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"
I feel so unsure
As I take your hand and lead you to the dance floor
As the music dies, something in your eyes
Calls to mind a silver screen
And all its sad good-byes
I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool
I should've known better than to cheat a friend
And waste the chance that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you, oh
Time can never mend
The careless whispers of a good friend
To the heart and mind
Ignorance is kind
There's no comfort in the truth
Pain is all you'll find
I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool
I should've known better than to cheat a friend (should've known better, yeah)
And waste the chance that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you, oh
Never without your love
Tonight the music seems so loud
I wish that we could lose this crowd
Maybe it's better this way
We'd hurt each other with the things we'd want to say
We could have been so good together
We could have lived this dance forever
But now, who's gonna dance with me?
Please stay
And I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool
I should've known better than to cheat a friend
And waste the chance that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you, oh
(Now that you're gone) now that you're gone
(Now that you're gone) was what I did so wrong, so wrong
That you had to leave me alone?
As I take your hand and lead you to the dance floor
As the music dies, something in your eyes
Calls to mind a silver screen
And all its sad good-byes
I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool
I should've known better than to cheat a friend
And waste the chance that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you, oh
Time can never mend
The careless whispers of a good friend
To the heart and mind
Ignorance is kind
There's no comfort in the truth
Pain is all you'll find
I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool
I should've known better than to cheat a friend (should've known better, yeah)
And waste the chance that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you, oh
Never without your love
Tonight the music seems so loud
I wish that we could lose this crowd
Maybe it's better this way
We'd hurt each other with the things we'd want to say
We could have been so good together
We could have lived this dance forever
But now, who's gonna dance with me?
Please stay
And I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool
I should've known better than to cheat a friend
And waste the chance that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you, oh
(Now that you're gone) now that you're gone
(Now that you're gone) was what I did so wrong, so wrong
That you had to leave me alone?
Lyrics submitted by oofus, edited by graybook, deborah305
Careless Whisper [Album Version] Lyrics as written by George Michael Andrew J. Ridgeley
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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In his book..>george admits writting this song, while on a city bus. He was rather young. He had one girl he was seeing...but starting seeing another. He cheated...and felt guilty about it..and wrote the entire song on that bus ride. However, now...he doesnt really "like" the song. YES, he still sings it at all his concerts..but it doesnt weigh on his heart like it did decades ago. And rightly so.
For me...and it seems for others...this song, is a timeless classic. It never looses value. It never looses meaning for the broken hearted. I cant listen to it..with out tearing up.I lost the love of my LIFE..over foolish mistakes Ive made. Foolish choices. Foolish everything. There gets to be a point,where they have had "enough". Rightfully so. The lyrics kill me. Just stab me in the heart... To the heart and mind ignorance is kind there's no comfort in the truth pain is all you'll find
Sometimes, the truth is better off left unsaid. Ive learned this.
"Though it's easy to pretend I know you're not a fool I should have known better than to cheat a friend And waste a chance that I've been given So I'm never gonna dance again the way I danced with you"
Its self exsplanitory....you dont cheat friends or lovers. The only one who ends up alone...is YOU in the long run.
Absolutely spot on Mickey
@mickey606 I cant listen to it..with out getting hard......
wottevs
the phrase "So I'm never gonna dance again the way I danced with you" brings chills down my spine. It says so much like I gave you everything but things didn´t work out. And now nothing will be the same in me again
It means he'sgoing to admit his sexuality and not deceive another woman
It's like the video he cheated and his ass got caught and he messed up he is begging for her (it was a her in the video) to come back because noone else can take her place and he wont feel that same feeling with anyone else.
Mickey is right on.
George actually hates this song and says he feels "no connection" to it because it's a series of "soap opera-type images." He wrote this song in his teens before he started writing personal songs. As a result, this song isn't really about anything or anyone at all. It's just a killer melody and some lyrics wrapped around it trying to tell the made-up story of some drama.
I have to disappoint you, he said in an interview that it actually doesn't mean anything to him, it wasn't about someone special, he just wrote the song.
hi, this colum goes in the beginning:
Time can never mend the careless whispers of a good friend To the heart and mind, ignorance is kind there's no comfort in the truth pain is all you'll find
Should've known better
no i doesn't
Okay who re-wrote these lyrics......"We could have been so good together......" It should read. Come on...I was there in the beginning when George Michael started in the Wham Days.....come on if your going to pretend that your a fan, please try to make a effort.....thanks
to me it is about a man that messed up in a loving relationship, now he can't 'dance' (be in a relationship) again, I believe it ties to his song one more try, where I think he is talking about this one relationship that he can't be in, so he stays away from them all
A British reporter investigated George Micheal and interviewed the girl it was about. George and her were friends in school and had a romantic relationship. He dated someone else behind her back and felt guilty. George actually ended the relationship. The ex never knew. He made a demo tape of the song and played it for her but she didn't know it was about his relationship with her. When she found out years later she said it made sense.
Just read anything by Michel Foucault and you'll understand how messed up Georges was