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"
Oh baby, gotta get out the map
I'm somewhere down I can't find
I been watchin' the clock
Any place but not the right time yeah
And under the sun
Lace up my boots and go on
Gotta strike a match
And let it burn
When all the smoke was clearing out
Oh yeah, I was on my own
I ain't coming home to you
I was born to roam the streets
Yeah
They say a man lives in chains but he is born free
He's born free
I was in the thick of it, boy, I was in the pines
I followed a crippled creek back to the source and I went inside
And now I'm inside
Oh baby, I gotta get out the map
I'm somewhere down I can't find
I been watchin' the clock
Any place but not the right time yeah
And under the sun
Lace up my boots and go on
Gotta strike a match
And let it burn
The days been growing stranger
I been holding up fists of rage and I need a change
But you been getting lazy this time
I got you dead to rights and I'm ready to fight
I was in the thick of it, boy, I was in the pines
I followed a crippled creek back to the source and I went inside
And now I'm inside
Oh baby, gotta get out the map
I'm somewhere down I can't find
I been watchin' the clock
Any place but not the right time yeah
And under the sun
Lace up my boots and go on
Gotta strike a match
And let it burn
The nights are travelling on
The nights are travelling on
The nights are travelling on
The nights are travelling on
The nights are travelling on
I'm somewhere down I can't find
I been watchin' the clock
Any place but not the right time yeah
And under the sun
Lace up my boots and go on
Gotta strike a match
And let it burn
When all the smoke was clearing out
Oh yeah, I was on my own
I ain't coming home to you
I was born to roam the streets
Yeah
They say a man lives in chains but he is born free
He's born free
I was in the thick of it, boy, I was in the pines
I followed a crippled creek back to the source and I went inside
And now I'm inside
Oh baby, I gotta get out the map
I'm somewhere down I can't find
I been watchin' the clock
Any place but not the right time yeah
And under the sun
Lace up my boots and go on
Gotta strike a match
And let it burn
The days been growing stranger
I been holding up fists of rage and I need a change
But you been getting lazy this time
I got you dead to rights and I'm ready to fight
I was in the thick of it, boy, I was in the pines
I followed a crippled creek back to the source and I went inside
And now I'm inside
Oh baby, gotta get out the map
I'm somewhere down I can't find
I been watchin' the clock
Any place but not the right time yeah
And under the sun
Lace up my boots and go on
Gotta strike a match
And let it burn
The nights are travelling on
The nights are travelling on
The nights are travelling on
The nights are travelling on
The nights are travelling on
Lyrics submitted by uselessaffluence
Travelin' On Lyrics as written by Hart Seely Christina Marie Halladay
Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
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