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"
Have you heard 'bout Jo Ti Mahr?
Yeah yeah yeah
Well, then you could not be lost
Yeah yeah yeah
Which way are you comin' from?
Goin' up or gettin' down?
Well, have you thought about it some
Or have you put it down?
Have you heard about Heaven?
Yeah yeah yeah?
Seven come eleven
Yeah yeah yeah
Have you heard, dear brother?
Yeah yeah yeah
Well, let's help one another
Yeah yeah yeah
Have you heard? Oh yeah
Have you heard? Oh yeah
Have you heard? Oh yeah
...
Yeah yeah yeah
Well, then you could not be lost
Yeah yeah yeah
Which way are you comin' from?
Goin' up or gettin' down?
Well, have you thought about it some
Or have you put it down?
Have you heard about Heaven?
Yeah yeah yeah?
Seven come eleven
Yeah yeah yeah
Have you heard, dear brother?
Yeah yeah yeah
Well, let's help one another
Yeah yeah yeah
Have you heard? Oh yeah
Have you heard? Oh yeah
Have you heard? Oh yeah
...
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae, edited by ppan3, dave688626
Have You Heard? Lyrics as written by Dusty Hill Billy Gibbons
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Somebody please tell me...what is Jo Ti Mahr???
I love this song, but that line is a mystery.
@dave688626 It's Spanish: "Nacio te amar" or "I was born to love you." ZZ Top occasionally falls into a Gospel-Blues style of their roots, which is what this song is, as are a couple of others on Tres Hombres, including "Jesus Just Left Chicago," "Hot, Blue, and Righteous," and even "Waitin' for a Bus." Additionally, ZZ Top is also strongly influenced by the Hispanic culture of Texas, as well. So all of this... the Gospel-Blues style, the Hispanic phrase, and the meaning of the phrase itself in relation to the style of music makes WAY more sense than any Eastern esoterica. (The simplest will almost always be the most likely.) <br /> <br /> In other words, "If you've heard I was born to love you," says the Lord, "Then you could not be lost." This is the first stanza of the song. <br /> <br /> This same Christian Gospel-Blues pattern follows through the whole song, including the third stanza, as well: "Have you heard about Heaven? ... Seven come eleven." "Seven come eleven" is a craps term, and is an automatic win. In other words, from Christian theology, "Have you heard about Heaven? It's an automatic win." <br /> <br /> In order for this to be some Easter religion or philosophy, you have to (a) ignore ZZ Top's context and style; (b) mis-hear that first phrase; and (c) then figure out how that phrase connects to Eastern religion/philosophy. There are a lot of things that ZZ Top is; deep thinking lyricists is not one of them.
@ppan3, thanks for that. I never did buy the "Jo ti mahr" line, it's just that ALL the online lyric sites say that. Yours makes better sense in many ways, plus it actually sounds like what Billy Gibbons is saying! <br /> <br /> I'm going to edit the lyrics!