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"
Come over here
All you've got is this moment
Twenty-first century's yesterday
You can care all you want
Everybody does, yeah, that's okay
So slide over here and give me a moment
Your moves are so raw, I've got to let you know
I've got to let you know
You're one of my kind
I need you tonight
'Cause I'm not sleepin'
There's somethin' about you, girl
That makes me sweat
How do you feel? I'm lonely
What do you think? Can't think at all
What you gonna do? Gonna live my life
So slide over here and give me a moment
Your moves are so raw, I've got to let you know
I've got to let you know
You're one of my kind
I need you tonight
'Cause I'm not sleepin'
There's somethin' about you, girl
That makes me sweat
So how do you feel? I'm lonely
What do you think? Can't think at all
What you gonna do? Gonna live my life
How do you feel? I'm lonely
What do you think? Can't think at all
What you gonna do? Gonna live my life
So slide over here and give me a moment
Your moves are so raw, I've got to let you know
I've got to let you know
So slide over here and give me a moment
I've got to let you know, I've got to let you know
You're one of my kind
All you've got is this moment
Twenty-first century's yesterday
You can care all you want
Everybody does, yeah, that's okay
So slide over here and give me a moment
Your moves are so raw, I've got to let you know
I've got to let you know
You're one of my kind
I need you tonight
'Cause I'm not sleepin'
There's somethin' about you, girl
That makes me sweat
How do you feel? I'm lonely
What do you think? Can't think at all
What you gonna do? Gonna live my life
So slide over here and give me a moment
Your moves are so raw, I've got to let you know
I've got to let you know
You're one of my kind
I need you tonight
'Cause I'm not sleepin'
There's somethin' about you, girl
That makes me sweat
So how do you feel? I'm lonely
What do you think? Can't think at all
What you gonna do? Gonna live my life
How do you feel? I'm lonely
What do you think? Can't think at all
What you gonna do? Gonna live my life
So slide over here and give me a moment
Your moves are so raw, I've got to let you know
I've got to let you know
So slide over here and give me a moment
I've got to let you know, I've got to let you know
You're one of my kind
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The words are just what lust and crush feel like and the music is so utterly sexy you just cant help but lust for it.
Most sexy songs just kinda gross me out and turn me away, but this one just has this charisma to it, I can get into it, I feel it! I love it!
@Passionate Indeed here for this comment. It’s a sex song no doubt. I find the line “ You're one of my kind” meaning there are many other girls who are his kind. She’s one of them. This is what tipped me off that she’s just being used for sex. It’s nothing deep, he’s not looking for a relationship. Just him saying “need you tonight” - for just tonight.
INXS FOREVER!!!!!
I love INXS and the song is like he says her moves are "raw". It's so gritty and wonderful! I love it!
Yeah, this song just exudes sex.
"I need you tonight 'Cause I'm not sleeping There's something about you girl That makes me sweat"
I think of this part as being about cocaine. 1> You think you need it 2> You won't be sleeping 3> A slang word for cocaine is "girl" 4> You will sweat
Ya don't think it could just be what he is actually saying? "I need you tonight,cos I'm not sleeping.There's something about you girl,that makes me sweat"?-No? Ok.
emuInAmuumuu: It says "MY interpretation." No? Ok.
That makes no sense. Who ever called coke "girl?" You don't sweat doing coke. It lasts for just 20 minutes. Have you seen Michael Hutchence? IIt's not a drug song. It's a sex song.
@RockAngels You've never heard of cocaine being called girl? You've not been around, have you? LOL<br /> Girl= coke/blow, Boy= heroin/horse<br /> And you say that you don't sweat when doing cocaine? Ha! OK, you have ZERO credibility here. It lasts 20 minutes? That's why you keep doing more and more and more. It lasts until you run out of money.
This song is the best for partying! it's so much fun and it has a great beat It's the only INXS song that I really love.
I LOVE this song! this song to me is just perfect his voice is so perfect the lyrics and everything is just a turn on and it makes me wanna dirty dance but funky style...if that makes sense!?! i need you tonight coz im not sleepingt heres something about u girl that makes me sweat omg its kinda booty-callish but my gosh any bootycall taking place to this song is damn good!... feel free to ignore me lol
What a sexy song..
..You can say that again! Definitely one of the top make out songs of the 80s