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"
She is benediction
She is addicted to thee
She is the root connection
She is connecting with he
Here I go and I don't know why
I flow so ceaselessly
Could it be he's taking over me
I'm dancing barefoot
Headin' for a spin
Some strange music draws me in
It makes me come on like some heroine
She is sublimation
She is the essence of thee
She is concentrating on
He, the chosen of she
Here I go, and I don't know why
I spin so ceaselessly
Could it be he's taking over me
I'm dancing barefoot
Headin' for a spin
Some strange music draws me in
Makes me come on like some heroine
She is recreation
She intoxicated by thee
She has the slow sensation that
He is levitating with she
Here I go, and I don't know why
I spin so ceaselessly
'Til I lose my sense of gravity
I'm dancing barefoot
In mid-air I spin
Some strange music draws me in
Makes me come on like some heroine
Oh, God, I fell for you
Oh, God, I fell for you
The plot of our life sweats in the dark like a face
Oh, God, I fell for you
The mystery of childbirth, of childhood itself
Grave visitations
Oh, God, I fell for you
What is it that calls to us?
Why must we pray screaming?
Why must not death be redefined?
Oh, God, I fell for you
We shut our eyes we stretch out our arms
Oh, God, I fell for you
And whirl on a pane of glass
Oh, God, I fell for you
An affixation, a fix on anything, the line of life, the limb of a tree
Oh, God, I fell for you
The hands of he and the promise
That she is blessed among women
Oh, God, I fell for you
Oh, God, I fell for you
She is addicted to thee
She is the root connection
She is connecting with he
Here I go and I don't know why
I flow so ceaselessly
Could it be he's taking over me
I'm dancing barefoot
Headin' for a spin
Some strange music draws me in
It makes me come on like some heroine
She is sublimation
She is the essence of thee
She is concentrating on
He, the chosen of she
Here I go, and I don't know why
I spin so ceaselessly
Could it be he's taking over me
I'm dancing barefoot
Headin' for a spin
Some strange music draws me in
Makes me come on like some heroine
She is recreation
She intoxicated by thee
She has the slow sensation that
He is levitating with she
Here I go, and I don't know why
I spin so ceaselessly
'Til I lose my sense of gravity
I'm dancing barefoot
In mid-air I spin
Some strange music draws me in
Makes me come on like some heroine
Oh, God, I fell for you
Oh, God, I fell for you
The plot of our life sweats in the dark like a face
Oh, God, I fell for you
The mystery of childbirth, of childhood itself
Grave visitations
Oh, God, I fell for you
What is it that calls to us?
Why must we pray screaming?
Why must not death be redefined?
Oh, God, I fell for you
We shut our eyes we stretch out our arms
Oh, God, I fell for you
And whirl on a pane of glass
Oh, God, I fell for you
An affixation, a fix on anything, the line of life, the limb of a tree
Oh, God, I fell for you
The hands of he and the promise
That she is blessed among women
Oh, God, I fell for you
Oh, God, I fell for you
Lyrics submitted by Maraja, edited by ElizaBetaSixx
Dancing Barefoot Lyrics as written by Patti Lee Smith Ivan Kral
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Does anyone here know how Patti actually wrote that line?