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"
(Party lights, I see the party lights) whoa
(They're red and blue and green) the lights
(Everybody in the crowd's there) mama, I want to go, go,
(They really make a scene) go, go, go, go, yeah, yeah (mama, mama)
Well, mama dear, tell me, do you hear?
They're partying tonight
I tell you, I can't sleep
Because across the street
Whoa, oh, I see the party lights (mama, mama)
I see the lights, I see the party lights
They're red and blue and green
Everybody in the crowd's there
But you won't let me make a scene
Well, mama dear, look here, oh dear
There goes Mary Lou
I see Tommy and Joe, oh, oh, and Betty and Sue
Oh, oh, and there goes my boyfriend too
I see the lights
I see the lights, I see the party lights
They're red and blue and green
Everybody in the crowd's there
But you won't let me make a scene
Listen to the party, mama!
Well, mama dear, look here, oh dear
I'm feeling oh-so blue
They're doin' the twist, the fish, the mashed potatoes too
I'm here-a lookin' at you
I see the lights
I see the lights, I see the party lights
They're red and blue and green
Everybody in the crowd's there
But you won't let me make a scene
They're doin' the fish, they're doin' the twist
The watusi, the mashed potatoes
I see the lights, I see the lights
They're doin' the bop, I want to go (mama, mama)
I want to go (see the lights, I see the party lights)
I want to go
I want to go (they're red and blue and green)
I really love it
(They're red and blue and green) the lights
(Everybody in the crowd's there) mama, I want to go, go,
(They really make a scene) go, go, go, go, yeah, yeah (mama, mama)
Well, mama dear, tell me, do you hear?
They're partying tonight
I tell you, I can't sleep
Because across the street
Whoa, oh, I see the party lights (mama, mama)
I see the lights, I see the party lights
They're red and blue and green
Everybody in the crowd's there
But you won't let me make a scene
Well, mama dear, look here, oh dear
There goes Mary Lou
I see Tommy and Joe, oh, oh, and Betty and Sue
Oh, oh, and there goes my boyfriend too
I see the lights
I see the lights, I see the party lights
They're red and blue and green
Everybody in the crowd's there
But you won't let me make a scene
Listen to the party, mama!
Well, mama dear, look here, oh dear
I'm feeling oh-so blue
They're doin' the twist, the fish, the mashed potatoes too
I'm here-a lookin' at you
I see the lights
I see the lights, I see the party lights
They're red and blue and green
Everybody in the crowd's there
But you won't let me make a scene
They're doin' the fish, they're doin' the twist
The watusi, the mashed potatoes
I see the lights, I see the lights
They're doin' the bop, I want to go (mama, mama)
I want to go (see the lights, I see the party lights)
I want to go
I want to go (they're red and blue and green)
I really love it
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Party Lights Lyrics as written by Claudine Clark
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