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"
I hear my angel mounted baby
Pretend to everlast a lady
Marlboro belt unbuckled baby
They told me you were just crazy
I feel that I could burst
Gimme a little drink of yr sweet time
Is it the way you think?
Or just a pattern of yr glory
Is it just some story?
You wrote all for me
Do you think yr my home?
Down deep yr just a little whorey
I know you, I'm from you
I know you, I'm from you
Who
I'm coming home to Swall Drive
Cowboys are languishin'
Little girl's are bees
Is it really a green stage coach
Crawling up to me
I dreamt that you were my vacation
Woke to find desire and dislocation
Yr always heavy in rotation
Coming on, flirting with the nation
I feel that I could burst
Gimme a little drink of yr sweet shine
Why is the way you grew ?
Still in the soul wanting you ?
Smelling the night jasmine
Hypnotises me
The flower tells me stories
That make me sick and free
I know you, I'm from you
I know you, I'm from you
Who
I'm coming home momma, to Swall Drive
Alice is a chain store
Down past 1st and Vine
You can shop there anytime
It's all very fine
Look his hair is colored, do you think he grows
Look it's changing colors, it's bigger than a hose ?
Look it's changing colors, it's bigger than a rose ?
Look it's changing colors, it's bigger than a pose ?
Look it's changing colors, it's bigger than a hose ?
Look it's changing
Pretend to everlast a lady
Marlboro belt unbuckled baby
They told me you were just crazy
I feel that I could burst
Gimme a little drink of yr sweet time
Is it the way you think?
Or just a pattern of yr glory
Is it just some story?
You wrote all for me
Do you think yr my home?
Down deep yr just a little whorey
I know you, I'm from you
I know you, I'm from you
Who
I'm coming home to Swall Drive
Cowboys are languishin'
Little girl's are bees
Is it really a green stage coach
Crawling up to me
I dreamt that you were my vacation
Woke to find desire and dislocation
Yr always heavy in rotation
Coming on, flirting with the nation
I feel that I could burst
Gimme a little drink of yr sweet shine
Why is the way you grew ?
Still in the soul wanting you ?
Smelling the night jasmine
Hypnotises me
The flower tells me stories
That make me sick and free
I know you, I'm from you
I know you, I'm from you
Who
I'm coming home momma, to Swall Drive
Alice is a chain store
Down past 1st and Vine
You can shop there anytime
It's all very fine
Look his hair is colored, do you think he grows
Look it's changing colors, it's bigger than a hose ?
Look it's changing colors, it's bigger than a rose ?
Look it's changing colors, it's bigger than a pose ?
Look it's changing colors, it's bigger than a hose ?
Look it's changing
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I think that this song is, quite simply, a love song. This album was released pretty close to the time when Kim and Thruston had their kid, so, I honestly think that Kim probably wrote the lyrics for Thurston.
Regardless, the lyrics aren't what make this song so great. It's simply the sound, the harmony of it, and Kim's voice, all rolled into one. I swear, everytime it gets to that second chorus, that second WHOOO, I'm about a second away from bursting out into tears. Then, after that, the song starts to 'come down', as it were. That entire, "look it's changing colors, it's bigger than a...", where it gets quieter, and quieter, until it's a whisper, and just ends. It evokes feelings of a buildup, climax, then contentment. The perfect song, in my mind. Not only that, but it's beautiful.