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"
Wow there is something going down
Like the storm in the sky
I ain't gonna be played by your behavior
How can I trust someone who's lying to me
So bow out go now I said bow out and leave
I said take your stuff and go
'Cause you're not for me, no
Mamma knows best when times get hard
And Papa always has a joke to make me laugh
See Mamma knows best when I feel down
To bring me up and always keep my feet on solid ground
See I ain't no old rag doll
That you can pick up and drop
And all of this inconsistent love yeah
I think it's time that it S-T-O stops
So bow out go now I said bow out and leave
I said take your bags and go
'Cause you're not for me, no
Mamma knows best when times get hard
And Papa always has a joke to make me laugh
See Mamma knows best when I feel down
To bring me up and always keep my feet on solid ground
Just be the best my Daddy said to me
Always use humour as your therapy
Don't ever take life too seriously,
Just do you 'cause you do you so perfectly
See Mamma Mamma knows best
See Daddy Daddy knows best
See Mamma Mamma knows
See Mamma knows best when times get hard
And Papa always has a joke to make me laugh
See Mamma knows best when I feel down
To bring me up and always keep my feet on the ground
See Mamma Mamma knows best
See Daddy Daddy knows best
See Mamma Mamma knows best
See Mamma Mamma knows best
See Daddy Daddy knows best
See Mamma Mamma knows best
Like the storm in the sky
I ain't gonna be played by your behavior
How can I trust someone who's lying to me
So bow out go now I said bow out and leave
I said take your stuff and go
'Cause you're not for me, no
Mamma knows best when times get hard
And Papa always has a joke to make me laugh
See Mamma knows best when I feel down
To bring me up and always keep my feet on solid ground
See I ain't no old rag doll
That you can pick up and drop
And all of this inconsistent love yeah
I think it's time that it S-T-O stops
So bow out go now I said bow out and leave
I said take your bags and go
'Cause you're not for me, no
Mamma knows best when times get hard
And Papa always has a joke to make me laugh
See Mamma knows best when I feel down
To bring me up and always keep my feet on solid ground
Just be the best my Daddy said to me
Always use humour as your therapy
Don't ever take life too seriously,
Just do you 'cause you do you so perfectly
See Mamma Mamma knows best
See Daddy Daddy knows best
See Mamma Mamma knows
See Mamma knows best when times get hard
And Papa always has a joke to make me laugh
See Mamma knows best when I feel down
To bring me up and always keep my feet on the ground
See Mamma Mamma knows best
See Daddy Daddy knows best
See Mamma Mamma knows best
See Mamma Mamma knows best
See Daddy Daddy knows best
See Mamma Mamma knows best
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