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"
There'll be no strings to bind your hands
Not if my love can't bind your heart
And there's no need to take a stand
For it was I who chose to start
I see no need to take me home
I'm old enough to face the dawn
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Then slowly turn away
Maybe the sun's light will be dim
And it won't matter anyhow
If morning's echo says we've sinned
Well, it was what I wanted now
And if we're victims of the night
I won't be blinded by the light
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Then slowly turn away
I won't beg you to stay with me
Through the tears of the day, of the years
Baby, baby, baby
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Not if my love can't bind your heart
And there's no need to take a stand
For it was I who chose to start
I see no need to take me home
I'm old enough to face the dawn
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Then slowly turn away
Maybe the sun's light will be dim
And it won't matter anyhow
If morning's echo says we've sinned
Well, it was what I wanted now
And if we're victims of the night
I won't be blinded by the light
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Then slowly turn away
I won't beg you to stay with me
Through the tears of the day, of the years
Baby, baby, baby
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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I think this song is pretty self-explanatory. I first saw it in an episode of Friends and I fell in love with it, 'cause Chrissy Hynde sung it and like every kind of emotion poured out of her. I love this song. Like seriously. I think it says everything... how helpless you feel when someone leaves you, and also how you feel strong enough to carry on. Brilliant.
This song is about a woman who is mature enough to handle a "one night stand".
"And if we're victims of the night/I won't be blinded by the light." In other words, if we die before sunrise, that's cool, because I won't have to live with my raw grief. It IS one of those one-night stands - the kind you don't get over for years. What would life be without 'em?
The song is about premarital sex. The song was written in the 1960's when, at that time premarital sex was viewed as taboo. It has nothing to do with a one night stand; her being dumped, or slutty. Go to "singfacts" and read up on what the song writer and his explanation to the meaning of the song.
i also heard this song on friends. its such a beautiful song.
i dont believe this song is truly about a "one night stand" bc she says towards the end "through the tears of the day, of the years baby" i think its about a woman who was in lovebut he didnt feel the same way anymore and she new it was going to end oneday and she jus didnt know how to stop it, but she can let him go and try and move on.
its not her who has moved on<br /> <br /> "there'll be no string to bind you're hand not if my love can bind your heart"<br /> <br /> shes tried to keep him but cant, hes leaving. (i say "her" as its a "her" singing but of course men have felt this too.
The second to last section is "Just call me angel of the morning angel, just touch my cheek before you leave me oh baby, just call me angel of the morning angel, then slowly turn away, I won't beg you to stay, with me, through the tears of the pain, of the years, oh baby baby baby baby"
The second to last section is "Just call me angel of the morning angel, just touch my cheek before you leave me oh baby, just call me angel of the morning angel, then slowly turn away, I won't beg you to stay, with me, through the tears of the pain, of the years, oh baby baby baby baby"
The second to last section is "Just call me angel of the morning angel, just touch my cheek before you leave me oh baby, just call me angel of the morning angel, then slowly turn away, I won't beg you to stay, with me, through the tears of the pain, of the years, oh baby baby baby baby"
The second to last section is "Just call me angel of the morning angel, just touch my cheek before you leave me oh baby, just call me angel of the morning angel, then slowly turn away, I won't beg you to stay, with me, through the tears of the pain, of the years, oh baby baby baby baby"