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"
Bell bottom blues, you made me cry
I don't want to lose this feeling
And if I could choose a place to die
It would be in your arms
Do you want to see me crawl across the floor to you?
Do you want to hear me beg you to take me back?
I'd gladly do it because
I don't want to fade away
Give me one more day, please
I don't want to fade away
In your heart I want to stay
It's all wrong, but it's all right
The way that you treat me baby
Once I was strong but I lost the fight
You won't find a better loser
Do you want to see me crawl across the floor to you?
Do you want to hear me beg you to take me back?
I'd gladly do it because
I don't want to fade away
Give me one more day, please
I don't want to fade away
In your heart I want to stay
Do you want to see me crawl across the floor to you?
Do you want to hear me beg you to take me back?
I'd gladly do it 'cause
I don't want to fade away
Give me one more day, please
I don't want to fade away
In your heart I want to stay
Bell bottom blues, don't say goodbye
I'm sure we're gonna meet again
And if we do, don't you be surprised
If you find me with another lover
Do you want to see me crawl across the floor to you?
Do you want to hear me beg you to take me back?
I'd gladly do it 'cause
I don't want to fade away
Give me one more day, please
I don't want to fade away
In your heart I want to stay
I don't want to fade away
Give me one more day please
I don't want to fade away
In your heart I want to stay
I don't want to fade away
Give me one more day please
I don't want to fade away
In your heart I want to stay
I don't want to lose this feeling
And if I could choose a place to die
It would be in your arms
Do you want to see me crawl across the floor to you?
Do you want to hear me beg you to take me back?
I'd gladly do it because
I don't want to fade away
Give me one more day, please
I don't want to fade away
In your heart I want to stay
It's all wrong, but it's all right
The way that you treat me baby
Once I was strong but I lost the fight
You won't find a better loser
Do you want to see me crawl across the floor to you?
Do you want to hear me beg you to take me back?
I'd gladly do it because
I don't want to fade away
Give me one more day, please
I don't want to fade away
In your heart I want to stay
Do you want to see me crawl across the floor to you?
Do you want to hear me beg you to take me back?
I'd gladly do it 'cause
I don't want to fade away
Give me one more day, please
I don't want to fade away
In your heart I want to stay
Bell bottom blues, don't say goodbye
I'm sure we're gonna meet again
And if we do, don't you be surprised
If you find me with another lover
Do you want to see me crawl across the floor to you?
Do you want to hear me beg you to take me back?
I'd gladly do it 'cause
I don't want to fade away
Give me one more day, please
I don't want to fade away
In your heart I want to stay
I don't want to fade away
Give me one more day please
I don't want to fade away
In your heart I want to stay
I don't want to fade away
Give me one more day please
I don't want to fade away
In your heart I want to stay
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Amazing song, especially the solo, there's a tonne of emotion in it. A song about unrequited love in my opinion (as is the whole "Layla..." album) most likely the love of Pattie Boyd, and this woman doesn't want to be with him, and he's basically begging for her. Then again it may not fit in with the whole Pattie Boyd situation.
This is probably about Patti Harrison ( = Layla). Incredibly beautiful song . . One of my favorites to hear on classic rock radio.
sheesh she eventually became Mrs Clapton, but EC found out the hard way that loving the wrong someone can be bad...
As I had just read in Eric's autobiography, this is a song about Pattie Boyd.
Before Eric was ready to leave for Miami to record the Layla record, Pattie "asked me to get her some pairs of these jeans we used to wear called Landlubbers, which were hipsters with two little slip pockets at the front. She had asked for flared rather than straight bottoms, so I had written "Bell Bottom Blues" for her.
So there it is.
Major goosebumps! Beautiful love song! This song was the first E.C. song I remember hearing back in 5th grade and that all it took for to be a huge lifelong fan. It made a big impact on me then and now. Probably a top ten alltime song in my book.
this so is about patti, but hes not talking to her, hes talking about the music he has been playing thru his broken heart, he wouldnt mention to songs directly at her when layla does it perfectly, this sng is about the music he has written from the pain she gave him.
amazing record, amazing guitarist, amazing man
This song really resonated with me when I lost a girl I loved. I actually broke it off because I was scared of family conflicts, and after several months tried to go back to her, but she wouldn't open herself up again. She wanted to throw away or give back everything I had ever given her, and it felt to me that doing so would cause me to fade away and disappear from her heart. Maybe it is about Patti, but she had rebuffed him at some point.
This song really resonated with me when I lost a girl I loved. I actually broke it off because I was scared of family conflicts, and after several months tried to go back to her, but she wouldn't open herself up again. She wanted to throw away or give back everything I had ever given her, and it felt to me that doing so would cause me to fade away and disappear from her heart. Maybe it is about Patti, but she had rebuffed him at some point.
I was probably 9 or 10 when I first heard this song. The songs meaning for me is different from probably anyone else. My mom left me before I started elementary school. She didn’t come back until I was around 10. My mom wore those bell bottoms when she came back into my life. Life was hell while she was gone. I would do anything for her to come back. But it wasn’t under my control. She had to decide. I just knew I loved her and needed her desperately. I felt like her faded jeans. That I had faded away since she’d been gone. I needed permanence. This song always brings me to tears. No matter what or who Clapton wrote it about, it represented my mother and myself. I wanted to be loved and important in my moms life. I didn’t want to fade away from her memory. Took me a long time to realize that there was nothing I could do alone to fill the void.