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 hit the bottle in the morning in the summer time
I quit my job cause it gets in the way
I find a party by the ocean buy the cheapest wine,
Tell my friends to come and waste the day.
I got a dime bag, corduroys, colored sleeves,
And a bindle with some LSD.
Now I'm just looking for a girl to meet to help me forget my name.
I could spend my lifetime getting high,
Never wanna live in suit and tie.
Most of us are just living a lie,
Drunk getting fucked up every night.
I'm getting drunk all night I'm getting drunk all day
I'm getting drunk all night I'm sorry but I have to say,
I'm too drunk to fuck.
Now the party was jumping and the girls were fine with the lipstick summer glaze.
I got so many women coming after me I put some pussy on layaway.
I was smoked out, tore up, drunk as fuck,
And I wouldn't wanna change a thing.
Young and dumb and full of cum with a sugar loaded candy cane.
I could spend my lifetime getting high.
Never wanna live in suit and tie.
Most of us are just living a lie,
Drink getting fucked up every night.
I'm getting drunk all night I'm getting drunk all day
I'm getting drunk all night I'm getting drunk all day
I'm getting drunk all night I'm getting drunk all day
I'm getting drunk all night,
I'm sorry but I have to say.
I'm too drunk to fuck you!
Yeah I'm too drunk to fuck you (guitar plays for a bit).
I can't eat cant sleep and I'm bored as fuck and the girl I want just walked away.
She just found out I'm too drunk to fuck,
Looks like I'm not getting laid.
I could spend my lifetime getting high,
Never wanna live in suit and tie.
Most of us are just living a lie,
Drunk getting fucked up every night.
I'm getting drunk all night I'm getting drunk all day
I'm getting drunk all night I'm getting drunk all day
I'm getting drunk all night I'm getting drunk all day
I'm getting drunk all night.
I'm sorry but I have to say,
I'm too drunk to f**k you! [repeat: x3]
I quit my job cause it gets in the way
I find a party by the ocean buy the cheapest wine,
Tell my friends to come and waste the day.
I got a dime bag, corduroys, colored sleeves,
And a bindle with some LSD.
Now I'm just looking for a girl to meet to help me forget my name.
I could spend my lifetime getting high,
Never wanna live in suit and tie.
Most of us are just living a lie,
Drunk getting fucked up every night.
I'm getting drunk all night I'm getting drunk all day
I'm getting drunk all night I'm sorry but I have to say,
I'm too drunk to fuck.
Now the party was jumping and the girls were fine with the lipstick summer glaze.
I got so many women coming after me I put some pussy on layaway.
I was smoked out, tore up, drunk as fuck,
And I wouldn't wanna change a thing.
Young and dumb and full of cum with a sugar loaded candy cane.
I could spend my lifetime getting high.
Never wanna live in suit and tie.
Most of us are just living a lie,
Drink getting fucked up every night.
I'm getting drunk all night I'm getting drunk all day
I'm getting drunk all night I'm getting drunk all day
I'm getting drunk all night I'm getting drunk all day
I'm getting drunk all night,
I'm sorry but I have to say.
I'm too drunk to fuck you!
Yeah I'm too drunk to fuck you (guitar plays for a bit).
I can't eat cant sleep and I'm bored as fuck and the girl I want just walked away.
She just found out I'm too drunk to fuck,
Looks like I'm not getting laid.
I could spend my lifetime getting high,
Never wanna live in suit and tie.
Most of us are just living a lie,
Drunk getting fucked up every night.
I'm getting drunk all night I'm getting drunk all day
I'm getting drunk all night I'm getting drunk all day
I'm getting drunk all night I'm getting drunk all day
I'm getting drunk all night.
I'm sorry but I have to say,
I'm too drunk to f**k you! [repeat: x3]
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Too Drunk... Lyrics as written by Keith Nelson Joshua Todd
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