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"
When you break it to your Mama
Break it to her gently
You wouldn't want to break her heart
When you lay it on you Daddy
Make sure he ain't been drinkin
Or he's liable to tear something apart
Make it clear before I walk up you walk
I didn't just crawl out from under a rock
But I'm a primitive man, I don't need much
Food and fire and my woman's touch
Warmed by the sun, cooled by the rain
Gunnin for pleasure and runnin from pain
I'm a easy ridin, truck drivin, law abidin
Primitive man
I hope you won't be offended
If we just go fishin
At that little bend on Crenshaw creek
Then head out some old dirt road
Runnin for the sunset
Just you and my truck and me
We might end up out on Lover's Lane
Me Tarzan, you Jane
I'm a primitive man, I don't need much
Food and fire and my woman's touch
Warmed by the sun, cooled by the rain
Gunnin for pleasure and runnin from pain
I'm a easy ridin, truck drivin, law abidin
Primitive man
Tell me what's the world comin to
what's a pretty girl like you doin with
A primitive man, I don't need much
Food and fire and my woman's touch
Warmed by the sun, cooled by the rain
Gunnin for pleasure and runnin from pain
I'm a easy ridin
Truck drivin
Law abidin
Yeah, well I'm
A primitive man, I don't need much
Food and fire and my woman's touch
Warmed by the sun, cooled by the rain
Gunnin' for pleasure and runnin from pain
I'm a easy ridin, truck drivin, law abidin
Primitive man
I'm a primitive man
I'm a primitive man
I'm a primitive man
Break it to her gently
You wouldn't want to break her heart
When you lay it on you Daddy
Make sure he ain't been drinkin
Or he's liable to tear something apart
Make it clear before I walk up you walk
I didn't just crawl out from under a rock
But I'm a primitive man, I don't need much
Food and fire and my woman's touch
Warmed by the sun, cooled by the rain
Gunnin for pleasure and runnin from pain
I'm a easy ridin, truck drivin, law abidin
Primitive man
I hope you won't be offended
If we just go fishin
At that little bend on Crenshaw creek
Then head out some old dirt road
Runnin for the sunset
Just you and my truck and me
We might end up out on Lover's Lane
Me Tarzan, you Jane
I'm a primitive man, I don't need much
Food and fire and my woman's touch
Warmed by the sun, cooled by the rain
Gunnin for pleasure and runnin from pain
I'm a easy ridin, truck drivin, law abidin
Primitive man
Tell me what's the world comin to
what's a pretty girl like you doin with
A primitive man, I don't need much
Food and fire and my woman's touch
Warmed by the sun, cooled by the rain
Gunnin for pleasure and runnin from pain
I'm a easy ridin
Truck drivin
Law abidin
Yeah, well I'm
A primitive man, I don't need much
Food and fire and my woman's touch
Warmed by the sun, cooled by the rain
Gunnin' for pleasure and runnin from pain
I'm a easy ridin, truck drivin, law abidin
Primitive man
I'm a primitive man
I'm a primitive man
I'm a primitive man
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Primitive Man Lyrics as written by Mark Daniel Sanders Edward Monroe Hill
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