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"
I hold your hand in mine
I hold your hand and you're so lonely
Oh so lonely
Your eyes have lost their light
Your eyes have lost their light and you're empty
Oh my God you're so empty
(I'm in love with you)
You are my heaven tonight
(I'm in love with you)
You are my heaven tonight
Trying to find the heart you hide
Trying to find the heart you hide in vain
Oh in vain
And you're my haven in life
And you're my haven in death, Baby
Life and Death my Darling
(I'm in love with you)
You are my heaven tonight
(I'm in love with you)
You are my heaven tonight
(I'm in love with you)
You are my heaven tonight
(I'm in love with you)
You are my heaven tonight
(I'm in love with you)
That's right
(I'm in love with you)
That's right
(I'm in love with you)
That's right
(I'm in love with you)
That's right
(I'm in love with you)
That's right
(I'm in love with you)
That's right
(I'm in love with you)
That's right
(I'm in love with you)
That's right
(I'm in love with you)
I hold your hand and you're so lonely
Oh so lonely
Your eyes have lost their light
Your eyes have lost their light and you're empty
Oh my God you're so empty
(I'm in love with you)
You are my heaven tonight
(I'm in love with you)
You are my heaven tonight
Trying to find the heart you hide
Trying to find the heart you hide in vain
Oh in vain
And you're my haven in life
And you're my haven in death, Baby
Life and Death my Darling
(I'm in love with you)
You are my heaven tonight
(I'm in love with you)
You are my heaven tonight
(I'm in love with you)
You are my heaven tonight
(I'm in love with you)
You are my heaven tonight
(I'm in love with you)
That's right
(I'm in love with you)
That's right
(I'm in love with you)
That's right
(I'm in love with you)
That's right
(I'm in love with you)
That's right
(I'm in love with you)
That's right
(I'm in love with you)
That's right
(I'm in love with you)
That's right
(I'm in love with you)
Lyrics submitted by Kall_it_Karma
Heaven Tonight Lyrics as written by Ville Hermanni Valo
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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this is the most sexual song ever. i know its not actualy about sex, but when you listen to it you can feel ville valo's hot scrawney body, and him breathing on your neck, and oh god the pleasure! hahaha. very very sexual.
Wow,That sounds so nice hehe....Hmmmmmmm
It is a very sexual song. I think it means that the guy has fought temptation and has finally given in to his love's desires. Also, he thinks that their love is so strong that they will still be together even in and after death.
its a great song...is a good parallel to love
this song is just the best ever i love it
Its to bad the lyrics aren't complete, there are parts missing. Anyway, this is one of the best songs ever. Brings back lots of memories. :'(
This is good. Emotional. Lonely, empty and love.
If I ever get married, I want this to be the wedding song. LOL
I have a bit weird opinion bout this song.. Last night when I listened this song, I thinked that it would be something like this: The guy is in love with some girl. He really loves the girl. The guy wants to have sex with the girl but the girl doesn't want it. So the girl gets a feeling that the guy doesn't love her because she doesn't want to have sex with him. But the guy says for the girl that even that we wouldn't have sex right now, I still love you 'cause you're the one for me and I love you so. :)
Weirdly enough i kinda understand :)
Hmm.. i'm not so sure about that one^
i'm not either. how did you get that?