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"
Who's so fly up in the sky
Faster than any boy could ever describe?
Who has got a love so deep
With everything alive?
I said
Jet Boy's fly
Jet Boy's gone
Jet Boy stole my baby
Flyin' around New York City so high
Like he was my baby
This's the kinda place where no one cares
What you're living for
And Jet Boy's so preoccupied
He don't care 'bout before
And that's why
Jet Boy's fly
Jet Boy's gone
Jet Boy stole my baby
Flyin' around New York City so high
Like he was my baby
My baby
Jet Boy's fly, you know
Jet Boy's gone
Jet Boy stole my baby
Flyin' around New York City so high
Like he was my baby
We was all endangered charms
Swear we're havin fun
And Jet Boy goes after all we've done
That's why he's the one
That's why
Jet Boy's fly
Jet Boy's gone
Jet Boy stole my baby
Flyin' around New York City so high
Like he was my baby
My pretty baby
My pretty, pretty baby
My pretty baby
When I first came around this dump
I knew I couldn't stay
'Cause up above the world are Jet Boy
That's how I gotta play
Don't ya know why
Jet Boy's fly
Jet Boy's gone
Jet Boy stole my baby
Flyin' around New York City so high
Like he was my baby, like he was my baby
Like he was my baby, like he was my baby
Like he was my baby
Jet Boy's fly
And ya know he's gone
I said he been gone
Gone, gone, gone
And he been flying
He been flying
He's been flying
He's been flying
Baby, up all night
Baby, New York City
Baby, so, so high
Baby, so, so high
Don't you know that
Like he was my baby
Like he was my baby
Like he was my baby
Like he was my-my-my-my baby
My-my-my-my baby (like he was my baby)
My-my-my-my (Like he was my baby)
My baby, my baby (Like he was my baby)
M-m-m-m-m-my baby
My baby
Faster than any boy could ever describe?
Who has got a love so deep
With everything alive?
I said
Jet Boy's fly
Jet Boy's gone
Jet Boy stole my baby
Flyin' around New York City so high
Like he was my baby
This's the kinda place where no one cares
What you're living for
And Jet Boy's so preoccupied
He don't care 'bout before
And that's why
Jet Boy's fly
Jet Boy's gone
Jet Boy stole my baby
Flyin' around New York City so high
Like he was my baby
My baby
Jet Boy's fly, you know
Jet Boy's gone
Jet Boy stole my baby
Flyin' around New York City so high
Like he was my baby
We was all endangered charms
Swear we're havin fun
And Jet Boy goes after all we've done
That's why he's the one
That's why
Jet Boy's fly
Jet Boy's gone
Jet Boy stole my baby
Flyin' around New York City so high
Like he was my baby
My pretty baby
My pretty, pretty baby
My pretty baby
When I first came around this dump
I knew I couldn't stay
'Cause up above the world are Jet Boy
That's how I gotta play
Don't ya know why
Jet Boy's fly
Jet Boy's gone
Jet Boy stole my baby
Flyin' around New York City so high
Like he was my baby, like he was my baby
Like he was my baby, like he was my baby
Like he was my baby
Jet Boy's fly
And ya know he's gone
I said he been gone
Gone, gone, gone
And he been flying
He been flying
He's been flying
He's been flying
Baby, up all night
Baby, New York City
Baby, so, so high
Baby, so, so high
Don't you know that
Like he was my baby
Like he was my baby
Like he was my baby
Like he was my-my-my-my baby
My-my-my-my baby (like he was my baby)
My-my-my-my (Like he was my baby)
My baby, my baby (Like he was my baby)
M-m-m-m-m-my baby
My baby
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Jet Boy Lyrics as written by Johnny Thunders David Johansen
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i swear its 'like he wants my baby'..
@jackiecurtis nope, it's actually, "like he WAS my baby', they were into dudes.<br /> Ever seen a video of the New York Dolls? I mean, c'mon man, the dudes got on stage cross-dressed ;)<br />
@jackiecurtis thanks! Yeah must be "wants" of course. Makes more sense and sounds right as well
i think jet boy is someone living in the fast lane. trying not to have a dull moment in hteir life. and when they sense a dull moment comming they leave at dull moment and continue living as fast as they can
"We was all endangered charms Swear we're havin fun And Jet Boy knows all we done That's why he's the one
(That's why) Jet Boys fly Jet Boys gone "
you can see there thats where i got htat from. just abotu someone living life to the fullest taking alotta drugs probaly so he always feels high.
It's about getting high? I'm not sure...
i'm almost 100% sure i'm wrong, but the way i interpret this song is there's a guy, and he's got a girl, and he's paranoid about other guys (jet boys) flying around and threatening to steal his girl.
reminds me of jet boy ket girl by the damned
no clue what the term jet boy means
Jet Boy seems to be a term for young boys interested in or discovering their homosexual feelings. Thus the lyrics are quite self explaining.
I think the comments are generally right. A dude that is just an overall happy dude that just running around the city having fun. Based on the height references, he's probably indulging in some drugs.
He stole the narrator's girl probably she was interested in his drugs (Flying around New York City so high, Like he was my baby").
The narrator is concerned with his lost girlfriend, but it doesn't sound like he necessarily hates Jet Boy for it. Idk if he is as interested in drugs as Jet Boy and his girlfriend though. I get the feeling he is relatively clean. The "endangered charms" stanza seems to be him saying that they are trying to have fun without drugs. Also "when I first game around this dump, I knew I couldn't stay" might be him saying he can't stand the drug culture of the Jet Boys despite the good time they are having.
@hornytheclown Not exactly a girl, the New York Dolls were more into guys back then.<br /> "Endangered charms" are most probably some drugs too.<br /> <br /> New York Dolls were notable junkies, of the sort that really like it They were known for stopping a gig just because they got too high and hide behind the speakers to throw up.<br /> <br /> They definitely could stand the drug culture, they actually enjoyed it with gusto.<br />
The song is about a dude called Jet Boy (I think it's Johnny Thunders) and about getting high as f*ck.
I actually came here to see if somebody knew wtf "endangered charms" means. Some drug I assume.
@enric10206 I always thought it was "We were all in danger zones"
@enric10206 when your young and on drugs anything possible, or you think so, you are the 'charms' without realizing drugs will get you, you become endangered....its the optimism of youth when taking drugs...precious 'charms',