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"
Taste it in the air so sweet
Because they come alive
My visions of the city street
All of electrify
I feel your heat
I never wanna let you go
I rock too this beat
I'm standing here to let you know
Yeah you can write me a love letter
But there's nothing to say
Don't wanna take a chance on your paper romance anyway
Yea you can rub it off much better
If you come away
My golden heart beats for you
My golden heart beats for two
I feel my pain
The time it takes
For us to change
Its gonna happen anyway
I feel your heat
I never wanna let you go
I rock to this beat
I'm standing here to let you know
Yeah you can write me a love letter
But there's nothing to say
Don't wanna take a chance on your paper romance anyway
Yea you can rub it off much better
If you come away
Yeah you can write me a love letter
But there's nothing to say
Don't wanna take a chance on your paper romance anyway
Yeah you can write me a love letter
But there's nothing to say
Don't wanna take a chance on your paper romance anyway
Yea you can rub it off much better
If you come away
Because they come alive
My visions of the city street
All of electrify
I feel your heat
I never wanna let you go
I rock too this beat
I'm standing here to let you know
Yeah you can write me a love letter
But there's nothing to say
Don't wanna take a chance on your paper romance anyway
Yea you can rub it off much better
If you come away
My golden heart beats for you
My golden heart beats for two
I feel my pain
The time it takes
For us to change
Its gonna happen anyway
I feel your heat
I never wanna let you go
I rock to this beat
I'm standing here to let you know
Yeah you can write me a love letter
But there's nothing to say
Don't wanna take a chance on your paper romance anyway
Yea you can rub it off much better
If you come away
Yeah you can write me a love letter
But there's nothing to say
Don't wanna take a chance on your paper romance anyway
Yeah you can write me a love letter
But there's nothing to say
Don't wanna take a chance on your paper romance anyway
Yea you can rub it off much better
If you come away
Lyrics submitted by EnidCaulfield, edited by lolomgrofl
Paper Romance Lyrics as written by Becky Jones Andrew Derek Cocup
Lyrics © Royalty Network
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First off, I believe the chorus is:
"Yeah you can write me a love letter but there's nothing to say I don't wanna take a chance on your paper romance anyway
Yeah you can love me up much better If you come our way I don't wanna take a chance on your paper romance anyway"
To me, this song is about the love of money and material possessions. He doesn't want to risk selling his soul for money. He would be much more inclined to love it if he got rich, but it's not worth taking that chance. Confused creatures come alive in the electrified city streets with all of the glitz and glamor and things that seem real and valuable.
"The time it takes for us to change it's gonna happen anyway"
I love this line. I think he's saying by the time we as a society give up this self-destructive love of material wealth, society will have already self-destructed and we will have started over.
Beautiful song, I could be off base but this is what is in my heart every time I hear the song.
After listening closely to a live version played on BBC6, I think this is correct:<br /> "yeah you can rub me off much better<br /> if you come our way"
nice song
Male in verses claims that he loves her. Female in verses replies that his love is only on paper, not real, just paper romance
First of all I love this song!
I don't know why but I think this song means that he fell in love with a prostitute but he doesn't want a romance he has to pay for.
Let the correct lyrics for the album version of the song is this:
Taste it in the air so sweet Creatures they come alive Confliction on the city streets All of electrified
I feel your heat I never wanna let you go I rock to this beat I'm standing here to let you know
Yeah you can write me a love letter But there's nothing to say I don't wanna take a chance on your paper romance anyway Yeah you can rub me off much better If you come our away I don't wanna take a chance on your paper romance anyway
My golden heart beats for two My golden heart beats for you I feel our pain The time it takes For us to change It's gonna happen anyway
I feel your heat I never wanna let you know I rock to this beat I'm standing here to let you know
Yeah you can write me a love letter But there's nothing to say I don't wanna take a chance on your paper romance anyway Yeah you can rub me off much better If you come our away I don't wanna take a chance on your paper romance anyway
Yeah you can write me a love letter But there's nothing to say I don't wanna take a chance on your paper romance anyway Yeah you can rub me off much better If you come our away I don't wanna take a chance on your paper romance anyway
Yeah you can write me a love letter But there's nothing to say I don't wanna take a chance on your paper romance anyway Yeah you can rub me off much better If you come our away I don't wanna take a chance on your paper romance anyway