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"
At a truck stop in St Angelo
Saw a bill board about this rodeo
This weekend out in El Paso
So I signed up to ride
I drew a bull called "original sin"
Heard he'd killed a couple of men
Figured this was something I could win
'Cause the devil was on my side
I was havin' myself one hell of a ride
But I ended up disqualified
That bull just up and died
Before they blew the whistle
[Chorus]
With those north Texas blues,
Thought I'd paid all my dues
Then those south Texas blues,
Told me "son, you ain't through"
Had the east Texas blues and the west Texas too
I've done all I know to do,
Tryin' to lose, tryin' to lose,
These ol' Lone Star Blues.
Well I got laid off at Brown and Rue
Then on my way back to cuttin' chute
I lost my wrist watch and my boots
Shootin' dice with a dude from Houston
Well there ain't no jobs here workin' cattle
So I got on the part time haulin' gravel
With some outfit from Seattle out here building custom homes
[Chorus]
Well I gassed my truck and I packed my clothes
Turned in my key and I hit the road
I said "cow town's where I'll go,
You never know, I might get lucky!"
Well I got a friend there turning knobs
At a place called Billy Bobs
Said thought he could get me a job there
Workin' as a bouncer
First night on the job was just insane
Some ol' boy got all deranged
Hit me in the head with a Harley chain
To this day, my ears still ring!
[Chorus]
I've done all I know to do,
Tryin' to lose, tryin' to lose
These ol' Lone Star blues
Saw a bill board about this rodeo
This weekend out in El Paso
So I signed up to ride
I drew a bull called "original sin"
Heard he'd killed a couple of men
Figured this was something I could win
'Cause the devil was on my side
I was havin' myself one hell of a ride
But I ended up disqualified
That bull just up and died
Before they blew the whistle
[Chorus]
With those north Texas blues,
Thought I'd paid all my dues
Then those south Texas blues,
Told me "son, you ain't through"
Had the east Texas blues and the west Texas too
I've done all I know to do,
Tryin' to lose, tryin' to lose,
These ol' Lone Star Blues.
Well I got laid off at Brown and Rue
Then on my way back to cuttin' chute
I lost my wrist watch and my boots
Shootin' dice with a dude from Houston
Well there ain't no jobs here workin' cattle
So I got on the part time haulin' gravel
With some outfit from Seattle out here building custom homes
[Chorus]
Well I gassed my truck and I packed my clothes
Turned in my key and I hit the road
I said "cow town's where I'll go,
You never know, I might get lucky!"
Well I got a friend there turning knobs
At a place called Billy Bobs
Said thought he could get me a job there
Workin' as a bouncer
First night on the job was just insane
Some ol' boy got all deranged
Hit me in the head with a Harley chain
To this day, my ears still ring!
[Chorus]
I've done all I know to do,
Tryin' to lose, tryin' to lose
These ol' Lone Star blues
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