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"
Yeah, we were sixteen and teenage broke
Back when stop signs and cigarettes smoke
Just some bad boys and some good girls, yeah
Summer nights, spent the whole world
In your green eyes and reddish set gold
Yeah, we had big love in a small town
What I'd give just to get a little bit back now
Yeah, we fell in just as fast as we fell out
We were too young to settle down and a big love in a small town
In a small town, yeah
We were thunderbirds and Pontiac wild
Flying in your front seat at least for a little while
Baby, tell me do you ever feel like
Our love was drowned out by a real light?
I've been reminiscing 'bout you and I, you and I, oh you and I
We had big love in a small town
What I'd give just to get a little bit back now
Yeah, we fell in just as fast as we fell out
We were too young to settle down and a big love in a small town
In a small town, baby
Do you ever think about me
When you close your eyes at night?
Do you ever think about me?
Lost in a dream
In a small town
In a small town
We had big love in a small town
What I'd give just to get a little bit back now
Yeah, we fell in just as fast as we fell out
We were too young to settle down always distant and in and out
Ain't that the thing about big love in a small town?
In a small town, yeah
Back when stop signs and cigarettes smoke
Just some bad boys and some good girls, yeah
Summer nights, spent the whole world
In your green eyes and reddish set gold
Yeah, we had big love in a small town
What I'd give just to get a little bit back now
Yeah, we fell in just as fast as we fell out
We were too young to settle down and a big love in a small town
In a small town, yeah
We were thunderbirds and Pontiac wild
Flying in your front seat at least for a little while
Baby, tell me do you ever feel like
Our love was drowned out by a real light?
I've been reminiscing 'bout you and I, you and I, oh you and I
We had big love in a small town
What I'd give just to get a little bit back now
Yeah, we fell in just as fast as we fell out
We were too young to settle down and a big love in a small town
In a small town, baby
Do you ever think about me
When you close your eyes at night?
Do you ever think about me?
Lost in a dream
In a small town
In a small town
We had big love in a small town
What I'd give just to get a little bit back now
Yeah, we fell in just as fast as we fell out
We were too young to settle down always distant and in and out
Ain't that the thing about big love in a small town?
In a small town, yeah
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