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"
When my uncle Sonny blew back into town
Said, "I'll just go for a ride and have a look around"
And he took off his fedora, stuck his fingers in the crown
And he pulled out twenty dollars and he laid that money down
And he called out to a taxi cab, "Take me down to central park
And keep that meter runnin' to the twenty dollar mark"
And he kept his eyes turned forward and he sat up straight and tall
And no one even noticed him, no one cared at all
It's a fine, fine day
For a reunion
It's a fine, fine day
For comin' home
You did your sittin' you did hard time
But you ain't gonna sit no more
They can't keep you there no more
It's a fine, fine day
And nothing's gonna take you
Nothing's gonna take you away
It's a fine, fine day
The first time I saw Sonny I was just about this tall
And he always made my momma kinda crazy when he'd call
Him and my old man would stand and whisper in the hall
Then they'd disappear and maybe not come home at all
Then one day Sonny stopped comin' around
Heard he'd gotten himself into a little trouble out in town
Sometime after that he finally disappeared for good
Then he pulled out ol' Houdini like we always knew he would
It's a fine, fine day
For a reunion
It's a fine, fine day
For comin' home
You did your sittin' you did hard time
But you ain't gonna sit no more
They can't keep you there no more
It's a fine, fine day, oh yeah
And nothing's gonna drag you
Nothing's gonna drag you away, oh yeah
It's a fine, fine day, a fine day
Ooh ooh ooh, a fine, fine day, a fine day
Ooh ooh ooh, a fine, fine day, a fine day
I see you made it back alright, alright
I see you're none the worse for wear
It's been a long time comin'
Nothing's gonna drag you away from here!
A fine, fine day, oh yeah
And nothing's gonna drag you
Nothing's gonna drag you away, oh yeah
A fine, fine day, oh yeah
A fine, fine day (Ooh ooh ooh, a fine, fine day)
And nothing's gonna drag you (a fine day)
Nothing's gonna drag you away, away (a fine, fine day)
A fine, fine day, a fine day
A fine, fine day
Said, "I'll just go for a ride and have a look around"
And he took off his fedora, stuck his fingers in the crown
And he pulled out twenty dollars and he laid that money down
And he called out to a taxi cab, "Take me down to central park
And keep that meter runnin' to the twenty dollar mark"
And he kept his eyes turned forward and he sat up straight and tall
And no one even noticed him, no one cared at all
It's a fine, fine day
For a reunion
It's a fine, fine day
For comin' home
You did your sittin' you did hard time
But you ain't gonna sit no more
They can't keep you there no more
It's a fine, fine day
And nothing's gonna take you
Nothing's gonna take you away
It's a fine, fine day
The first time I saw Sonny I was just about this tall
And he always made my momma kinda crazy when he'd call
Him and my old man would stand and whisper in the hall
Then they'd disappear and maybe not come home at all
Then one day Sonny stopped comin' around
Heard he'd gotten himself into a little trouble out in town
Sometime after that he finally disappeared for good
Then he pulled out ol' Houdini like we always knew he would
It's a fine, fine day
For a reunion
It's a fine, fine day
For comin' home
You did your sittin' you did hard time
But you ain't gonna sit no more
They can't keep you there no more
It's a fine, fine day, oh yeah
And nothing's gonna drag you
Nothing's gonna drag you away, oh yeah
It's a fine, fine day, a fine day
Ooh ooh ooh, a fine, fine day, a fine day
Ooh ooh ooh, a fine, fine day, a fine day
I see you made it back alright, alright
I see you're none the worse for wear
It's been a long time comin'
Nothing's gonna drag you away from here!
A fine, fine day, oh yeah
And nothing's gonna drag you
Nothing's gonna drag you away, oh yeah
A fine, fine day, oh yeah
A fine, fine day (Ooh ooh ooh, a fine, fine day)
And nothing's gonna drag you (a fine day)
Nothing's gonna drag you away, away (a fine, fine day)
A fine, fine day, a fine day
A fine, fine day
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A Fine, Fine Day Lyrics as written by Tony Carey
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