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"
Keep it quiet. (Go slow.)
Circulate. Need to know.
Stamp the date upon your file
masquerade, but well worth while.
Wrapped in the warmth of you
wrapped up in your smile.
Wrapped in the folds of your attention.
Wear an air (keep mum)
of casual indifference.
Careful how you go
about your usual business.
Wrapped in daydreams of you
wrapped up by your eyes.
Wrapped in the folds of your attention.
Under wraps! I've got you under wraps.
Tell you when (not yet)
soon the great unveiling.
Bless my boots! Upon my soul!
Secrecy, it is my failing.
Wrapped in your Summer night
wrapped in your Autumn leaves.
Wrapped in the Winter of your sleeping.
Circulate. Need to know.
Stamp the date upon your file
masquerade, but well worth while.
Wrapped in the warmth of you
wrapped up in your smile.
Wrapped in the folds of your attention.
Wear an air (keep mum)
of casual indifference.
Careful how you go
about your usual business.
Wrapped in daydreams of you
wrapped up by your eyes.
Wrapped in the folds of your attention.
Under wraps! I've got you under wraps.
Tell you when (not yet)
soon the great unveiling.
Bless my boots! Upon my soul!
Secrecy, it is my failing.
Wrapped in your Summer night
wrapped in your Autumn leaves.
Wrapped in the Winter of your sleeping.
Lyrics submitted by inpraiseoffolly
Under Wraps Lyrics as written by Ian Anderson
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The album, Under Wraps, came out at a time when many bands were experimenting with the new cutting-edge technology of electronic music, synthesizers, drum machines, production effects, etc.
Under Wraps, the song, comes across to me as a double entendre about love affairs and spy games, where trust is of utmost importance, yet is not always available as people and countries move to gain what they desire.
The song is a prelude to the album's themes of romance, allegiance, loyalty, espionage, terrorism, political subversion and spy games. While the Cold War (USSR vs. the World) was the contemporary setting for these songs, the world has never had a shortage of such maneuvers and activities.
The song is about a spy who falls for the beautiful enemy spy and spills all his country's secrets.
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