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"
Trouble and pain are one and the same
When luck runs out, well it's all about, yeah
When hard times are hard at the end of the day, yeah
You'll get what you got comin'
There's a whole lotta hope in all their gold
What looks like it is could be a friend, yeah
Out of all the lessons we learned to clear the way, yeah
You get what you got comin'
You'll get back what you give
Maybe that's the only way to live
What goes round, now and then
Comes again
(It comes again)
You get what you got comin'
Ah yeah
What you got comin'
What color you like and what does it mean
It's all or nothin', there ain't no in between, no
(There ain't no in between, no)
Leave nothin' to chance 'cause there comes a day, yeah
You'll get what you got comin'
(You're gonna get it, you're gonna get it)
You'll get back what you give
Baby, that's the only way to live
What goes round, now and then
Comes again, oh yeah
You'll get back what you give
Maybe that's the only way to, only way to
What goes round, now and then
It comes again
(It comes again)
You'll get what you got
You'll get what you got
Get what you got comin'
Baby get what you got comin'
(Get what you got, get what you got)
What you got comin'
(Get what you got)
You get what you got comin'
(Get what you got)
No no no
(Get what you got)
You get what you got comin'
(Get what you got)
When luck runs out, well it's all about, yeah
When hard times are hard at the end of the day, yeah
You'll get what you got comin'
There's a whole lotta hope in all their gold
What looks like it is could be a friend, yeah
Out of all the lessons we learned to clear the way, yeah
You get what you got comin'
You'll get back what you give
Maybe that's the only way to live
What goes round, now and then
Comes again
(It comes again)
You get what you got comin'
Ah yeah
What you got comin'
What color you like and what does it mean
It's all or nothin', there ain't no in between, no
(There ain't no in between, no)
Leave nothin' to chance 'cause there comes a day, yeah
You'll get what you got comin'
(You're gonna get it, you're gonna get it)
You'll get back what you give
Baby, that's the only way to live
What goes round, now and then
Comes again, oh yeah
You'll get back what you give
Maybe that's the only way to, only way to
What goes round, now and then
It comes again
(It comes again)
You'll get what you got
You'll get what you got
Get what you got comin'
Baby get what you got comin'
(Get what you got, get what you got)
What you got comin'
(Get what you got)
You get what you got comin'
(Get what you got)
No no no
(Get what you got)
You get what you got comin'
(Get what you got)
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Get What You Got Comin Lyrics as written by Donnie Van Zant Chris Pelcer
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