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"
Here in the night love takes control
Making me high
Making me whole
Here in the night love takes control
Making me high
Making me whole
I don't know
Oh, no, no, no
No, I don't know
No, no, no
No, I don't know
When I close my eyes, I can see you lowering yourself to my level
I don't know where you got those clothes
You can take them off if it makes you feel better
Don't stop it now
Now is so right
Now as the day slips away
And we slide into night
I don't know
Oh, no, no, no
No, I don't know know
No, no, no
No, I don't know
I open my eyes and you're there
Even better in the flesh, it would seem
I'm so ready and willing and able it's untrue
To act out this love scene
And make my dreams come true
And how many others have touched themselves whilst looking at pictures of you?
How many others could handle it if all their dreams came true?
I don't expect you to answer straight away
Maybe you're just having an off day
But I need to believe in you
Yes I do
Yes I do
Oh, I want you here in my head
Here in my heart
Here in my head
Live all your dreams for tonight
Here in your bed
I don't know
Oh, no, no, no
No, I don't know
No, no, no
No, I don't know
So roll the soundtrack and dim the lights
'Cause I'm not going home tonight
This love scene has begun
There's nothing left but get it on
Let's make this the greatest love scene from a play no-one's thought up yet
I know you're feeling the same as me but what you gonna do about it?
Now here's an exclusive
I've wanted you for years
I only needed the balls to admit it
When the unbelievable object meets the unstoppable force
There's nothing you can do about it
No
I will light your cigarette with a star that has fallen from the sky
Breathe in, breathe out
I love the way you move
Don't let anyone tell you any different tonight
You are beauty, you are class
You showed it all, but you still kept a little piece back just for me
A little piece back just for me
Just for me
Oh, I don't know how you do it
But I love the way you do it
When you're doing it to me
Na-na-na-na, na-na-na, na-na-na
And if this is a dream then I'm going to sleep for the rest of my life
For the rest of my life
For the rest of my life
For the rest of my life
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Making me high
Making me whole
Here in the night love takes control
Making me high
Making me whole
I don't know
Oh, no, no, no
No, I don't know
No, no, no
No, I don't know
When I close my eyes, I can see you lowering yourself to my level
I don't know where you got those clothes
You can take them off if it makes you feel better
Don't stop it now
Now is so right
Now as the day slips away
And we slide into night
I don't know
Oh, no, no, no
No, I don't know know
No, no, no
No, I don't know
I open my eyes and you're there
Even better in the flesh, it would seem
I'm so ready and willing and able it's untrue
To act out this love scene
And make my dreams come true
And how many others have touched themselves whilst looking at pictures of you?
How many others could handle it if all their dreams came true?
I don't expect you to answer straight away
Maybe you're just having an off day
But I need to believe in you
Yes I do
Yes I do
Oh, I want you here in my head
Here in my heart
Here in my head
Live all your dreams for tonight
Here in your bed
I don't know
Oh, no, no, no
No, I don't know
No, no, no
No, I don't know
So roll the soundtrack and dim the lights
'Cause I'm not going home tonight
This love scene has begun
There's nothing left but get it on
Let's make this the greatest love scene from a play no-one's thought up yet
I know you're feeling the same as me but what you gonna do about it?
Now here's an exclusive
I've wanted you for years
I only needed the balls to admit it
When the unbelievable object meets the unstoppable force
There's nothing you can do about it
No
I will light your cigarette with a star that has fallen from the sky
Breathe in, breathe out
I love the way you move
Don't let anyone tell you any different tonight
You are beauty, you are class
You showed it all, but you still kept a little piece back just for me
A little piece back just for me
Just for me
Oh, I don't know how you do it
But I love the way you do it
When you're doing it to me
Na-na-na-na, na-na-na, na-na-na
And if this is a dream then I'm going to sleep for the rest of my life
For the rest of my life
For the rest of my life
For the rest of my life
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Lyrics submitted by BrownBabu84
Seductive Barry Lyrics as written by Jarvis Branson Cocker Candida Doyle
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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