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"
Sometimes you get what you want
Sometimes you get what you need
Sometimes you find everything in me
There's times it doesn't make sense
And I can barely believe
That you still find anything in me
I'm comin' apart, I'm comin' to you
This game has pushed us so far
Can you pull me through?
Maybe tonight, maybe tonight
Maybe tonight, we'll find a place, between you and me
The cost is selling you short
The life that gets in the way
I finally feel strong enough to pray
The words that I couldn't keep
But always meant to say
How can we find the time to fill this space?
I'm comin' apart, I'm comin' to you
This game has pushed us so far
Can you pull me through?
Maybe tonight, maybe tonight
Maybe tonight, we'll find our way
Maybe tonight, we'll find a place, between you and me
We're so close, just make it stay
I have lived to feel this way
It's been down but we're not out
This is all I need right now
Sometimes you get what you want
Sometimes you get what you need
Sometimes you find everything in me
Maybe tonight, maybe tonight
Maybe tonight, we'll find our way
Maybe tonight, we'll find a place, between you and me
Sometimes you get what you need
Sometimes you find everything in me
There's times it doesn't make sense
And I can barely believe
That you still find anything in me
I'm comin' apart, I'm comin' to you
This game has pushed us so far
Can you pull me through?
Maybe tonight, maybe tonight
Maybe tonight, we'll find a place, between you and me
The cost is selling you short
The life that gets in the way
I finally feel strong enough to pray
The words that I couldn't keep
But always meant to say
How can we find the time to fill this space?
I'm comin' apart, I'm comin' to you
This game has pushed us so far
Can you pull me through?
Maybe tonight, maybe tonight
Maybe tonight, we'll find our way
Maybe tonight, we'll find a place, between you and me
We're so close, just make it stay
I have lived to feel this way
It's been down but we're not out
This is all I need right now
Sometimes you get what you want
Sometimes you get what you need
Sometimes you find everything in me
Maybe tonight, maybe tonight
Maybe tonight, we'll find our way
Maybe tonight, we'll find a place, between you and me
Lyrics submitted by Junesong Provision
Maybe Tonight Lyrics as written by William Tell Michael Joseph Green
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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These are actually lyrics to trouble.. which i already posted and they are waiting for confirmation to be added.
younglove r, do u actually have the cd? because although the song trouble has the words "maybe tonight" in it, it is a different song. this is the correct song for these lyrics.
yeah this is definately maybe tonight. what a great song.
i do have the cd. this is trouble. i know what i am talking about.
Maybe Tonight is such a beautiful song... live and acoustic it sounds even more amazing than the CD version.
And don't get mad at younglove_r because apparently on some of the CD's that were released "Trouble" and "Maybe Tonight"'s places were swapped... so people think Trouble is Maybe Tonight now and vice versa...
This song is about two people that realize they have a chance together. Although they have had problems in the past, "Maybe Tonight" something will happen.
Somehow the two people didn't feel a connection for some time, but eventually realize they are falling for each other. It takes a lot out of each of them, "This game has pushed you so far, can you pull me through?" But it seems they are willing.
Their lives are diferent, but somehow they find each other, "Sometimes you get what you want, sometimes you get what you need, sometimes you find everything in me." And regardless of their diferences, they want, even need each other.