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"
(Kim Carnes)
Honey let's take a photograph
One of just me an you
Cause no one ever makes me smile
The way that you do
We could make it into an 8x10
And hang it up on my wall
And it you wanted to sign it with all my love
Honey I won't mind at all
Straight into the fire
The fantastic fire of love
I can feel the flame getting higher
Oh sweet fantastic fire of love
Now honey let's buy and rocket
And ride it to the moon
Wouldn't take much
We'd just live on love
Life in a silver spoon
We could buy a yacht that don't cost a lot
Sail it to the end of the sea
Wouldn't need a crew
Cause I'd have you
Holding on tight to me
Straight into the fire
The fantastic fire of love
I can feel the flame getting higher
Oh sweet fantastic fire of love
You just really crept up on me
I never saw you coming
Well I tried to yell I tried to scream
But just stop short of running
We can call it lust you can call it luck
Call it anything you like
Its fiery hot and honey I've been caught
And I just want you tonight
Straight into the fire
The fantastic fire of love
I can feel the flame getting higher
Oh sweet fantastic fire of love
Straight into the fire
The fantastic fire of love
I can feel the flame getting higher
Oh sweet fantastic fire of love
Honey let's take a photograph
One of just me an you
Cause no one ever makes me smile
The way that you do
We could make it into an 8x10
And hang it up on my wall
And it you wanted to sign it with all my love
Honey I won't mind at all
Straight into the fire
The fantastic fire of love
I can feel the flame getting higher
Oh sweet fantastic fire of love
Now honey let's buy and rocket
And ride it to the moon
Wouldn't take much
We'd just live on love
Life in a silver spoon
We could buy a yacht that don't cost a lot
Sail it to the end of the sea
Wouldn't need a crew
Cause I'd have you
Holding on tight to me
Straight into the fire
The fantastic fire of love
I can feel the flame getting higher
Oh sweet fantastic fire of love
You just really crept up on me
I never saw you coming
Well I tried to yell I tried to scream
But just stop short of running
We can call it lust you can call it luck
Call it anything you like
Its fiery hot and honey I've been caught
And I just want you tonight
Straight into the fire
The fantastic fire of love
I can feel the flame getting higher
Oh sweet fantastic fire of love
Straight into the fire
The fantastic fire of love
I can feel the flame getting higher
Oh sweet fantastic fire of love
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Fantastic Fire of Love Lyrics as written by Kim Carnes
Lyrics © KIM CARNES D/B/A MOONWINDOW MUSIC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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