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"
The kids round here look just like sticks
They trade old licks with a beat up six
I just smile and catch the groove
Gothic girls all dressed in black
Serious as heart attacks
Takes a bit of getting used to
The old man with the whisky stains
Lost the night, forgot his name
His poor wife will sleep alone again
And it aint hard to understand
Why she’s holding onto her own hand
It’s midnight in Chelsea, midnight in Chelsea
No ones asking me for favours
No ones looking for a saviour
They’re too busy ... saving me
I’ve seen a lone sloane ranger drive
Seems her chauffeur took a dive
And sold her secrets to the Sun
And later in a magazine, I finally figured what it means
To be a saint, not a queen
Two lustful lovers catch a spark, chase their shadows in the dark
Someone’s getting off tonight
A big red bus that’s packed so tight, disappears in a trail of light
Somewhere someone’s dreaming baby it’s alright....
It’s midnight in Chelsea, midnight in Chelsea
No ones asking me for favours
No ones looking for a saviour
They’re too busy saving me
Midnight in Chelsea
No one’s pinned their dreams on me
No one’s asking me to bleed
I’m the man I want to be
When Chelsea girls sing
Sha la la la, sha la la la
Sha la la la, sha la la oh ...
Sha la la la, sha la la la
Sha la la la, sha la la oh ... oh ...
It’s morning when I go to sleep
In the distant dawn a church bell rings
Another day is coming on
A baby’s born, an old man dies
Somewhere young lovers kiss goodbye
I leave my soul and just move on
And wish that I was there to sing this song
It’s midnight in Chelsea, oh, midnight in Chelsea
No ones asking me for favours
No ones looking for a saviour
They’re too busy saving me
It’s midnight in Chelsea
No one’s pinned their dreams on me
No one’s asking me to bleed
I’m the man I want to be
The man I want to be, the man I want to be
Midnight in Chelsea
They trade old licks with a beat up six
I just smile and catch the groove
Gothic girls all dressed in black
Serious as heart attacks
Takes a bit of getting used to
The old man with the whisky stains
Lost the night, forgot his name
His poor wife will sleep alone again
And it aint hard to understand
Why she’s holding onto her own hand
It’s midnight in Chelsea, midnight in Chelsea
No ones asking me for favours
No ones looking for a saviour
They’re too busy ... saving me
I’ve seen a lone sloane ranger drive
Seems her chauffeur took a dive
And sold her secrets to the Sun
And later in a magazine, I finally figured what it means
To be a saint, not a queen
Two lustful lovers catch a spark, chase their shadows in the dark
Someone’s getting off tonight
A big red bus that’s packed so tight, disappears in a trail of light
Somewhere someone’s dreaming baby it’s alright....
It’s midnight in Chelsea, midnight in Chelsea
No ones asking me for favours
No ones looking for a saviour
They’re too busy saving me
Midnight in Chelsea
No one’s pinned their dreams on me
No one’s asking me to bleed
I’m the man I want to be
When Chelsea girls sing
Sha la la la, sha la la la
Sha la la la, sha la la oh ...
Sha la la la, sha la la la
Sha la la la, sha la la oh ... oh ...
It’s morning when I go to sleep
In the distant dawn a church bell rings
Another day is coming on
A baby’s born, an old man dies
Somewhere young lovers kiss goodbye
I leave my soul and just move on
And wish that I was there to sing this song
It’s midnight in Chelsea, oh, midnight in Chelsea
No ones asking me for favours
No ones looking for a saviour
They’re too busy saving me
It’s midnight in Chelsea
No one’s pinned their dreams on me
No one’s asking me to bleed
I’m the man I want to be
The man I want to be, the man I want to be
Midnight in Chelsea
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
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