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"
Everybodys worryin bout the drugs today
tellin our kids just what to say
great big problem all through the land
gotta find ourselves a brand new plan
put em in jail just dont work
just ask my brother soloman buerk
what we gotta do is in the profit
money is the key and we cant stop it
all this killin and corruption
couldnt be goin without usin a gun
What we gotta do?
Legalize it!
What we gotta do?
Legalize it!
What we gotta do?
Legalize it!
Gotta put them pushers right in the grave
all this murder and all this crime
there are so many people dyin
makin it illegals only made it worse
its like we got ourselves a great big curse
people think its cool cause its our law
think they rebel without a cause
we gotta help the sick and the addicted
but were killin ourselves with the new prohibition
our governments try to tell you what to do
decide for yourself whats right for you
if ya go too far and ya get outta hand
then ya take a little trip down to prison land
what we gotta do?
Legalize it!
What we gotta do?
Legalize it!
What we gotta do?
Legalize it!
Gotta put them pushers right in the grave
the war on drugs is gonna lose
gotta take away the profit like we did with booze
people who could buy for one tenth of the price
wouldnt need to rob or use a knife
gotta take the cash out of this illegal trade
education and the laws have said
always been people addicted to drugs
heroin, cocain, evil thugs
just cause somebody cant handle anything
dont mean we have to pay for their pain
nicotine, caffine, chainsaws and guns
gotta make your own regulations
psychedelic mushrooms good fo yo mind
if your ready to use em then ya outta try em
how did freedom mess up your life?
decide for yourself whats wrong and whats right
what we gotta do?
Legalize it!
What we gotta do?
Legalize it!
What we gotta do?
Legalize it!
Gotta put them pushers right in the grave
Yah what we gotta do?
Legalize it!
What we gotta do?
Legalize it!
What we gotta do?
Legalize it!
Gotta put them pushers right in the graaaaaave!!!!
tellin our kids just what to say
great big problem all through the land
gotta find ourselves a brand new plan
put em in jail just dont work
just ask my brother soloman buerk
what we gotta do is in the profit
money is the key and we cant stop it
all this killin and corruption
couldnt be goin without usin a gun
What we gotta do?
Legalize it!
What we gotta do?
Legalize it!
What we gotta do?
Legalize it!
Gotta put them pushers right in the grave
all this murder and all this crime
there are so many people dyin
makin it illegals only made it worse
its like we got ourselves a great big curse
people think its cool cause its our law
think they rebel without a cause
we gotta help the sick and the addicted
but were killin ourselves with the new prohibition
our governments try to tell you what to do
decide for yourself whats right for you
if ya go too far and ya get outta hand
then ya take a little trip down to prison land
what we gotta do?
Legalize it!
What we gotta do?
Legalize it!
What we gotta do?
Legalize it!
Gotta put them pushers right in the grave
the war on drugs is gonna lose
gotta take away the profit like we did with booze
people who could buy for one tenth of the price
wouldnt need to rob or use a knife
gotta take the cash out of this illegal trade
education and the laws have said
always been people addicted to drugs
heroin, cocain, evil thugs
just cause somebody cant handle anything
dont mean we have to pay for their pain
nicotine, caffine, chainsaws and guns
gotta make your own regulations
psychedelic mushrooms good fo yo mind
if your ready to use em then ya outta try em
how did freedom mess up your life?
decide for yourself whats wrong and whats right
what we gotta do?
Legalize it!
What we gotta do?
Legalize it!
What we gotta do?
Legalize it!
Gotta put them pushers right in the grave
Yah what we gotta do?
Legalize it!
What we gotta do?
Legalize it!
What we gotta do?
Legalize it!
Gotta put them pushers right in the graaaaaave!!!!
Lyrics submitted by JohnnyLurg
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