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 heard you talking the other day
You take pride in never wearing a frown
But when the chips fall another way
Your crying can be heard across town
It's a misunderstanding
Ain't no wrong or right
Just as long as you're with me
Tonight - Anyway the wind blows
Tonight - Doesn't matter where we go
You try to meet with your so called friends
But they're always gone - got something to do
They're so concerned with the latest trends
They don't even know they're special to you
Think you're way over due now
Maybe the time is right
So take my hand and come with me
Tonight - Anyway the wind blows
Tonight - Doesn't matter where we go
Tonight - We shouldn't even look back
Tonight - We're heading down the right track
I don't see any rhyme or reason
Why we should give up without a fight
Look hard you'll see the light
'Cause you know there's so much more
Tonight
We've got nothing to lose now
Get ready for the flight
So buckle up and make sure you hold on and stay with me
Tonight - Anyway the wind blows
Tonight - Doesn't matter where we go
Tonight - We shouldn't even look back
Tonight - We're heading down the right track
Tonight
You take pride in never wearing a frown
But when the chips fall another way
Your crying can be heard across town
It's a misunderstanding
Ain't no wrong or right
Just as long as you're with me
Tonight - Anyway the wind blows
Tonight - Doesn't matter where we go
You try to meet with your so called friends
But they're always gone - got something to do
They're so concerned with the latest trends
They don't even know they're special to you
Think you're way over due now
Maybe the time is right
So take my hand and come with me
Tonight - Anyway the wind blows
Tonight - Doesn't matter where we go
Tonight - We shouldn't even look back
Tonight - We're heading down the right track
I don't see any rhyme or reason
Why we should give up without a fight
Look hard you'll see the light
'Cause you know there's so much more
Tonight
We've got nothing to lose now
Get ready for the flight
So buckle up and make sure you hold on and stay with me
Tonight - Anyway the wind blows
Tonight - Doesn't matter where we go
Tonight - We shouldn't even look back
Tonight - We're heading down the right track
Tonight
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Tonight Lyrics as written by Timothy B. Schmit Bruce Gaitsch
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