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"
Train roll on, on down the line
Won't you please take me far, far away
Now I feel the wind blow, outside my door
I'm leavin' my woman at home, oh yeah
Tuesday's gone with the wind
Oh my baby's gone, gone with the wind
And I don't know, oh, where I'm goin'
I just want to be left alone
When this train ends, I'll try again
I'm leavin' my woman at home
Tuesday's gone with the wind
Tuesday's gone with the wind
Tuesday's gone with the wind
My baby's gone, with the wind
Train roll on, Tuesday's gone
Train roll on many miles from my home, see I'm
I'm ridin' my blues, away yeah
But Tuesday you see, a she had to be free
Somehow I got to, to carry on
Tuesday's gone with the wind
Tuesday's gone with the wind
Tuesday's gone with the wind
My baby's gone, with the wind
Train roll on
My baby's gone
I'm ridin' my blues, baby
Tryin' to ridin' my blues
Ride on train
Ride on train
Ridin' my blues, baby
Goodbye Tuesday, goodbye Tuesday
Oh, oh, oh, train
Won't you please take me far, far away
Now I feel the wind blow, outside my door
I'm leavin' my woman at home, oh yeah
Tuesday's gone with the wind
Oh my baby's gone, gone with the wind
And I don't know, oh, where I'm goin'
I just want to be left alone
When this train ends, I'll try again
I'm leavin' my woman at home
Tuesday's gone with the wind
Tuesday's gone with the wind
Tuesday's gone with the wind
My baby's gone, with the wind
Train roll on, Tuesday's gone
Train roll on many miles from my home, see I'm
I'm ridin' my blues, away yeah
But Tuesday you see, a she had to be free
Somehow I got to, to carry on
Tuesday's gone with the wind
Tuesday's gone with the wind
Tuesday's gone with the wind
My baby's gone, with the wind
Train roll on
My baby's gone
I'm ridin' my blues, baby
Tryin' to ridin' my blues
Ride on train
Ride on train
Ridin' my blues, baby
Goodbye Tuesday, goodbye Tuesday
Oh, oh, oh, train
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Tuesday's Gone Lyrics as written by Ronnie Van Zant Allen Collins
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I think this song means he's leaving the love of his life, but not because he stopped loving her. It sounds to me like he's leaving her BECAUSE he loves her. Maybe he knew that he couldn't treat her the way she deserved and she wasn't as happy as she could be. ANd he loves her so much that instead of being with her...he just wants her to be happy. And then he wants to just get away...he still loves her and he wants to be with her...and its painful because he knows that she won't be happy until he's gone from her life. The line "Tuesday, you see, she had to be free" I think helps reinforce my point. He just wanted her to be free, he didn't want her to feel trapped with him...he wants her to be happy. Amazing song, every time I hear it I get weird feelings because there is this girl I am really in love with... I want to be with her so bad...but I don't think I'm right for her...as badly as I want to be with her, I just want her to be happy, whether thats with me or another guy. Which is strange, I always made fun of movies that said corny lines like that...but I actually understand it now.
That what u write is true im in that feeling right now in this moment, after 7 years with my girl i have to left her alone, her feeling and love to me is not like before i mean 5 or 3 years ago, but i still love her so much, im crying like a baby when im writing this. listening to this song couple times its makes me feel better. Worst thing is that I cant do anything just "jump on train" and wait what time will bring to me. I hope she will be happy and she makes her dreams come true. I will try to be like friend to her but it will be very difficult, right now i got a hope that maybe one day she will come back to me. Im little afraid what time will bring to me, Iam tough guy im not give up i will follow my dreams. hope You understand what i try to say my english is not so good.<br /> Kocham Cię Asiu podążaj za marzeniami... Michał
This was dubbed my song by my best friend. He got me addicted to Skynyrd a few years ago, and we went to see them last summer. They played Tuesday's Gone and I cried through the whole song because I was so impressed, and I got to see Skynyrd with my two best friends (they're brother and sister). I won't ever forget the moment the band started to play my song. It was the most amazing thing ever. I guess you can see where I got my screen name.
Anyway, if you've never listened to this song, I suggest you should. It's amazing, and beautiful.
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But don't take my word for it -- read some William Faulkner :) (especially The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying).
I will also associate this song with Happy Gilmour, great song and hilarious movie.
your joking right lol i do to but you spelled gilmore wrong
awesome intro riff
I love this song. 1st time I heard it was a coupke of days after my friend died. Heard it in the car while we went to the funeral home. It was one of his favorite songs. Ironically, he died on a Tuesday, which makes this song even more meaningful to me.
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I think it's about leaving everything behind, just severing the umbilical cord of society, quitting your job, abandoning your loved ones for a greater cause, in order to travel without any particular goal, or in order to 'find' oneself perhaps. Sounds kinda gay but that was my impression of this song.
This song is about being forced to leave someone who no longer loves you but you are still madly in love with them. Giving that person the ability to have their space and you are forced to carry on with your life no matter how much it hurts. How you want to run as far as you can away but with the hopes that they will eventually come back around and when they do you will be willing to try it again.
"a she had to be free Somehow I got to, to carry on"
There you have it it's a big clue as to what's going on..... She's not in love with him or for whatever reason she wants, needs to be free he loves her but has to let her go and carry on maybe one day he'll try again for love but for now he's gotta get away from it all......
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an excellent tune - definitely one of rock n rolls finest. Takes me back to losin my 1st love,playin this song over and over sat in my room, thinking of her.This song always takes me back to her...