said
Hey Floyd, you got your mind in a mess again
Hey Floyd, you gotta learn how to break the chain
Oh oh, yeh eh
There's a night train to your heartbreak
Get on
It's the dream time
That's been driving you on
No more blue sky hanging over your head
So what you gonna do Floyd?
(Do Floyd)
I gotta know, gotta know what you're gonna do
What ya gonna do, what ya gonna do?
What ya gonna do Floyd? (do Floyd)
I gotta know, I've gotta know what you're going to do
There's a night train to your heartbreak get on
It's the dream time
That's been driving you on, and on
No more blue sky hanging over your head
No more blue skies hanging over you ooh
Come on Floyd!
Shoot 'em up and shoot 'em down
Cut down this bird of freedom
Kick it, stick it, doin' what you can
Gotta make the pieces fit
Get rid of all that shit
Floyd, you can't forget that you're a man
I said
Hey Floyd, you got your mind in a mess again
Hey Floyd, you got time on your hands to mend
Come on Floyd!
Gotta learn to break the chain down baby
Hey Floyd!
Gotta learn to break the chain down baby
Get off that shotgun ride
I know how much you tried
To blow the high priestess of pain away
You're a lone extravaganza
A dirty player and a dirty dancer
Hell man, you don't even know your name
Hey Floyd, you got your mind in a mess again
(You got your mind in a mess again)
Hey Floyd, you gotta learn how to break the chain
(Dirty player, dirty dancer)
Come on Floyd
(Dirty player, dirty dancer)
It's all I ask of you
(Dirty player, dirty dancer)
Come on Floyd
It's all I ask of you
Hey Floyd,
Don't get your mind in a mess again
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