The Lady in Red

Beautiful song.

Its inspired by a time he saw his wife across a crowded nightclub, without at first realising it was her. As a result he realised that often people never quite appreciate that the most important person in their lives is taken for granted, and how after a while you fail to notice the things that brought you together.

Its about a guy who's crazy in love with a woman whom he sees as being utterly perfect. And hes wondering what he did to have someone so great in his life.

It never ceases to amaze me, the nonsense that people can come up with when they want to badly enough.

Have you ever noticed that the more simple and innocent a song is, the harder people will work to come up with a "nasty" interpretation? It's as though the very presence of innocence is an affront to them, and they become like angry little monkeys flinging their poo at something they don't understand.

Silly little monkeys... ;>

This song could hardly be simpler or more beautiful. It's about seeing a woman you know and realizing as if for the first time how beautiful she is and how much you love her. It doesn't matter if all the men in the room are really asking her to dance, the singer thinks they are, assuming that they can see the same incredible beauty in her. The song is about that overwhelming rush of love or infatuation, so intense that it's physical, that we've all felt at one time or another in our lives.

I don't know if this song was written about the artist's wife or mistress; it doesn't really matter. The emotion it conveys is pure and universal (whether the choices made after it are or not). I don't know what it is about the words, the music, the arrangement, or the vocal delivery in this song, but they work together beautifully, and I've never heard such a perfect expression of that that one emotion.

Poe said that a perfect story or poem was one in which every single part of it works to create a "unity of effect or impression," a single, intense feeling or mood in the reader's or listener's mind. By that standard, "Lady in Red" is a perfect song, and nothing else said about it really matters more than that.

This song sends many messages, or it just could be that a guy is so wrapped up in other things that he forgets how lovely his lady is until one night he sees other men admiring her from afar, it makes him realize how lucky he is, and he falls in love with her all over again ...

This song is so beautiful...What girl wouldn't dream about being the "lady in red"?

The song is about a man who never notices how beautiful the love of his life is until he spends that one magical night with her. The perfect song for my first and only love, to whom i dedicate the lyrics.

Often, after some time together, we tend to take our partner for granted. We no longer see the beauty that made us fall in love in the first place. This song makes me think of that. A man who sees his wife in a new light and realizes that he has forgotten how amazing and beautiful she is. He said he's never seen her look so amazing. That is because he's forgotten and is seeing her again as if for the first time. "I hardly know this beauty by my side" because they gave grown apart and are pretty much strangers at this point. All the things he's noticing are not new. He just wasn't paying attention before now. I think this is a beautiful song and while the true meaning may be something different, that is how I hear it.

Seriously, could there be a much cornier song? I love it anyway :-) Very much a school disco kind of song, the kind that will almost always soften up a woman even if she knows the man who's playing it for them doesn't mean a word! Such an ego trip for a gal - not only does this guy realise he's madly in love with her, but every other man in the room's hitting on her too. It's a lovely fantasy, and always makes me desperate to run out and buy a red dress!

I'm reminded of my Senior Prom back in 1998. My then boyfriend and I were slow dancing and I happened to have on a Red dress that night...how ironic is that...hehehe :-)

Anyways, this is one of my favorite slow songs to dance to. The other being Eric Clapton's song "Wonderful."

It's so true, how many of people don't realize the beauty and amazement they have in their S.O. until someone else wants them. When someone is so desireable to others, they often become much more desireable to the person whom they are with. Smooth way to portray it in a song.