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"
Red sky at morning, I still think of calling
You met me alone in the city
A fisherman's son, my dad liked to run
Can't picture your face, but I know it was pretty
Yeah, you drew me that night
I saw love in your eyes but I didn't know how to begin
When I walked you to mine, promised we'd take our time
Baby, some of us we ain't meant to win
Saddle up and ride on down
Maybe when the tide comes out
Come and find me
Waiting on the street where we met
Haven't found the time to forget
Funny what we lose, yeah when we bet
Hey
Red sky at night, I was holding too tight
You left me alone by the Thames
Under waterloo's shine, had a dream we were fine
Maybe somehow we were, in between
Still there's something 'bout men that I don't understand
They're always leaving wherever they've been
Brush it off with a shrug, I don't know much about love
Still I give it a try now and then
Saddle up and ride on down
Maybe when the tide comes out
Come and find me
Waiting on the street where we met
Haven't found the time to forget
Funny what we lose, yeah when we bet
Red skies all gone, I guess it's been long
I haven't gone back that much to your city
Still nothing compares to the night we were there
It's okay, I don't want any pity
Yeah, but spare me a thought if you got any heart
I know you had one deep inside
I don't miss you that much but, baby, watching you blush
Some of us, we just gotta ride
Some of us, we gotta saddle up and ride, saddle up and ride
Yeah, saddle up and ride
Saddle up and, and ride
Ooh
Saddle up and ride
You met me alone in the city
A fisherman's son, my dad liked to run
Can't picture your face, but I know it was pretty
Yeah, you drew me that night
I saw love in your eyes but I didn't know how to begin
When I walked you to mine, promised we'd take our time
Baby, some of us we ain't meant to win
Saddle up and ride on down
Maybe when the tide comes out
Come and find me
Waiting on the street where we met
Haven't found the time to forget
Funny what we lose, yeah when we bet
Hey
Red sky at night, I was holding too tight
You left me alone by the Thames
Under waterloo's shine, had a dream we were fine
Maybe somehow we were, in between
Still there's something 'bout men that I don't understand
They're always leaving wherever they've been
Brush it off with a shrug, I don't know much about love
Still I give it a try now and then
Saddle up and ride on down
Maybe when the tide comes out
Come and find me
Waiting on the street where we met
Haven't found the time to forget
Funny what we lose, yeah when we bet
Red skies all gone, I guess it's been long
I haven't gone back that much to your city
Still nothing compares to the night we were there
It's okay, I don't want any pity
Yeah, but spare me a thought if you got any heart
I know you had one deep inside
I don't miss you that much but, baby, watching you blush
Some of us, we just gotta ride
Some of us, we gotta saddle up and ride, saddle up and ride
Yeah, saddle up and ride
Saddle up and, and ride
Ooh
Saddle up and ride
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Blush Lyrics as written by Daniel Pitout
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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