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"
The clouds are partin'
The summer suns startin' to burn down on that river
My baby's waitin'
I got the Chevy shaking
I'm blazing a trail to get her
There she is
Shes got her shades on
And man shes lookin' strong
Mine all mine for the weekend
The coolers loaded down
We're headed outta town
Jumpin' off the deep end
Goin' barefoot and crazy
Me and my baby
Back flip off the flip right bridge
Double dog dare me and I will
Meet me at the bottom with a cool wet kiss
Shes rockin' that bikini top
My hearts skippin' like a rock across that water
Don't ever wanna stop
Goin' barefoot and crazy
The sun is droppin'
We got the fire poppin' and
Its lightin' up her blue eyes
With a little bit of luck
It'll heat things up and
We'll be lovin' in the moonlight
Break out my old guitar
Sing fishin' in the dark
Baby get ready
We'll take a little sip
We'll take a little dip and
Sleep in the bed of my Chevy
Goin' barefoot and crazy
Me and my baby
Just me and her and the man in the moon
Drinkin' on a cold bud brew
Mornin's gonna come way too soon
We'll wake up and
Do it all again
Wishin' it would never end
Anybody asks where we've been
Tell em
Barefoot and crazy
Barefoot and crazy
Me and my baby
I did a back flip off the flip right bridge
Double dog dared me and I did
Met me at the bottom with a cool wet kiss
Shes rockin' that bikini top
My hearts skippin' like a rock across that water
Don't ever wanna stop
Goin' barefoot and crazy
Don't ever wanna stop
Don't ever wanna stop
Goin' barefoot and crazy
The summer suns startin' to burn down on that river
My baby's waitin'
I got the Chevy shaking
I'm blazing a trail to get her
There she is
Shes got her shades on
And man shes lookin' strong
Mine all mine for the weekend
The coolers loaded down
We're headed outta town
Jumpin' off the deep end
Goin' barefoot and crazy
Me and my baby
Back flip off the flip right bridge
Double dog dare me and I will
Meet me at the bottom with a cool wet kiss
Shes rockin' that bikini top
My hearts skippin' like a rock across that water
Don't ever wanna stop
Goin' barefoot and crazy
The sun is droppin'
We got the fire poppin' and
Its lightin' up her blue eyes
With a little bit of luck
It'll heat things up and
We'll be lovin' in the moonlight
Break out my old guitar
Sing fishin' in the dark
Baby get ready
We'll take a little sip
We'll take a little dip and
Sleep in the bed of my Chevy
Goin' barefoot and crazy
Me and my baby
Just me and her and the man in the moon
Drinkin' on a cold bud brew
Mornin's gonna come way too soon
We'll wake up and
Do it all again
Wishin' it would never end
Anybody asks where we've been
Tell em
Barefoot and crazy
Barefoot and crazy
Me and my baby
I did a back flip off the flip right bridge
Double dog dared me and I did
Met me at the bottom with a cool wet kiss
Shes rockin' that bikini top
My hearts skippin' like a rock across that water
Don't ever wanna stop
Goin' barefoot and crazy
Don't ever wanna stop
Don't ever wanna stop
Goin' barefoot and crazy
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Barefoot and Crazy Lyrics as written by Dallas Davidson Rhett Akins
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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