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"
An angel on a Harley
Pulls across to greet a fellow rolling stone
Puts his bike up on it's stand
Leans back and then extends a scarred and greasy hand
He said
"How ya doin bro? Where ya been? Where ya goin'?"
Then he takes your hand in some strange Californian handshake
And breaks the bone (have a nice day)
A housewife from Encino
Whose husband's on the golf course
With his book of rules
Breaks and makes a 'U' and idles back
To take a second look at you
(You flex your rod) You flex your rod
Fish takes the hook
Sweet vodka and tobacco in her breath
Another number in your little black book
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
Oh babe, I must be dreaming
I was standing on the leading edge
The Eastern seaboard spread before my eyes
"Jump" says Yoko Ono
"I'm too scared and too good looking", I cried
"Go on", she says
"Why don't you give it a try?
Why prolong the agony? All men must die"
Do you remember Dick Tracy?
Do you remember Shane?
(And mother wants you)
Could you see him selling tickets where the buzzard circles over
(Shane)
The body on the plain
Did you understand the music, Yoko, or was it all in vain?
(Shane)
The bitch said something mystical
So I stepped back on the curb again
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
Oh babe, I must be dreaming again
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
Pulls across to greet a fellow rolling stone
Puts his bike up on it's stand
Leans back and then extends a scarred and greasy hand
He said
"How ya doin bro? Where ya been? Where ya goin'?"
Then he takes your hand in some strange Californian handshake
And breaks the bone (have a nice day)
A housewife from Encino
Whose husband's on the golf course
With his book of rules
Breaks and makes a 'U' and idles back
To take a second look at you
(You flex your rod) You flex your rod
Fish takes the hook
Sweet vodka and tobacco in her breath
Another number in your little black book
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
Oh babe, I must be dreaming
I was standing on the leading edge
The Eastern seaboard spread before my eyes
"Jump" says Yoko Ono
"I'm too scared and too good looking", I cried
"Go on", she says
"Why don't you give it a try?
Why prolong the agony? All men must die"
Do you remember Dick Tracy?
Do you remember Shane?
(And mother wants you)
Could you see him selling tickets where the buzzard circles over
(Shane)
The body on the plain
Did you understand the music, Yoko, or was it all in vain?
(Shane)
The bitch said something mystical
So I stepped back on the curb again
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
Oh babe, I must be dreaming again
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
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5.01 AM (The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Pt. 10) Lyrics as written by Roger Waters
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Here are the ACTUAL lyrics: An angel on a Harley pulls across to greet a fellow rolling stone, puts his bike up on its stand leans back and then extends a scarred and greasy hand. He says "How ya doin' bro? Where ya been? Where ya goin'?" Then he takes your hand in some strange Californian handshake and breaks the bone: "Have a nice day" A housewife from Encino whose husband's on the golf course with his book of rules breaks and makes a 'U' and idles back to take a second look at you. You flex your rod, fish takes the hook - Sweet vodka and tobacco in her breath - another number in your little black book These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking "Oh babe, I must be dreaming" I was standing on the leading edge, the Eastern seaboard spread before my eyes. "Jump" said Yoko Ono. "I'm too scared and too good looking", I cried. "Go on," she says, "Why don't you give it a try? Why prolong the agony. All men must die" Do you remember Dick Tracy? Do you remember Shane? "And mother wants you" Could you see him selling tickets where the buzzard circles over "Shane" - The body on the plain Did you understand the music, Yoko or was it all in vain? Shame! The bitch said something mystical "Herro" So I stepped back on the curb again - wooh! These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking "Oh babe, I must be dreaming again" These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking