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 ya knock on my door
I ain't been saving this scene for ya honey
Don't wantcha ringin' my bell
It's too late for you to be my honey
Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love
Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love
Don't want you wasting my time
Tired of ya doing the things that you do
It's no use standing in line
Follow the line, you better follow queue
I say, oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love
Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love, my my own
I could sail a river run dead, but I know it's dead
I could I wish for a million, yeah but I know it's dead
I could cry within the darkness, I sail away
I save a lifetime forever?
But you know, you know, you know what I say
And I say oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love
Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love, my my own
Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love
Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love, my own true love
My own true love, my own true love
My own true love
I said Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love
Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love, my own
I ain't been saving this scene for ya honey
Don't wantcha ringin' my bell
It's too late for you to be my honey
Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love
Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love
Don't want you wasting my time
Tired of ya doing the things that you do
It's no use standing in line
Follow the line, you better follow queue
I say, oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love
Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love, my my own
I could sail a river run dead, but I know it's dead
I could I wish for a million, yeah but I know it's dead
I could cry within the darkness, I sail away
I save a lifetime forever?
But you know, you know, you know what I say
And I say oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love
Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love, my my own
Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love
Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love, my own true love
My own true love, my own true love
My own true love
I said Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love
Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love, my own
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Just A Little Lovin'
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If you haven't got anything nice to say about LED ZEPPELIN - then keep your friggin mouth shut. Or I'll have to drop kick you in the face. This song vibes with the spirit of Led Zep.
i think its about getting rid of a once close person, and not wanting to see them anymore but they keep coming around and bugging you.
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The line "i could sail a river run dead" is brutal. if a guy ever said that about me i would, as those with very little lives would say, "drop kick him in the face." they're basically saying i COULD give you a shot, honey, but youre just not worth my time and i dont care enough about you to try and make this work. I had this problem with a guy once. great guy, liked him a lot, but he was just such a jerk that i just didnt have the energy to try to make it work, he was freakin hopeless. sorry for the borin anecdote, but thats what this song means to me. its the sweetest form of satisfaction when you can look a person in the face and say, its pointless. and does anybody else like the "dont want you ringin my bell"?? you think thats literal?? =]
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this song is awsome and SelectHickory if this song gives you a headache then you can't handle zeppelin
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