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"
Oh, oh, starry eyed (starry)
Oh, oh
Starry eyed
Hit, hit, hit, hit, hit me with lightning
Handle bars, and then I let go, let go for anyone
Take me in, and throw out my heart and get a new one
Next thing we're touching
You look at me it's like you hit me with lightning
Ah
Oh, everybody's starry eyed
And everybody glows
Oh, everybody's starry eyed
And my body goes
Whoa, oh, oh, ah, ah
Whoa, oh, oh, ah, ah
Whoa, oh, oh, ah, ah
So we burst into colors, colors and carousels
Fall head first like paper planes in playground games
Next thing we're touching
You look at me it's like you hit me with lightning
Ah
Oh, everybody's starry eyed
And everybody glows
Oh, everybody's starry eyed
And my body goes
Whoa, oh, oh, ah, ah
Whoa, oh, oh, ah, ah
Whoa, oh, oh, ah, ah
Next thing we're touching (oh whoa, whoa)
Next thing we're touching (and I let go)
Next thing we're touching (oh whoa, whoa)
Next thing we're touching (we come and go but we're not in love)
Next thing we're touching (oh whoa, whoa)
Next thing we're touching (we come and go but we're not in love)
Next thing we're touching
Next thing we're touching
Hit me with lightning
Oh, everybody's starry eyed
And everybody glows
Oh, everybody's starry eyed
And my body goes
Oh, everybody's starry eyed (everybody's starry eyed)
And everybody glows
Oh, everybody's starry eyed (oh, everybody, whoa-oh)
And my body goes (oh-ooh, whoa, whoa, whoa)
Whoa oh oh ah ah (whoa, whoa, whoa)
Whoa oh oh ah ah (whoa, where my body goes?)
Ah, oh, ooh-ooh
Oh, oh
Starry eyed
Hit, hit, hit, hit, hit me with lightning
Handle bars, and then I let go, let go for anyone
Take me in, and throw out my heart and get a new one
Next thing we're touching
You look at me it's like you hit me with lightning
Ah
Oh, everybody's starry eyed
And everybody glows
Oh, everybody's starry eyed
And my body goes
Whoa, oh, oh, ah, ah
Whoa, oh, oh, ah, ah
Whoa, oh, oh, ah, ah
So we burst into colors, colors and carousels
Fall head first like paper planes in playground games
Next thing we're touching
You look at me it's like you hit me with lightning
Ah
Oh, everybody's starry eyed
And everybody glows
Oh, everybody's starry eyed
And my body goes
Whoa, oh, oh, ah, ah
Whoa, oh, oh, ah, ah
Whoa, oh, oh, ah, ah
Next thing we're touching (oh whoa, whoa)
Next thing we're touching (and I let go)
Next thing we're touching (oh whoa, whoa)
Next thing we're touching (we come and go but we're not in love)
Next thing we're touching (oh whoa, whoa)
Next thing we're touching (we come and go but we're not in love)
Next thing we're touching
Next thing we're touching
Hit me with lightning
Oh, everybody's starry eyed
And everybody glows
Oh, everybody's starry eyed
And my body goes
Oh, everybody's starry eyed (everybody's starry eyed)
And everybody glows
Oh, everybody's starry eyed (oh, everybody, whoa-oh)
And my body goes (oh-ooh, whoa, whoa, whoa)
Whoa oh oh ah ah (whoa, whoa, whoa)
Whoa oh oh ah ah (whoa, where my body goes?)
Ah, oh, ooh-ooh
Lyrics submitted by mamamadeline, edited by janeaparis1
Starry Eyed Lyrics as written by Jonathan Lattimer Elena Goulding
Lyrics © Global Talent Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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This is one of my favourite Ellie Goulding songs, love it!!
As to what it's about, I read an interview with Ellie the other day and she said this:
"It's about letting go. As opposed to all the sad and depressing things I write about, I decided to write something about the joining together of people in some kind of euphoric state - be it at a festival, at a show or in a club. I wanted a song that would reach out to people of every background and every enjoyment, whether you enjoy a natural high, taking drugs, drinking or whatever. Because I'm essentially a pop artist I wanted to write a song that everyone can relate to."
I can't help but to dance this everytime it comes on. I'm laying on my side in my bed trying to move my hips and my brother just walked in and was like, "What are you doing???"
She went from childhood ("handle bars") to falling in and out of "love" -- and then she meets him. And everything else was nothing, because when they touch, there are fireworks in the sky and it's like lightning has hit her.
I think this pretty accurately depicts true first love that transforms your whole world. You see everything with rose-tinted glasses ("everybody's starry eyed") and you've got that love energy making you glow ("my body glows").
This is what people talk about when they say "it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all," except after you've had a love like this, you're not sure you agree, because it's been five years and sometimes you still think about them, even though you're over them and have moved on.
Great comment, esp. your last paragraph. I agree that it's a first love, because when it's a first love, you thrill at the slightest touch from the other person. You can go on to love others, but nothing is as exciting as that first time.
Yeah sounds like a bunch of people rolling on E at a dance party, why else would people be "starry eyed"?
Starry eyed is means being in love. Ever hear the expression she/he has stars in her eyes?
brilliant song. she's going to be sooo big this year.
This song is actually about physical attraction to the opposite sex, noting to do will love just physical attraction. She said this in an interview that you can find on her vevo page on youtube.
Sorry but this is one of the most annoying songs I've heard in a long time and the lyrics are terrible
I'm pretty sure this song is about having sex or some type of intimate encounter with someone you're really really into. I wouldn't say the relationship is serious, but based more in the moment and that "love at first sight" physical attraction.
It's really catchy though. Ellie Goulding is going to be the next big indie thing.
I'm pretty sure it's "everybody glows", not "everybody goes".
Anyway, brilliant song. Love it.
Yea i think its glows too, coz she does and acoustic version on youtube and it sounds like glows :) x
Nope, it's definitely GOES, not glows.
MI'M pretty sure this bout th feects of e not only is the video trippy but eveybody is starry eyed n bursting with colors etc great song while rolling n watching da music video as well
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Ellie Goulding's great, she's gonna hit it! Indie <3
Jakwob remix is great, Russ Chimes one is the best though
Aw hell, the Jakwob remix roooooooocks !!!