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"
Una señora patillalera
Muy elegante, vestida de negro
Formó en el Valle una gritería
Porque la nieta que más quería
La pechichona, la consentida
Un dueño e' carro cargó con ella
Tranquilízate Juana Arias
Déjate de tanta bulla
Que tú te mueres de rabia
Y ellos mascándose en la cabuya
Ella gritaba yo crie a mi nieta
Con buena ropa, con buen calzado
Con mucho esmero y estimación
Pa' que ahora venga ese sin vergüenza
Nariz parada, patillalero
A entusiasmarla con su camión.
A todo el mundo empezó a decirle
Oigan señores pa' que lo sepan
Representante yo tengo empilas
En Patillal es Colás Martínez
Que es la única persona que sirve
Y aquí en el Valle el doctor Molina
Estate quieta Juana Arias
Deja a los muchachos quietos
Que tú te mueres de rabia
Y ellos se están mascando el cabestro
Si usted confía en el doctor Molina
Doña Juana Arias, siento decirle
Que en este caso ha perdido todo
Porque ese no afloja su chinchorro
Ni si le dan todos los tesoros
Ni si le dan todo lo que brilla
Es eminente y capacitado
Fuma tabaco y habla de todo
Y tiene muy buena reputación
Fue magistrado con gran decoro
Por eso no cambia su chinchorro
Ni por la silla del gobernador
Doña Juana Arias, que tontería
Ha cometido un error muy grande
En lo que se ha puesto con Luis Manuel
Usted pendiente la policía
Y ellos felices quién sabe dónde
Estarán gozando su luna e' miel
Muy elegante, vestida de negro
Formó en el Valle una gritería
Porque la nieta que más quería
La pechichona, la consentida
Un dueño e' carro cargó con ella
Tranquilízate Juana Arias
Déjate de tanta bulla
Que tú te mueres de rabia
Y ellos mascándose en la cabuya
Ella gritaba yo crie a mi nieta
Con buena ropa, con buen calzado
Con mucho esmero y estimación
Pa' que ahora venga ese sin vergüenza
Nariz parada, patillalero
A entusiasmarla con su camión.
A todo el mundo empezó a decirle
Oigan señores pa' que lo sepan
Representante yo tengo empilas
En Patillal es Colás Martínez
Que es la única persona que sirve
Y aquí en el Valle el doctor Molina
Estate quieta Juana Arias
Deja a los muchachos quietos
Que tú te mueres de rabia
Y ellos se están mascando el cabestro
Si usted confía en el doctor Molina
Doña Juana Arias, siento decirle
Que en este caso ha perdido todo
Porque ese no afloja su chinchorro
Ni si le dan todos los tesoros
Ni si le dan todo lo que brilla
Es eminente y capacitado
Fuma tabaco y habla de todo
Y tiene muy buena reputación
Fue magistrado con gran decoro
Por eso no cambia su chinchorro
Ni por la silla del gobernador
Doña Juana Arias, que tontería
Ha cometido un error muy grande
En lo que se ha puesto con Luis Manuel
Usted pendiente la policía
Y ellos felices quién sabe dónde
Estarán gozando su luna e' miel
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La Patillalera Lyrics as written by Rafael Escalona
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