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"
Try not to get worried
Try not to turn on to problems that upset you
Oh, don't you know everything's alright?
Yes, everything's fine
And we want you to sleep well tonight
Let the world turn without you tonight
If we try, we'll get by
So forget all about us tonight
(everything's alright, yes)
(everything's alright, yes)
Sleep and I shall soothe you
Calm you and anoint you
Myrrh for your hot forehead
And you'll feel everything's alright
Yes, everything's fine
And it's cool and the ointment's sweet
For the fire in your head and feet
Close your eyes
Close your eyes and relax
Think of nothing tonight
(everything's alright, yes)
(everything's alright, yes)
Ay woman, you find ointment
Brand new and expensive
Should have been saved for the poor
Why has it been wasted?
We could have raised maybe
Three hundred silver pieces or more
People who are hungry
People who are starving
They matter more than your feet and head
Try not to get worried
Try not to turn onto problems that upset you
Oh, don't you know everything's alright?
Yes, everything's fine
And we want you to sleep well tonight
Let the world turn without you tonight
If we try we'll get by
So forget all about us tonight
(everything's alright, yes)
(everything's alright, yes)
Surely you're not saying
We have the resources
to save the poor from their luck
There will be poor always
Pathetically struggling
Look at the good things we've got
Think while you still have me
Move while you still see me
You'll be lost
You'll be so, so sorry when I'm gone
Sleep and I shall soothe you
Calm you and anoint you
Myrrh for your hot forehead
Then you'll feel everything's alright
Yes, everything's fine
And it's cool and the ointment's sweet
For the fire in your head and feet
Close your eyes
Close your eyes, and relax
Think of nothing tonight
(Close your eyes)
(Close your eyes, and relax)
(Think of nothing tonight)
Close your eyes
Close your eyes, and relax
(Close your eyes)
(Close your eyes, and relax)
(Think of nothing tonight)
Close your eyes
Close your eyes, and relax
Think of nothing tonight
(Close your eyes)
(Close your eyes, and relax)
(Think of nothing tonight)
Close your eyes
Close your eyes, and relax
Think of nothing tonight
Try not to turn on to problems that upset you
Oh, don't you know everything's alright?
Yes, everything's fine
And we want you to sleep well tonight
Let the world turn without you tonight
If we try, we'll get by
So forget all about us tonight
(everything's alright, yes)
(everything's alright, yes)
Sleep and I shall soothe you
Calm you and anoint you
Myrrh for your hot forehead
And you'll feel everything's alright
Yes, everything's fine
And it's cool and the ointment's sweet
For the fire in your head and feet
Close your eyes
Close your eyes and relax
Think of nothing tonight
(everything's alright, yes)
(everything's alright, yes)
Ay woman, you find ointment
Brand new and expensive
Should have been saved for the poor
Why has it been wasted?
We could have raised maybe
Three hundred silver pieces or more
People who are hungry
People who are starving
They matter more than your feet and head
Try not to get worried
Try not to turn onto problems that upset you
Oh, don't you know everything's alright?
Yes, everything's fine
And we want you to sleep well tonight
Let the world turn without you tonight
If we try we'll get by
So forget all about us tonight
(everything's alright, yes)
(everything's alright, yes)
Surely you're not saying
We have the resources
to save the poor from their luck
There will be poor always
Pathetically struggling
Look at the good things we've got
Think while you still have me
Move while you still see me
You'll be lost
You'll be so, so sorry when I'm gone
Sleep and I shall soothe you
Calm you and anoint you
Myrrh for your hot forehead
Then you'll feel everything's alright
Yes, everything's fine
And it's cool and the ointment's sweet
For the fire in your head and feet
Close your eyes
Close your eyes, and relax
Think of nothing tonight
(Close your eyes)
(Close your eyes, and relax)
(Think of nothing tonight)
Close your eyes
Close your eyes, and relax
(Close your eyes)
(Close your eyes, and relax)
(Think of nothing tonight)
Close your eyes
Close your eyes, and relax
Think of nothing tonight
(Close your eyes)
(Close your eyes, and relax)
(Think of nothing tonight)
Close your eyes
Close your eyes, and relax
Think of nothing tonight
Lyrics submitted by SnuffieSniffer
Everything's Alright Lyrics as written by Tim Rice Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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my parents used to sing this song to me to help me go to sleep. i love the 70's version and Jesus's voice (Ted Neely)- he has an amazing voice, just the intensity. amazing. (but my parents didn't sing that part. lol- not intensity before bed). really- listen to this song though!
my parents used to sing this song to me to help me go to sleep. i love the 70's version and Jesus's voice (Ted Neely)- he has an amazing voice, just the intensity. amazing. (but my parents didn't sing that part. lol- not intensity before bed). really- listen to this song though!
the women that plays mary magdalene has such a beautiful voice.. I could listen to this song over and over.
I always sing it in my head and pretend i'm singing it to my friend who is always worried about everything.
@toxik_lemon Yvonne Elliman !<br /> <br /> She's on Saturday Night Fever too: "If I Can't Have You"<br /> <br />
Her voice is so beautiful in this song and the lyrics make me cry - almost.
It's an interesting contrast to think about in Jesus' life. Trying to relax yet at the same time (as Judas points out) having a need to help out the needy as much as possible.
beautiful
i really like how the full orchestra comes in on mary's last verse. listen carefully
my parents used to sing this song to me to help me go to sleep. i love the 70's version and Jesus's voice (Ted Neely)- he has an amazing voice, just the intensity. amazing. (but my parents didn't sing that part. lol- not intensity before bed). really- listen to this song though!
^^ soooo..did your parents used to sing this song to you when you were a kid?
pwned lol!111
candycanechild, what are you trying to say?