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 was ready to cross that border
leave my babe behind
yes ready to cross that border
where I thought that I'd gold to grind
Well I told her 'bout the fortunes
that I was gonna get
and how I'd come and pick her up later
in a brand new Corvette
or maybe in a streamlined custom jet
and how I'd knot my bandana and not forget
She said did I remember those rainy mornings
on the by-pass out of this place
trying to flag down long-distance haulers
she her handbag and me my case
and how we'd dreamed about being somewhere
where we could tune in
and all the times we had to turn back
and give in once again
and now you tell me that you'll not forget
to come and get me in your new Corvette
But what was that shadow
- a rush in the street
was it a bat or a hobo that laid
beneath her pink silk-sheet
you know I really can't leave you
as your heart could stop to beat
yes, and the gold in your grind
is what in the end I really best need
Yes I went to see my babe
this would be the Big Farewell
many many teardrops I did expect
and love words to tell
you know, I left out all those
red-light streets with girls in procession
just to tell her who her sole was and
whole possession
and how I'd tell her not to fret
that I'd be back to get her in a jet...
But what was that movement?
a reflection on the blind
was it a cat or red-robin?
and what were those words
the gold in your grind
is what I really best need
you know I really can't leave you
as my heart would stop to beat
and the gold in your grind
is what I really best need
It was the Big Farewell.
leave my babe behind
yes ready to cross that border
where I thought that I'd gold to grind
Well I told her 'bout the fortunes
that I was gonna get
and how I'd come and pick her up later
in a brand new Corvette
or maybe in a streamlined custom jet
and how I'd knot my bandana and not forget
She said did I remember those rainy mornings
on the by-pass out of this place
trying to flag down long-distance haulers
she her handbag and me my case
and how we'd dreamed about being somewhere
where we could tune in
and all the times we had to turn back
and give in once again
and now you tell me that you'll not forget
to come and get me in your new Corvette
But what was that shadow
- a rush in the street
was it a bat or a hobo that laid
beneath her pink silk-sheet
you know I really can't leave you
as your heart could stop to beat
yes, and the gold in your grind
is what in the end I really best need
Yes I went to see my babe
this would be the Big Farewell
many many teardrops I did expect
and love words to tell
you know, I left out all those
red-light streets with girls in procession
just to tell her who her sole was and
whole possession
and how I'd tell her not to fret
that I'd be back to get her in a jet...
But what was that movement?
a reflection on the blind
was it a cat or red-robin?
and what were those words
the gold in your grind
is what I really best need
you know I really can't leave you
as my heart would stop to beat
and the gold in your grind
is what I really best need
It was the Big Farewell.
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The Big Farewell Lyrics as written by Pekka Eero Rechardt Jim Pembroke
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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