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"
Remember Hannibal's march?
Yeah yeah yeah yeah,
Leaving elephant footprints and
Leading his boys across the Alps.
I think I know how he felt,
Yeah yeah yeah yeah,
Not just because it was tough
But the way his country eventually sold him out.
I think of what must have been his immense frustration
There in a land far away
With the prize so close he could almost taste it
Only to hear his leaders say...
Chorus
Way to go you did it even though you didn't do it though
Everybody here is feelin' right on
So drink a little, take a break a break I didn't really need, after that I know I'm goin' right on... Right!
Remember the second World War?
Yeah yeah yeah yeah,
A certain general George
He got in trouble for trying
Way too hard.
I think I know how he felt,
Yeah yeah yeah yeah,
I know it sounds crazy
But I tend to get too wrapped up in work.
But me and Patton seem to share that immense frustration
It's megalomaniacal I know,
Wanting something so bad you can almost taste it
Then dragged down by the voices from below that say:
Chorus
Way to go you're done you've gone as far as you will ever go
Everybody here is feelin' right on
So drink a little take a break a break I didn't really need
After that I know I'm goin' right on.
I know that I'm not alone
The treasure of my heart is calling on the telephone
I got my friends around me they don't seem to hate me yet
My family lends me cash and they're not strict about the debt
And the world is a place where the most important thing you can learn is this:
To submit to the will of the man upstairs and don't get too wrapped up in yourself.
And so I guess this is kind of an immature prayer for people trying to find their own way,
A request for strength and
A reminder to resist what the well-meaning naysayers say
When they say:
Chorus
Way to go you did it even though you didn't do it though
Everybody here is feelin' right on
So drink a little, take a break a break I didn't really need, after that I know I'm goin' right on.
Way to go you're done you've gone as far as you will ever go
Everybody here is feelin' right on
So drink a little take a break a break I didn't really need
After that I know I'm goin' right on...
Right on.... Yo-oh-oh-oh!
Right on.... Yo-oh-oh-oh!
Right on.... Yo-oh-oh-oh...
Yeah yeah yeah yeah,
Leaving elephant footprints and
Leading his boys across the Alps.
I think I know how he felt,
Yeah yeah yeah yeah,
Not just because it was tough
But the way his country eventually sold him out.
I think of what must have been his immense frustration
There in a land far away
With the prize so close he could almost taste it
Only to hear his leaders say...
Chorus
Way to go you did it even though you didn't do it though
Everybody here is feelin' right on
So drink a little, take a break a break I didn't really need, after that I know I'm goin' right on... Right!
Remember the second World War?
Yeah yeah yeah yeah,
A certain general George
He got in trouble for trying
Way too hard.
I think I know how he felt,
Yeah yeah yeah yeah,
I know it sounds crazy
But I tend to get too wrapped up in work.
But me and Patton seem to share that immense frustration
It's megalomaniacal I know,
Wanting something so bad you can almost taste it
Then dragged down by the voices from below that say:
Chorus
Way to go you're done you've gone as far as you will ever go
Everybody here is feelin' right on
So drink a little take a break a break I didn't really need
After that I know I'm goin' right on.
I know that I'm not alone
The treasure of my heart is calling on the telephone
I got my friends around me they don't seem to hate me yet
My family lends me cash and they're not strict about the debt
And the world is a place where the most important thing you can learn is this:
To submit to the will of the man upstairs and don't get too wrapped up in yourself.
And so I guess this is kind of an immature prayer for people trying to find their own way,
A request for strength and
A reminder to resist what the well-meaning naysayers say
When they say:
Chorus
Way to go you did it even though you didn't do it though
Everybody here is feelin' right on
So drink a little, take a break a break I didn't really need, after that I know I'm goin' right on.
Way to go you're done you've gone as far as you will ever go
Everybody here is feelin' right on
So drink a little take a break a break I didn't really need
After that I know I'm goin' right on...
Right on.... Yo-oh-oh-oh!
Right on.... Yo-oh-oh-oh!
Right on.... Yo-oh-oh-oh...
Lyrics submitted by Hooper_X
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