Daniel Lyrics
In this song, the narrator has a crush on the fictional character Daniel Larusso. She watches The Karate Kid one summer, (wild blue skies) and falls in love with him, or the idea of him.
The "fires" might be her desire to be with him, and she has a dream that he takes her somewhere in a car and makes love to her.
"When I run in the dark" is escaping into her imaginary world to be with him.
She is lying awake one night and realizes that he isn't real, and she can't have him ("Goodbye bed") and feels lost and disconnected ("just kids in the eye of the storm")
And she decides that she needs to keep searching for that "flame" that Daniel had, but in a real person. Basically, she starts looking for her real-life Daniel, and that feeling of this person you love being your home.
Beautiful, beautiful song. Everybody deserves a Daniel.
I agree that this song seems to be about first love that was lost but at a slightly different angle.
I feel like, obviously this song is about her first crush/love Daniel Larusso. But of course, he wasn't real. She didn't personally know him, but in admiring from afar, he felt like "home" to her, like she knew his soul. I feel like this song is about trying to find the real version of Daniel in someone else. Like in the last verse with the "goodbye bed", it seems like she's saying goodbye to the unrealistic crush she has on this fictional persona and is realizing she needs to find someone in the real world to love.
"Just kids in the eye of the storm
And as my head spun 'round
My dreams pulled me from the ground
Forever to search for the flame
For home again
For home again"
So she realizes that her idealistic crush on this celebrity was childish but now she seems determined to find someone in her own life that reminds her of the soul and "fire" that first attracted her. This can be attributed to everyone's first love because I feel like after that person (if you ended it when you didn't want to) is the person you compare every love/crush afterwards to and it is the hardest battle to give up looking for the perfect replacement. She describes it so beautifully by comparing it to a child crush. The lyrics and music are so haunting and dreamlike. I want to live in this song.
ROOOFFFFFLLLLLLL
ROOOFFFFFLLLLLLL
Ralph Macchio in the Karate Kid was my first crush too. I saw the Karate Kid on my 11th birthday and prior to that I had NO interest in boys but Daniel Larusso awakened feelings in me that were never there before. Television and movies create unrealistic expectations for love and it is depressing as hell when you realize these will never be fulfilled. I believe this is what the singer/writer is alluding to.
I'm hearing the lyrics a little differently. Can anyone confirm?
Daniel, when I first saw you I knew that you had, a flame in your heart And under wild blue sky Marble movie skies I found a home in your eyes We'll never be apart
And when the fires came The smell of cinders and rain Perfumed almost everything We laughed and laughed and laughed And in a golden blue car you took me to, the darkest place you knew and set fire to my heart
When I run in the dark (Daniel) To a place that's lost (Daniel) Under a sheet of rain in my heart (Daniel) I dream of home
But in a goodbye bed With my arms around your neck Into our mouth the tears crept Just kids in the eye of the storm And as my house spun round My dreams pulled me from the ground Forever to search for the flame For home again (for) home again
When I run in the dark (Daniel) (in)To a place that's lost (Daniel) Under a sheet of rain in my heart (Daniel) I dream of home
When I run in the dark (Daniel) (in)To a place that's lost (Daniel) Under a sheet of rain in my heart (Daniel) I dream of home
(i'm seriously addicted to this song... i need help)
My ears mostly agree with your lyrics, especially "into a place that's LOST" I don't know why someone thought vast was right. I hear a few differences tho: "and under war blue skies"(doesn't sound like wild at all), "we would never be apart"(as opposed to "we'll" which is the contracted from of "we will"), "in THE gold n' blue" (sounds identical to golden-blue but makes more sense), "but in a goodbye BET" (as much as bed initially seems to make better sense, the "T" sound is unmistakably pronounced with emphasis. I take "goodbye bet" to mean a sort of...
My ears mostly agree with your lyrics, especially "into a place that's LOST" I don't know why someone thought vast was right. I hear a few differences tho: "and under war blue skies"(doesn't sound like wild at all), "we would never be apart"(as opposed to "we'll" which is the contracted from of "we will"), "in THE gold n' blue" (sounds identical to golden-blue but makes more sense), "but in a goodbye BET" (as much as bed initially seems to make better sense, the "T" sound is unmistakably pronounced with emphasis. I take "goodbye bet" to mean a sort of planned break up.
To me the song is clearly about wanting to return to an idyllic(at least in memory) past in which a lost lover resides.
I think the video kind of relates to the chorus...when she's in a bad state of mind or feeling a little blue (the weird balloon people are possibly a physical depiction of this) she seeks comfort in the idea of Daniel (Daniel Larusso is a symbol for all that innocent love stuff)who she is reunited with at the end.
Also someone mentioned the thing about the Wizard of Oz? Yeah, I totally picked that up when I first heard this and the reference to the emerald city in Glass.
This song is so beautiful. It is very addictive and I can not stop listening to it either. I especially love the part:
"But in a goodbye bed With my arms around your neck Into our mouths the tears crept"
Her voice is so beautiful and so is she. This song is so beautiful. Everything about it.
I love this song, too.
I love this song, too.
This song is so good. The chorus reminds me so much of any Fleetwood Mac song. I seriously can't stop listening to it.
Yeah, if there's any link to Fleetwood Mac that can be made about her music, it's THIS song and THIS sound (also the backing vocals)
Yeah, if there's any link to Fleetwood Mac that can be made about her music, it's THIS song and THIS sound (also the backing vocals)
can't stop listening to this
the ridiculously eighties sound makes the nostalgia even more wonderful. quite bitter and melancholy, really. but it really adds to the whole point of the song.