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 did some honky tonk healin' to get me over you
It took some neon nurses around the clock to pull me through
I was in critical condition my heart was broken in two
Due to honky tonk healin', I'm feeling good as new
Well thank you for callin' is all I can say
'Cause your get well wishes dear, are just a little too late
Did you think I'd be laid up, heartbroken and blue?
And missin' your kissin', well honey, here's the news
I did some honky tonk healin' to get me over you
It took some neon nurses around the clock to pull me through
I was in critical condition my heart was broken in two
Due to honky tonk healin', I'm feeling good as new
Drop by some evening, if you can catch me home
We'll share a few memories, if that's what you want
Don't be expecting the same fool, you left crying in vain
It's been a smooth operation they removed all the pain
I did some honky tonk healin' to get me over you
It took some neon nurses around the clock to pull me through
I was in critical condition my heart was broken in two
But due to honky tonk healin', I'm feeling good as new
Yeah, due to honky tonk healin', I'm feeling good as new
It took some neon nurses around the clock to pull me through
I was in critical condition my heart was broken in two
Due to honky tonk healin', I'm feeling good as new
Well thank you for callin' is all I can say
'Cause your get well wishes dear, are just a little too late
Did you think I'd be laid up, heartbroken and blue?
And missin' your kissin', well honey, here's the news
I did some honky tonk healin' to get me over you
It took some neon nurses around the clock to pull me through
I was in critical condition my heart was broken in two
Due to honky tonk healin', I'm feeling good as new
Drop by some evening, if you can catch me home
We'll share a few memories, if that's what you want
Don't be expecting the same fool, you left crying in vain
It's been a smooth operation they removed all the pain
I did some honky tonk healin' to get me over you
It took some neon nurses around the clock to pull me through
I was in critical condition my heart was broken in two
But due to honky tonk healin', I'm feeling good as new
Yeah, due to honky tonk healin', I'm feeling good as new
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Honky Tonk Healin' Lyrics as written by Tommy Polk David A Ball
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