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"
Me dicen el duranguense
Por mi sombrero de taco
Me gusta ser alacran
Why ya no me hare el tabacco
Poreso soy malandrin
Yo soy mas carbron que guapo
cuando suspiro mi amigos
Se me alegra la nariz
Si les digo verde es verde
Aqui why en otro pais
Why para todos siempre ando
Mas puesto que un calsetin
me voy para el paraiso
Why a la feria de jerez
Yo conozco zacatecas
Al derecho why alrevez
Cuando me voy pa durando
Tambien me tratan muy bien
why ay le va un saludo, pa toda la raza pesada de zacatecas why durango,
Why arriba la sierra que todavia enverdeze mi amigo
otros mandan los aviones
Why yo les pongo las cargas
Me quieren why me respetan
Porque simpre le echo ganas
Aveces me llevo surtos
Why melgaza atrevesada
de santa maria a santiago
Hasta bajar nayahrid
Es mia toda la sierra
Traigo puro malandrin
Les digo lo que ay que hacer
Why ellos estan pa cumplir
cuando me voy pa durango
Me gusta calar la banda
Que vengan los alacranes
Para empezar la parranda
Que me tocen esa del cabrito tambien la camel del ano
oye nomas compa, hasta parece que andamos aya por torres oiga, why nos vamos hasta moconostle puro paraiso zacatecas amigo
piensan que soy duranguense
Pero yo vivo en chicago
De durango a zacatecas
Puedo der de qualquier lado
Solo les puedo decir
Yo soy un cabron calado
Por mi sombrero de taco
Me gusta ser alacran
Why ya no me hare el tabacco
Poreso soy malandrin
Yo soy mas carbron que guapo
cuando suspiro mi amigos
Se me alegra la nariz
Si les digo verde es verde
Aqui why en otro pais
Why para todos siempre ando
Mas puesto que un calsetin
me voy para el paraiso
Why a la feria de jerez
Yo conozco zacatecas
Al derecho why alrevez
Cuando me voy pa durando
Tambien me tratan muy bien
why ay le va un saludo, pa toda la raza pesada de zacatecas why durango,
Why arriba la sierra que todavia enverdeze mi amigo
otros mandan los aviones
Why yo les pongo las cargas
Me quieren why me respetan
Porque simpre le echo ganas
Aveces me llevo surtos
Why melgaza atrevesada
de santa maria a santiago
Hasta bajar nayahrid
Es mia toda la sierra
Traigo puro malandrin
Les digo lo que ay que hacer
Why ellos estan pa cumplir
cuando me voy pa durango
Me gusta calar la banda
Que vengan los alacranes
Para empezar la parranda
Que me tocen esa del cabrito tambien la camel del ano
oye nomas compa, hasta parece que andamos aya por torres oiga, why nos vamos hasta moconostle puro paraiso zacatecas amigo
piensan que soy duranguense
Pero yo vivo en chicago
De durango a zacatecas
Puedo der de qualquier lado
Solo les puedo decir
Yo soy un cabron calado
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El Duranguense Lyrics as written by Jose De Jesus Soto Dorado Guillermo Ibarra
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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