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"
It's been a long time since I've wore this rattle snake smile
A lot of my friends haven't seen it in quite a while
I feel my eyes rollin' deep inside my head
And there's a feeling of misconception in the air
Then I started to see
I do believe
Well I use to have a soft Southern glowing face
And I used to leave my heartaches with the chase
When you get stung with a heart of a little child
Well that's how you get that rattle snake smile
Well you better keep your distance from this stinger and shape I'm in.
Now no one better touch me right now in this cold blooded thick skin
Aww I think you better run real fast when you hear that rattling sound
Well you better run real fast man or this one's gonna knock you down
I sit alone and try to shed this skin that I'm livin in
We're trying to clear my vision once again hoaw!
Well I ain't no good and no no how matter right now
'Cause I got to run myself and I've got to run now
Do I look like something you can put in a fucking cage?
Come on over here and give me a kiss
I I I started to see
I I I do believe
Better keep your distance from this stinger and shape I'm in
Now no one better touch me right now in this cold blooded thick skin
Yeah well nah son you better run real fast when you hear that rattling sound
Well son you better run real fast man or this one's gonna knock you down
We sit alone in the desert rain with my tail in the air. Oh
A lot of my friends haven't seen it in quite a while
I feel my eyes rollin' deep inside my head
And there's a feeling of misconception in the air
Then I started to see
I do believe
Well I use to have a soft Southern glowing face
And I used to leave my heartaches with the chase
When you get stung with a heart of a little child
Well that's how you get that rattle snake smile
Well you better keep your distance from this stinger and shape I'm in.
Now no one better touch me right now in this cold blooded thick skin
Aww I think you better run real fast when you hear that rattling sound
Well you better run real fast man or this one's gonna knock you down
I sit alone and try to shed this skin that I'm livin in
We're trying to clear my vision once again hoaw!
Well I ain't no good and no no how matter right now
'Cause I got to run myself and I've got to run now
Do I look like something you can put in a fucking cage?
Come on over here and give me a kiss
I I I started to see
I I I do believe
Better keep your distance from this stinger and shape I'm in
Now no one better touch me right now in this cold blooded thick skin
Yeah well nah son you better run real fast when you hear that rattling sound
Well son you better run real fast man or this one's gonna knock you down
We sit alone in the desert rain with my tail in the air. Oh
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Love this song: "Do I look like something you can put in a fucking cage?"