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"
Tonight is the night, it's the night of love
Forever and ever, it's never enough
Tonight is the night, it's the night of love
Together forever, I can't get enough
Come on in, mon, mu-huh
Hold me, hold me, yeah, squeeze me, squeeze me
Yes, come and read the lovin' 'cause you know it's not easy
Hold me, hold me, yes, love a-me, love me
Yes, come and read the music, come receive the pardon
Yes, run, come give me love and come-a, give it to me
By the way, you give me lovin', give me, physically
And anything we do it, do it, naturally
Say come and make me do it and receive your pardon
Tonight is the night, it's the night of love
Forever and ever, it's never enough
Tonight is the night, it's the night of love
Together forever, I can't get enough
Oh, give me the night for love, I just can't get enough
Oh, give me the night for love, too much is not enough
Come down with it, mon, mu-huh, stop by, too
Now that you got my love and together we can make it
Don't anybody try to stop it, people try to break it (uh huh)
Come with the vibes I meant, we flash the peace and harmony (I like that)
Your love is what I want unless you give it to me
Yes, a-da-heh, a-da-heh, come with the vibes, don't stop it
A-da-heh, a-da-heh, yes, my love, I've got to
A-da come with a disco, make me stop me find me go
Say come, baby girl, you're gonna hear how we flow, take me with your love (oh no)
Tonight is the night, it's the night of love
Forever and ever, it's never enough
Tonight is the night, it's the night of love
Together forever I can't get enough
Oh, give me the night for love, I just can't get enough
Oh, give me the night for love, too much is not enough
Aiee, aiee, aiee, aieeh, I just can't get enough
Aiee, aiee, aiee, aieeh, I just can't get enough
Aiee, aiee, aiee, aieeh, I just can't get enough
Aiee, aiee, aiee, aieeh, I just can't get enough
Tonight is the night, it's the night of love
Forever and ever, it's never enough
Tonight is the night, it's the night of love
Together forever, I can't get enough
Forever and ever, it's never enough
Tonight is the night, it's the night of love
Together forever, I can't get enough
Come on in, mon, mu-huh
Hold me, hold me, yeah, squeeze me, squeeze me
Yes, come and read the lovin' 'cause you know it's not easy
Hold me, hold me, yes, love a-me, love me
Yes, come and read the music, come receive the pardon
Yes, run, come give me love and come-a, give it to me
By the way, you give me lovin', give me, physically
And anything we do it, do it, naturally
Say come and make me do it and receive your pardon
Tonight is the night, it's the night of love
Forever and ever, it's never enough
Tonight is the night, it's the night of love
Together forever, I can't get enough
Oh, give me the night for love, I just can't get enough
Oh, give me the night for love, too much is not enough
Come down with it, mon, mu-huh, stop by, too
Now that you got my love and together we can make it
Don't anybody try to stop it, people try to break it (uh huh)
Come with the vibes I meant, we flash the peace and harmony (I like that)
Your love is what I want unless you give it to me
Yes, a-da-heh, a-da-heh, come with the vibes, don't stop it
A-da-heh, a-da-heh, yes, my love, I've got to
A-da come with a disco, make me stop me find me go
Say come, baby girl, you're gonna hear how we flow, take me with your love (oh no)
Tonight is the night, it's the night of love
Forever and ever, it's never enough
Tonight is the night, it's the night of love
Together forever I can't get enough
Oh, give me the night for love, I just can't get enough
Oh, give me the night for love, too much is not enough
Aiee, aiee, aiee, aieeh, I just can't get enough
Aiee, aiee, aiee, aieeh, I just can't get enough
Aiee, aiee, aiee, aieeh, I just can't get enough
Aiee, aiee, aiee, aieeh, I just can't get enough
Tonight is the night, it's the night of love
Forever and ever, it's never enough
Tonight is the night, it's the night of love
Together forever, I can't get enough
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Tonight Is the Night Lyrics as written by Melanie Thornton Michael James Romeo
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