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"
Danger in the shape of something wild
Stranger dressed in black she's a hungry child
No-one knows who she is or what her name is
I don't know where she came from or what her game is
Hot child in the city
Hot child in the city
Runnin' wild and lookin' pretty
Hot child in the city
So young to be loose and on her own
Young boys they all want to take her home
When she comes downtown the boys all stop and stare
When she comes downtown she walks like she just don't care
Yeah
Hot child in the city
Hot child in the city
Runnin' wild and lookin' pretty, yeah
Hot child in the city
Come on down to my place baby, we'll talk about love
Come on down to my place baby, we'll make love
Hot child in the city
Hot child in the city (she's kinda dangerous)
Hot child in the city (a young child)
Runnin' wild and lookin' pretty (young child, runnin' wild)
Hot child in the city (hot child in the city)
Hot child in the city (hot child in the city)
Hot child in the city (hot child in the city)
Hot child in the city (hot child in the city)
Hot child in the city (oh)
Hot child
Stranger dressed in black she's a hungry child
No-one knows who she is or what her name is
I don't know where she came from or what her game is
Hot child in the city
Hot child in the city
Runnin' wild and lookin' pretty
Hot child in the city
So young to be loose and on her own
Young boys they all want to take her home
When she comes downtown the boys all stop and stare
When she comes downtown she walks like she just don't care
Yeah
Hot child in the city
Hot child in the city
Runnin' wild and lookin' pretty, yeah
Hot child in the city
Come on down to my place baby, we'll talk about love
Come on down to my place baby, we'll make love
Hot child in the city
Hot child in the city (she's kinda dangerous)
Hot child in the city (a young child)
Runnin' wild and lookin' pretty (young child, runnin' wild)
Hot child in the city (hot child in the city)
Hot child in the city (hot child in the city)
Hot child in the city (hot child in the city)
Hot child in the city (hot child in the city)
Hot child in the city (oh)
Hot child
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Actually you're all right. Except you, sir, in saying the other 2 are wrong. Direct quote from Nick Gilder himself: "I've seen a lot of young girls, 15 and 16, walking down Hollywood Boulevard with their pimps. Their home environment drove them to distraction so they ran away, only to be trapped by something even worse. It hurts to see that so I tried writing from the perspective of a lecher — in the guise of an innocent pop song." Both runaways & prositution....poor girls
i think its about a girl all on her own. i imagine like a teenager. alone in the city
I heard that this song is about a young runaway that the singer wants to pick up. It's kind of creepy, but I love the song.
No your both wrong its a known fact that the song is about a young child as a hooker in the city. and all the guys want her because she is so young.
Actually you're all right. Except you, sir, in saying the other 2 are wrong. Direct quote from Nick Gilder himself: "I've seen a lot of young girls, 15 and 16, walking down Hollywood Boulevard with their pimps. Their home environment drove them to distraction so they ran away, only to be trapped by something even worse. It hurts to see that so I tried writing from the perspective of a lecher — in the guise of an innocent pop song."<br /> Both runaways & prositution....poor girls
Good song. And except for high priced call girls, women/girls do not consciously choose to be prostitutes. No emotionally healthy young girl's dream is to grow up to be a prostitute (and who is usually on drugs to dull the pain of the "job"). In the 80's at least, the stats on the number of prostitutes who had been previously sexually molested by dads; uncles; grandfathers; family friends; and mothers' boyfriends was staggering. Prostitution is first an escape. Then it becomes a lifeline due to drug/alcohol addictions and the lack of a good support system on which to return. Without education and job skills (and with an addicition) getting out of the business is nearly impossible. Sorry, but this topic is near and dear to my heart...
I think it is about a guy that is desperate to get laid and luckily, he has met a rather easy lady that will gladly fulfill his needs.