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"
Children, I want to warn ya, 'cause I've been to California
Where Mickey Mouse is such a demon, where Mickey Mouse is as big as a house
Life is wasted on illusions, Tom and Jerry's my solution
Evil gangs will cut the demons, but I belong some real boy, look around
And I cry all night, do you want to hold me, hold me tight
Do you want to hold me, oh yeah, do you want to hold me, hold me there
Children, you got to hand me, you just got to understand me
Love and death ain't no physical thing
'cause making next ain't no one of 'em
And I cry all night, do you want to hold me, hold me tight
Do you want to hold me, oh yeah, do you want to hold me, hold me there
Do you want to
And I cry all night, do you want to hold me, hold me tight
Do you want to hold me, oh yeah, do you want to hold me, hold me there
And I cry all night, there ain't no more confusion in the night
There's someone there to tell me what is right
Do you want to hold me, hold me tight
And I cry all night, there's only one solution to this life
There's someone there to tell me what it's like
Do you want to hold me, oh yeah, do you want to hold me, oh yeah
Do you want to hold me, hold me there
Do you want to hold me, oh yeah
Do you want to hold me, oh yeah
Where Mickey Mouse is such a demon, where Mickey Mouse is as big as a house
Life is wasted on illusions, Tom and Jerry's my solution
Evil gangs will cut the demons, but I belong some real boy, look around
And I cry all night, do you want to hold me, hold me tight
Do you want to hold me, oh yeah, do you want to hold me, hold me there
Children, you got to hand me, you just got to understand me
Love and death ain't no physical thing
'cause making next ain't no one of 'em
And I cry all night, do you want to hold me, hold me tight
Do you want to hold me, oh yeah, do you want to hold me, hold me there
Do you want to
And I cry all night, do you want to hold me, hold me tight
Do you want to hold me, oh yeah, do you want to hold me, hold me there
And I cry all night, there ain't no more confusion in the night
There's someone there to tell me what is right
Do you want to hold me, hold me tight
And I cry all night, there's only one solution to this life
There's someone there to tell me what it's like
Do you want to hold me, oh yeah, do you want to hold me, oh yeah
Do you want to hold me, hold me there
Do you want to hold me, oh yeah
Do you want to hold me, oh yeah
Lyrics submitted by SloppyFart, edited by misterzan81
Do You Wanna Hold Me Lyrics as written by Matthew James Ashman Malcolm Robert Andrew Mclaren
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Songtrust Ave, Peermusic Publishing
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I believe that " but I belong some real boy, look around" should say "Pinocchio's a real boy! Liberate him!" There's a couple of other lines that appear wrong as well. I'm just saying. This is one of my favorite songs.
Too bad they were seen as a gimmick by most. They really could play! This song is a good example of that though not the best.
She could really sing
Lots of people credit this band as being great. Fact is, the production on their songs was fantastic! Listen to the sound of the lead voice - wonderfully produced to make excellent pop music! The guitar sound, the drums, all the music is tailored in production. Terrific work. As I understand it, the producer was kind of a jerk. Still, he helped make this band a great wonder.
@MaximumDepth <br /> <br /> Who was the producer? Malcolm McClaren or someone else?
Unable to submit edits, but I am pretty sure there are just a few lines that aren’t right:
Life is wasted on illusions, Tom and Jerry's NO SOLUTION, EVIL GAMES FOR CARTOON DEMONS, PINOCCHIO’S a real boy, look around
Children, you got to HEAR me, you just got to understand me, Love and death ain't no physical thing 'cause MICKEY MOUSE, HE DON’T WANNA KNOW
It seems strange to me that with a band as incredible as Bow Wow Wow, people are posting comments about their lesser known tunes. Nothing against songs like this one - but powerful agit-prop jungle-rock like W.O.R.K. is not even listed here. And no one has even posted on "Go Wild in the Country".
So I will take it upon myself to post a YouTube here:
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"Demolition of the work ethic - takes us to the age of the Primitive" Oh dear. I think she was right on that one... "WORK - O - R - Kuh N-O..." (this song is so out there - total madness. COMPLETELY wrong and amoral in its philosophy - yet chillingly prophetic of welfare-state urban societal breakdown.
It was also spoken word/rap before these things were mainstream. And sung by such a sexy mysterious Burmese girl. Always makes me think of Kipling's "On the Road to Mandalay". BWW will always have a place in my heart. ☺ ♥ ☻
@NomadMonad - The primitive worked for his food, not for petty greed. Meanwhile, in the modern era, we cannot separate our greed from our need. We all compete with each other for things when time is the most important resource of all yet it is wasted on useless work. Folks who decry the welfare state 99.9999% of the time fail to acknowledge that modern society does not need most of the current work that is done if resources are allocated efficiently. Think about all the man hours done working on marketing. Then consider marketing campaign analysis. I have done this for pharma for 15 years, helping society Inefficiently and harmfully reallocate prescriptions for the purpose of imbalancing assets for the benefit of the rich. Do you realize nearly all pharma work is for marketing, and the remainder of much research is for either "me too" drugs (copy cats basically) or excuses for extending drug patents that are actually no better for the patient. Then look at food production. Totally inefficient. But people like you demand that people have the right to work 80 hours a week to get two mansions and in the process force other people to work two jobs full time just to survive. What a fool's system! So many people are put OUT of work by the "right" of relatively people to monopolize work and/or opportunities for profit. The solution is regulation, break-up of monopolies, penalties against countries (like China) that violate decent and fair practices, rights to cheaper (SINGLE PAYER/EFFICIENT) health care (unattached to labor status), and limits to asset accumulation rates. Jeff Bezos has ZERO business almost literally destroying the national economy by reducing the velocity of money in the economy (which he does by freezing money when it becomes his instead of spending it).
@NomadMonad <br /> <br /> Very interesting & strange that you relate this to big Pharma, since TODAY my son had reps from the Pharma industry promoting Pharmacology degrees to his HS biology class.<br /> <br /> I don't disagree with you. I was simply relating the McLarenesque lyrics of W.O.R.K.to actual scenes I have witnessed as a social-worker in an American city where there is very high welfare dependency.<br /> <br /> [But people like you demand that . . .] <br /> <br /> Not sure what you mean. Who are the "people like me"? <br /> Other BowWowWow fans? ☺<br /> <br /> Anyway thanks for responding with thought-provoking questions.