The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
Sweetness, it's just a matter of taste.
I wish we were not misplaced.
You only quote these lines, but I'll be fine.
I'll only recite mine until I'm gone without a trace.
It's just a matter of time
Strip for me as I have stripped for you.
We've got nothing to hide and we've got less to lose.
Strip for me as I have stripped for you.
I've got nothing to hide and less to lose.
Sweetness, could they have just a taste of this, this beautiful disgrace?
They find you criminal, delectable.
They find me intangible, invisible;
Gone without a trace.
It's just a matter of time.
Strip for me as I have stripped for you.
We've got nothing to hide and we've got less to lose.
Strip for me as I have stripped for you.
I've got nothing to hide and less to lose.
It's a lot to take but they won't find us.
It's a lot to take I know, I know.
It's a lot to fake but pay no mind 'cause this is how we're made, you know;
And so:
Strip for me as I have stripped for you.
We've got nothing to hide and We've got less to lose.
We've got nothing.
Strip for me as I have stripped for you.
We've got nothing to hide and we've got less to lose.
Strip for me as I have stripped for you.
I've got nothing to hide and less to--
I wish we were not misplaced.
You only quote these lines, but I'll be fine.
I'll only recite mine until I'm gone without a trace.
It's just a matter of time
Strip for me as I have stripped for you.
We've got nothing to hide and we've got less to lose.
Strip for me as I have stripped for you.
I've got nothing to hide and less to lose.
Sweetness, could they have just a taste of this, this beautiful disgrace?
They find you criminal, delectable.
They find me intangible, invisible;
Gone without a trace.
It's just a matter of time.
Strip for me as I have stripped for you.
We've got nothing to hide and we've got less to lose.
Strip for me as I have stripped for you.
I've got nothing to hide and less to lose.
It's a lot to take but they won't find us.
It's a lot to take I know, I know.
It's a lot to fake but pay no mind 'cause this is how we're made, you know;
And so:
Strip for me as I have stripped for you.
We've got nothing to hide and We've got less to lose.
We've got nothing.
Strip for me as I have stripped for you.
We've got nothing to hide and we've got less to lose.
Strip for me as I have stripped for you.
I've got nothing to hide and less to--
Lyrics submitted by InHerHand
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"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.
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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I PERSONALLY believe this song is about davey having sex with jade. [Just my own thoughts] Plus it's way better than all these metaphors heh. =]]
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No way, it's about Davey having sex with Nick 13. ;)
i think it mean stripping ur clothes off before sex.
dont u???
One of my favorite Blaqk Audio songs. Maybe it doesn't mean stripping in the literal meaning, maybe stripping as in showing the real person he is and not faking who he is.
This imo seems to be about two people who want to be together but everyone wants to tear them apart because they think they shouldn't be together. So they run away together. The stripping lyrics imo would mean more of showing the person you love everything about you telling them everything not keeping anyhting from them and then they do the same for you being completely vunerable to each other. Or It could just be about two people who are in love and want to have sex but sex is seen as unclean thing where they are so they go somewhere away from everyones eyes so they show there love for each other alone.
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yeah, I think SkyExplosion was right on the first interpetation on the song. I think the whole 'Strip for me as I have stripped for you' is suppoused to be taken metephorically. Really like this band
I really wonder what the song title is suppoused to mean..
A small nod to Morrissey ("sweetness" from 'bigmouth strikes again') and 2 nods to Depeche Mode ("question of time", even the melody is similar on that account and "stripped").
As for meaning, I think it is definitely not literal. Though I find the line "they find you criminal, delectable" interesting. Lolita-esque, perhaps.
I also believe that Davey doesn't literally mean to strip. Being in a relationship of any kind requires you to become vulnerable to be torn apart by the other person.
His feeling of being invisible, see through, etc is a reoccuring theme throughout the album and it make me wonder if through out the album, not just this song, hes talking about he feels like he's nothing because he has been torn apart by so many people he thought he could trust and feels like there's nothing left offer of his heart.
That may not be totally true, but that's just what it seems like this album is about. Hurt...pain...heartbreak... and feeling invisible and quite possibly unlovable.
songmeanings.net/lyric.php points up For shame Davey! You can't tell me he's never heard of them, so yeah...pretend there was a point to that. As far as meaning....I think it's just an unreciprocal sort of love. The speaker having to ask the other person to "Strip for me as I've stripped for you" speaks volumes when coupled with the "we've got nothing" bit, but I may be ignoring the bigger picture. People say Davey's lyrics are so deep, but I can't help but figure it's just about sex or if you must have a deep meaning, unrequited love.
Sounds like meaningless sex to me. "You only quote these lines, but I'll be fine. I'll only recite mine, until I'm gone without a trace. It's just a matter of time." So they just follow a sort of set exchange without their own feelings, really, and he knows he'll end up gone, and doesn't care. And followed by "strip for me as I strip/have stripped (it changes depending on the part of the chorus) for you", It seems to follow a certain trend...
Oh, and I , too, was reminded of Stripped by DM. I love that song, and so another excellent song that reminds me of that one is very welcome.