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"
There's a nail in the door
And there's glass on the lawn
Tacks on the floor and the TV is on
And I always sleep with my guns when you're gone
There's a blade by the bed
And a phone in my hand
A dog on the floor and some cash on the nightstand
When I'm all alone the dreaming stops
And I just can't stand
What should I do? I'm just a little baby
What if the lights go out and maybe
And then the wind just starts to moan
Outside the door and followed me home
Now goodnight moon, I want the sun
If it's not here soon I might be done
No, it won't be too soon 'til I say goodnight moon
There's a shark in the pool and a witch in the tree
A crazy old neighbor and he's been watching me
And there's footsteps loud and strong coming down the hall
Something's under the bed
Now it's out in the hedge
There's a big black crow sitting on my window ledge
And I hear something scratching through the wall
Oh, what should I do? I'm just a little baby
What if the lights go out and maybe
I just hate to be all alone
Outside the door it followed me home
Now goodnight moon, now I want the sun
If it's not here soon I might be done
No, it won't be too soon 'til I say goodnight moon
Well, you're up so high
How can you save me when the dark comes here
Tonight to take me out my front walk
And into bed where it kisses my face
And eats my head
What should I do? I'm just a little baby
What if the lights go out and maybe
And then the wind just starts to moan
Outside the door it followed me home
Now goodnight moon, now I want the sun
If it's not here soon I might be done
No, it won't be too soon 'til I say goodnight moon
No, it won't be too soon 'til I say goodnight moon
And there's glass on the lawn
Tacks on the floor and the TV is on
And I always sleep with my guns when you're gone
There's a blade by the bed
And a phone in my hand
A dog on the floor and some cash on the nightstand
When I'm all alone the dreaming stops
And I just can't stand
What should I do? I'm just a little baby
What if the lights go out and maybe
And then the wind just starts to moan
Outside the door and followed me home
Now goodnight moon, I want the sun
If it's not here soon I might be done
No, it won't be too soon 'til I say goodnight moon
There's a shark in the pool and a witch in the tree
A crazy old neighbor and he's been watching me
And there's footsteps loud and strong coming down the hall
Something's under the bed
Now it's out in the hedge
There's a big black crow sitting on my window ledge
And I hear something scratching through the wall
Oh, what should I do? I'm just a little baby
What if the lights go out and maybe
I just hate to be all alone
Outside the door it followed me home
Now goodnight moon, now I want the sun
If it's not here soon I might be done
No, it won't be too soon 'til I say goodnight moon
Well, you're up so high
How can you save me when the dark comes here
Tonight to take me out my front walk
And into bed where it kisses my face
And eats my head
What should I do? I'm just a little baby
What if the lights go out and maybe
And then the wind just starts to moan
Outside the door it followed me home
Now goodnight moon, now I want the sun
If it's not here soon I might be done
No, it won't be too soon 'til I say goodnight moon
No, it won't be too soon 'til I say goodnight moon
Lyrics submitted by weezerific:cutlery, edited by WillieCooke
Goodnight Moon Lyrics as written by Duke Mcvinnie Ambrosia Nicole Parsley
Lyrics © Hipgnosis Songs Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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To me, this song has always made me think of someone alone at home with incredible fear of the dark and high paranoia letting their imagination run wild. This song sent shivers up my spine the first time I heard it.
Great song. Sexy voice&sexy, sleepy atmosphere. I think that the girl is, kinda, scared, but, on the other hand, there's something funny (can't find the right word) in the elements such as the witch, or the thing that moves from under the bed to the hedge. Surreal&dreamlike.
she starts out be telling how she has done everything to feel safe, when alone. the the choir: "What should I do I'm just a little baby". She has realised that she needs a man to protect her. So essential she speaks to the mans need and will to protect a vulnerable being .)
Honestly, I always thought she said "When I'm all alone the dreaming stops, and I just count sand." Which makes more sense... sounds like she's saying that, too.
Now that you mention it, it does sound that way, and it would make sense. Actually either one works, so I say use what you like.
i don't know what it means personally to the artist, but to me its the kinda song you would find on one of those 1940's black and white thriller movies. with the girl running and screaming from the killer. for some reason that's the image i got.
i had a few ideas on how the song could be viewed.
then again i could be completely off track.
i don't know what i believe this song is about but i completely love it.
hmm i think its about a woman who is all alone at night, and she hears all these things outside and theres a full moon out. she tries to stay awake because theres noone there to protect her.
This song is so.. sexy. really.
lol! Don't take this song literally. This girl is just amusing herself. It's cute but also so sexy as weezergirl said.
I agree with wildberry. I could be completely wrong, but it reminds me of and old hitchcock-type film, where the girl is all alone in her apartment, and someone is following her, but she doesn't know who, so she's walking around wide-eyed, and cautious hoping that the light of the moon might protect her.
Wildberry was absolutely right. This is one of my favorite songs from Kill Bill 2. They play it as she's driving in a convertable in an old hollywood black and white scene. Genius.