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"
At two am, she jumped on me,
said for five months she has loved ...
"Okay, it's your turn. Say the same."
I'd like to like you like you like me
but I can't please understand.
I'm not a jerk -- but I am.
She wept and wiped her face with one hand
said that we can't be friends.
"How could you not want me. I'm hot.
Just tell me. It's okay."
Stop trying. I don't want you.
You don't want to stop trying.
You want me, well --
I want to dance.
Stop trying. You don't want to.
I don't want you. Stop trying.
You want me, but --
I want to dance.
Days do pass, still wants to talk,
says for five months, she has loved ...
Okay, you know I'm not the same.
I'd like to like you like you like me,
but I can't please understand.
I'm not a jerk -- but I am.
She weeps and wipes her face with more tears,
this time, with her other hand.
"How could you kiss me there then just go,
leave me a sample in a song."
Stop trying--trying--trying.
I don't want you. You don't want to stop trying.
You want me, well --
I want to dance.
Stop trying. You don't want to.
I don't want you. Stop trying.
You want me, but --
I want to dance.
Stop crying, I don't want you.
You don't want to stop crying.
You want me, well --
I want to dance.
Stop crying, I don't want you.
You don't want to stop crying.
You want me, but --
I want to dance.
So just dance.
Put on your boots and walk out the door.
Forget the face that you watched before.
(Don't love me.)
It's not worth the time or worth the tears.
Shut your mouth. Be a dear.
(I don't want you.)
Put on your boots and walk out the door.
Forget the face that you watched before.
(Don't love me.)
It's not worth the time or worth the tears.
Shut your mouth. Be a dear.
(I don't want you.)
Arms up.
Just dance.
Arms out.
Just dance.
Arms up. Just dance.
Arms out. Just dance.
Arms up. Just dance.
Arms out. Just dance.
Just dance.
I won't say that I love you.
I can't say that I love you.
At two am, she jumped on me,
said for five months she has loved ...
"Okay, it's your turn. Say the same."
I'd like to like you like you like me,
but I can't please understand.
I'm not a jerk -- but I am.
So just stop.
said for five months she has loved ...
"Okay, it's your turn. Say the same."
I'd like to like you like you like me
but I can't please understand.
I'm not a jerk -- but I am.
She wept and wiped her face with one hand
said that we can't be friends.
"How could you not want me. I'm hot.
Just tell me. It's okay."
Stop trying. I don't want you.
You don't want to stop trying.
You want me, well --
I want to dance.
Stop trying. You don't want to.
I don't want you. Stop trying.
You want me, but --
I want to dance.
Days do pass, still wants to talk,
says for five months, she has loved ...
Okay, you know I'm not the same.
I'd like to like you like you like me,
but I can't please understand.
I'm not a jerk -- but I am.
She weeps and wipes her face with more tears,
this time, with her other hand.
"How could you kiss me there then just go,
leave me a sample in a song."
Stop trying--trying--trying.
I don't want you. You don't want to stop trying.
You want me, well --
I want to dance.
Stop trying. You don't want to.
I don't want you. Stop trying.
You want me, but --
I want to dance.
Stop crying, I don't want you.
You don't want to stop crying.
You want me, well --
I want to dance.
Stop crying, I don't want you.
You don't want to stop crying.
You want me, but --
I want to dance.
So just dance.
Put on your boots and walk out the door.
Forget the face that you watched before.
(Don't love me.)
It's not worth the time or worth the tears.
Shut your mouth. Be a dear.
(I don't want you.)
Put on your boots and walk out the door.
Forget the face that you watched before.
(Don't love me.)
It's not worth the time or worth the tears.
Shut your mouth. Be a dear.
(I don't want you.)
Arms up.
Just dance.
Arms out.
Just dance.
Arms up. Just dance.
Arms out. Just dance.
Arms up. Just dance.
Arms out. Just dance.
Just dance.
I won't say that I love you.
I can't say that I love you.
At two am, she jumped on me,
said for five months she has loved ...
"Okay, it's your turn. Say the same."
I'd like to like you like you like me,
but I can't please understand.
I'm not a jerk -- but I am.
So just stop.
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first comment for one of my favorite songs.
i think it's about a relationship where one loves the other more than the other loves the one. or it could be about a homosexual in a heterosexual relationship. i'm not sure, it's a little vague.
it's a great song, nonetheless. very smart. i hate dance music but i'm totally addicted to dangerous muse.
The song is about a homosexual man turning down the sexual advances of his heterosexual girl friend. He admits that he wants to have sexual feelings for her, but he can't becuase he is only attracted to men. She also expresses anger towards him when he tells her, claiming that he led her on. He obviously feels bad about the situation, imploring her at the end to forget about her love for him and to just dance. The part where he tells her to dance could also be an expression of the kind of relationship he wants to have with her. He wants to be able to take her out and have fun without the pressure of taking her home at the end of the night or loving her.
Wow this song is amazing.!!! Ok well first off nowhere in the song does it state gender I want evidence of homosexuallness.
I think differently. THis song is about a girl who wants to be serious with her guy and he just doesnt feel the same. Just like the title of the song she was rejected. Dangerous Muse is amazing. they write genuinly from the heart and their rythms can take you away...I love how personal he gets in his song and how blatantly obvious what he's singing about is. ...he wants her to forget about him and stop persuing. so obvious.
I know this song is about a homosexual rejecting a heterosexual because mike furey wrote it about a girl friend of his who had feelings for him...but he didn't feel the same way...also, watch the video...the whole thing is about heterosexuals hitting on homosexuals who then get rejected by heterosexuals
This song is totally about a homosexual that has a girlfriend (maybe to experiment or to see how it'd be like), and then he can't stand the relation no more. I think the lines "I'd like to like you like you like me" and "How could you not want me I'm hot" give quite a clue. Besides it seems to me that the part 'I'm not a jerk, but I am...' leaves you with the impression that he's trying to say "I'm not a jerk but I'm gay"
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I agree on the homosexual relationship part. I also think that by dance, he refers it as a way of being a swinger and getting out there to date other people and have fun. just an opinion =) oh and LOVE the song.