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'm sittin' on the fender of someone else's truck
Drinkin' Old Crow Whiskey and hot 7-Up
Out in the parkin' lot
You can hear the band playin'
Right through the walls
Ain't no cover charge
Ain't no last call
Out in the parkin' lot
[Chorus]
Yeah, I love to see the neon dancin' on the gravel
And I love to hear the pickup trucks as they come unraveled
Some've given up
Some've given in
Seems like everybody's lookin' for a friend
Out in the parkin' lot
Whoops, there's a couple
Who couldn't wait to get home
They're probably in love so let's leave them alone
Out in the parkin' lot
There's a couple of cowboys
Puttin' up their dukes
But there weren't much to it after both of 'em puked
Out in the parkin' lot
[Chorus]
Now the band is on the bus
And they're all loaded up to leave
But the drummer's got a girlfriend
And she's tuggin' on his sleeve
Out in the parkin' lot
[Chorus]
I'm sittin' on the fender of someone else's truck
Drinkin' Old Crow Whiskey and hot 7-Up
Out in the parkin' lot
Drinkin' Old Crow Whiskey and hot 7-Up
Out in the parkin' lot
You can hear the band playin'
Right through the walls
Ain't no cover charge
Ain't no last call
Out in the parkin' lot
[Chorus]
Yeah, I love to see the neon dancin' on the gravel
And I love to hear the pickup trucks as they come unraveled
Some've given up
Some've given in
Seems like everybody's lookin' for a friend
Out in the parkin' lot
Whoops, there's a couple
Who couldn't wait to get home
They're probably in love so let's leave them alone
Out in the parkin' lot
There's a couple of cowboys
Puttin' up their dukes
But there weren't much to it after both of 'em puked
Out in the parkin' lot
[Chorus]
Now the band is on the bus
And they're all loaded up to leave
But the drummer's got a girlfriend
And she's tuggin' on his sleeve
Out in the parkin' lot
[Chorus]
I'm sittin' on the fender of someone else's truck
Drinkin' Old Crow Whiskey and hot 7-Up
Out in the parkin' lot
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Out in the Parkin' Lot Lyrics as written by Darrell Scott Guy Clark
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