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"
Oh daddy
Oh, sock it to me
See my brother talkin' plently head
Steady wishin' he could sleep in your bed
Steady wishin' he was in your car
Just a steady wishin' that he was who you are
Pop daddy, daddy pop
Brother steady talkin' while
The girlies steady hop
Pop daddy, daddy pop
Punchin' in the rock and roll clock (oh daddy)
See all the people wonder why
Set your goals high, high as the sky
See the people runnin' from the truth
Livin' in the past
When they need to be livin' the new
Pop daddy (oh yeah) daddy pop
Brother steady talkin' while
The girlies steady hop
Pop daddy, daddy pop
Punchin' in the rock and roll clock
Pop, daddy pop
Pop, punchin' in the rock and roll clock
Talk, guitar, talk
(Oh daddy)
Daddy pop is the writer and love is the book
You better look it over before you overlook
One, oh daddy
Two, oh yeah
Three, oh, sock it to me
Four, oh (come on), your the best
See all my critics wastin' time
Worryin' about the daddy while he beat you blind
Get your life together, stop your cryin'
Whenever you say that you can't
That's when you need to be tryin'
Pop daddy, daddy pop (oh daddy)
Brother steady talkin' while (steady, steady, steady)
The girlies steady hop
Pop daddy, daddy pop
Punchin' in the rock and roll clock (punchin' in, punchin' in)
What kind of fool is this, that thinks daddy will miss
What kind of boy would diss, a list, as long as his-tory itself
I got grooves and grooves up on the shelf (oh daddy)
Deep purple concord jams (oh yeah)
This party I will slam (I don't think)
I don't think you understand (sock it to me)
Whatever you can't do, daddy can
The one and only daddy pop
(Oh daddy) one and only, daddy pop
Pop daddy, daddy pop (oh no, my brother)
Brother steady talkin' while
The girlies steady hop (there ain't no stoppin')
Pop daddy, daddy pop (check the record, yeah!)
Punchin' in the rock and roll clock
Poppa daddy's commin'
(Ring di di ding) somebody's calling
"The jester's on the phone!"
Oh yeah?
Rosie tell him I ain't home (ooh, ooh)
Just one in a long line that want to see me!
Daddy pop
(Oh daddy)
(Oh yeah)
(Oh daddy)
(Oh yeah)
Daddy pop (oh daddy)
Daddy pop (oh yeah)
Daddy pop (oh daddy)
Daddy pop (oh yeah)
Daddy pop lead the band
As I step to the mic and lend a hand (oh daddy)
To the funky groove, let's make the whole house move
Yo band let me hear you say oh (oh) (oh yeah)
That's right, we're gonna turn this mother out tonight
We ain't leavin' 'til they (oh daddy)
Gonna have to turn off the lights
And if they do then what we gonna do?
(Trash it up cause we ain't through) (oh yeah)
Yeah hit it, it's time to get with it, huh
I ain't no angel so to hell with playin' innocent (oh daddy)
Those who came to party know just what I'm talking about
So come on y'all (oh yeah)
Wave your hand in the air, everybody
Wave your hand in the air (oh daddy) (daddy pop)
For the funkiest band in the land and don't forget
The p-a-r-t-y-m-a-n (oh yeah) (daddy pop)
Peace (daddy pop) (oh daddy)
Yeah, peace (daddy pop) (oh yeah)
Like I said right about now (daddy pop) (oh daddy)
NPG is like a (daddy pop) (oh yeah)
Oh, sock it to me
See my brother talkin' plently head
Steady wishin' he could sleep in your bed
Steady wishin' he was in your car
Just a steady wishin' that he was who you are
Pop daddy, daddy pop
Brother steady talkin' while
The girlies steady hop
Pop daddy, daddy pop
Punchin' in the rock and roll clock (oh daddy)
See all the people wonder why
Set your goals high, high as the sky
See the people runnin' from the truth
Livin' in the past
When they need to be livin' the new
Pop daddy (oh yeah) daddy pop
Brother steady talkin' while
The girlies steady hop
Pop daddy, daddy pop
Punchin' in the rock and roll clock
Pop, daddy pop
Pop, punchin' in the rock and roll clock
Talk, guitar, talk
(Oh daddy)
Daddy pop is the writer and love is the book
You better look it over before you overlook
One, oh daddy
Two, oh yeah
Three, oh, sock it to me
Four, oh (come on), your the best
See all my critics wastin' time
Worryin' about the daddy while he beat you blind
Get your life together, stop your cryin'
Whenever you say that you can't
That's when you need to be tryin'
Pop daddy, daddy pop (oh daddy)
Brother steady talkin' while (steady, steady, steady)
The girlies steady hop
Pop daddy, daddy pop
Punchin' in the rock and roll clock (punchin' in, punchin' in)
What kind of fool is this, that thinks daddy will miss
What kind of boy would diss, a list, as long as his-tory itself
I got grooves and grooves up on the shelf (oh daddy)
Deep purple concord jams (oh yeah)
This party I will slam (I don't think)
I don't think you understand (sock it to me)
Whatever you can't do, daddy can
The one and only daddy pop
(Oh daddy) one and only, daddy pop
Pop daddy, daddy pop (oh no, my brother)
Brother steady talkin' while
The girlies steady hop (there ain't no stoppin')
Pop daddy, daddy pop (check the record, yeah!)
Punchin' in the rock and roll clock
Poppa daddy's commin'
(Ring di di ding) somebody's calling
"The jester's on the phone!"
Oh yeah?
Rosie tell him I ain't home (ooh, ooh)
Just one in a long line that want to see me!
Daddy pop
(Oh daddy)
(Oh yeah)
(Oh daddy)
(Oh yeah)
Daddy pop (oh daddy)
Daddy pop (oh yeah)
Daddy pop (oh daddy)
Daddy pop (oh yeah)
Daddy pop lead the band
As I step to the mic and lend a hand (oh daddy)
To the funky groove, let's make the whole house move
Yo band let me hear you say oh (oh) (oh yeah)
That's right, we're gonna turn this mother out tonight
We ain't leavin' 'til they (oh daddy)
Gonna have to turn off the lights
And if they do then what we gonna do?
(Trash it up cause we ain't through) (oh yeah)
Yeah hit it, it's time to get with it, huh
I ain't no angel so to hell with playin' innocent (oh daddy)
Those who came to party know just what I'm talking about
So come on y'all (oh yeah)
Wave your hand in the air, everybody
Wave your hand in the air (oh daddy) (daddy pop)
For the funkiest band in the land and don't forget
The p-a-r-t-y-m-a-n (oh yeah) (daddy pop)
Peace (daddy pop) (oh daddy)
Yeah, peace (daddy pop) (oh yeah)
Like I said right about now (daddy pop) (oh daddy)
NPG is like a (daddy pop) (oh yeah)
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