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Miss You Nights Lyrics
I've had many times
I can tell you
Times when innocence I'd trade for company
And children saw me crying
I thought I'd had my share of that
But these miss you nights
Are the longest
Midnight diamonds
Stud my heaven
Southward burning
Lie the jewels that I obey
Summer warm winds
That embrace me
Just as surely kissed your face
Yeah these miss you nights
Are the longest
How i missed you
I'm not likely to tell
I'm a man and cold daylight
Buys the pride I'd rather sell
All my secrets
Are a wasted affair
You know them well
Thinking of my going
How to cut the thread
And leave it all behind
Looking windward for my compass
I take each day as it arrives
But these miss you nights
Are the longest
Lay down all thoughts of your surrender
It's only me who's killing time
Lay down all dreams and things once remembered
It's just the same
This miss you game
Yeah these miss you nights
Are the longest
I can tell you
Times when innocence I'd trade for company
And children saw me crying
I thought I'd had my share of that
But these miss you nights
Are the longest
Stud my heaven
Southward burning
Lie the jewels that I obey
Summer warm winds
That embrace me
Just as surely kissed your face
Yeah these miss you nights
Are the longest
I'm not likely to tell
I'm a man and cold daylight
Buys the pride I'd rather sell
All my secrets
Are a wasted affair
You know them well
How to cut the thread
And leave it all behind
Looking windward for my compass
I take each day as it arrives
But these miss you nights
Are the longest
It's only me who's killing time
Lay down all dreams and things once remembered
It's just the same
This miss you game
Yeah these miss you nights
Are the longest
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I loved this song. I used to listen to it with my Husband, but I just can't listen to songs anymore because I discovered he is thinking of someone else, someone he loved more than he will ever love me. It was a love affair that couldn't be, and now all he has is songs like this to remind him of her.
@claddagh1956 Forgive me if this reply is out of order. From the other side of the coin; (yes, I too am guilty of this); but if he is still with you, then it means he loves you more because you won! None of us can help our memories, all we can do is let our actions speak for us and hope that others will forgive us our trespasses.
@claddagh1956 Forgive me if this reply is out of order. From the other side of the coin; (yes, I too am guilty of this); but if he is still with you, then it means he loves you more because you won! None of us can help our memories, all we can do is let our actions speak for us and hope that others will forgive us our trespasses.
Let me very freely think out loud about the possible meaning.
I want to believe this song is about consulting your solitary self on whether and how to move on. To give your life a new direction, you feel you must plott a new course ( "looking windward for my compass") and not keep your focus on what once was good.
To reduce the prominance and presence of thoughts ("once remembered") of love that was good, but now gone forever. To raise anchor by dimming the overwhelming sensation of loneliness ("this miss you game") to the right proportion in order to open yourself up for a new love that is out there somewhere to enter into your daily life, and become embraced as real and tangible, provided you do encourage yourself to "leave it all behind".
All the while during what seems a starry night under a familiar sky, you feel at ease and at home within your dreams, that like 'midnight diamonds stud" your "heaven". It all bring back a familiar feeling (that the average grown man will remember from his childhood days, before becoming a teenager) of not being in control of your own destiny.
Not being in charge of a situation, is what makes boys cry, whilst grown men turn silent and start failing to show empathy and emotion, thinking they had had their "share of that".
Possibly the line "Southward burning, lie the jewels that I obey" - that I'd very much like to get explained - makes some reference to asking others who know a few more secrets about live, to guide you as a man in such a situation.
As they once did share that wisdom ("Summer warm winds ... surely kissed your face") with the one, that knew but is gone and now so missed.
But then there is a risk in asking and accepting guidance from someone new, as it could turn out to be a bad swap, trading your "innocence for company".
You fear that by doing so you'll "buy the pride you'd rather sell" as your secrets might end up being squandered on a "wasted affair" not worth "your surrender".
I reckon it is something like that ...
@UnlikelyToTell It seems that the correct phrase is "Southward burning lie the jewels that eye your place". If that\'s the case, I think the whole verse implies that both parts are living under the same sky and feeling the same wind. While he is alone observing the stars and feeling the warm wind, he realizes that she is also watching the same stars and feeling the same wind.
@UnlikelyToTell It seems that the correct phrase is "Southward burning lie the jewels that eye your place". If that\'s the case, I think the whole verse implies that both parts are living under the same sky and feeling the same wind. While he is alone observing the stars and feeling the warm wind, he realizes that she is also watching the same stars and feeling the same wind.