Feel I'm goin' back to Massachusetts
Something's telling me I must go home
And the lights all went out in Massachusetts
The day I left her standing on her own

Tried to hitch a ride to San Francisco
Gotta do the things I wanna do
And the lights all went out in Massachusetts
They brought me back to see my way with you

Talk about the life in Massachusetts
Speak about the people I have seen
And the lights all went out in Massachusetts
And Massachusetts is one place I have seen

I will remember Massachusetts

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General CommentThis song has a surreal beauty to it, it's definently one of my favorite bee gees songs. robyn's voice is haunting as usual.
turquoiseumbrellaon March 02, 2005 Link
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This song is about love and loss. He leaves her to go out on his own, regrets it, comes back and it's too late. She either left, found another, whatever. It becomes just,"one place I have seen".
wendy23373on September 09, 2013
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General CommentI think it references a major blackout that happened in the Northeastern United States and Maritime Canada in the late sixties. I'm a native of Massachusetts and remember hearing this song when I was young, I thought it was the state song (it should be), and again when I was an exchange student in Germany in the early 1990s (I was at an anniversary dinner at a restaurant outside of Neu Ulm with my host family, the hosts of the dinner hired a musician who played this song).
MrGoodmorningon October 03, 2009 Link
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@MrGoodmorning Thanks, I was thinking something like that. The headquarters of my religion is in Massachusetts so this song has powerful metaphorical meaning for me.
CyranoSqon September 06, 2019
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General Commentthis song says that Massachusetts is a good place for the person that speaks in the song.
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General Commenthe's coming back to that state to reunite with is lover!
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General CommentIt's an anti flower power song!
songmeaningsfanon April 10, 2012 Link
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Correct, it is an hippie regret song aka going to San Francisco (with flowers in your hair), "Gotta do the things I wanna do", leaving a girl friend behind. Basically, a home sick song. The " lights all went out in Massachusetts" reference is a metaphor for the rush, or huge movement to the west coast at this time generated by the Flowers in your hair song.
Kind of like saying the lights went out on the east coast went gold was discovered in the California Gold Rush (1848–1855).

Ocracokeon December 25, 2013
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Song FactWhere is the person supposed to be... I assume he is not in Massachusetts on the basis he wants to go back there.
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