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"
Up and down streets of a no-name town
Me and her with the windows down
35s rolling on the ground
Loving every minute
Skoal peach in the side of the door
Coke cans rolling on the floor
No, I never wanted nothing more
Yeah, that was living
I drove her to work, drove her to school
I drove her to PCB
I jacked it up, loaded it down
With all my friends and me
I grew up in it
Yeah, I got stuck in it
Playin' our song on the stereo
Drivin' 'til we ran outta road
Yeah, I broke up in it
I fell in love in it
Made a lifetime full of memories
On a half tank of gasoline
I learned just who I wasn't and who I was
In that old truck, mmm
In that old truck
I found a field, I put it in park
Blanket and a girl and a billion stars
Midnight buzz and a racing heart
When I leaned in to kiss her
I wrecked it good on some old back road
Had to call daddy to get her towed
Cussing out all that grass I mowed
Just saving up to fix her
Had some luck, fogged it up
And I ain't gonna lie
She heard me laugh, heard me cry
Heard me pray sometimes
I grew up in it
Yeah, I got stuck in it
Playin' our song on the stereo
Drivin' 'til we ran out of road
Yeah, I broke up in it
I fell in love in it
Made a lifetime full of memories
On a half tank of gasoline
I learned just who I wasn't and who I was
In that old truck, mmm
Yeah, in that old truck (yeah)
Yeah, you might think it's crazy
And you might not understand
But that hand-me-down on four wheels
Turned this boy into a man
Yeah, I grew up in it
I got stuck in it
Jamming our song on the stereo
Drivin' 'til we ran out of road
Yeah, I broke up in it
I fell in love in it
I made a lifetime full of memories
On a half tank of gasoline
Yeah, I learned who I wasn't and who I was
But yeah, whoever's got it now, I hope they love
That old truck, mmm
Yeah, that old truck
That old truck, mmm
Me and her with the windows down
35s rolling on the ground
Loving every minute
Skoal peach in the side of the door
Coke cans rolling on the floor
No, I never wanted nothing more
Yeah, that was living
I drove her to work, drove her to school
I drove her to PCB
I jacked it up, loaded it down
With all my friends and me
I grew up in it
Yeah, I got stuck in it
Playin' our song on the stereo
Drivin' 'til we ran outta road
Yeah, I broke up in it
I fell in love in it
Made a lifetime full of memories
On a half tank of gasoline
I learned just who I wasn't and who I was
In that old truck, mmm
In that old truck
I found a field, I put it in park
Blanket and a girl and a billion stars
Midnight buzz and a racing heart
When I leaned in to kiss her
I wrecked it good on some old back road
Had to call daddy to get her towed
Cussing out all that grass I mowed
Just saving up to fix her
Had some luck, fogged it up
And I ain't gonna lie
She heard me laugh, heard me cry
Heard me pray sometimes
I grew up in it
Yeah, I got stuck in it
Playin' our song on the stereo
Drivin' 'til we ran out of road
Yeah, I broke up in it
I fell in love in it
Made a lifetime full of memories
On a half tank of gasoline
I learned just who I wasn't and who I was
In that old truck, mmm
Yeah, in that old truck (yeah)
Yeah, you might think it's crazy
And you might not understand
But that hand-me-down on four wheels
Turned this boy into a man
Yeah, I grew up in it
I got stuck in it
Jamming our song on the stereo
Drivin' 'til we ran out of road
Yeah, I broke up in it
I fell in love in it
I made a lifetime full of memories
On a half tank of gasoline
Yeah, I learned who I wasn't and who I was
But yeah, whoever's got it now, I hope they love
That old truck, mmm
Yeah, that old truck
That old truck, mmm
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
That Old Truck Lyrics as written by Kamron Kimbro Julian C. Bunetta
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Downtown Music Publishing, Hipgnosis Songs Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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