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"
You look sweet as ever
Just how I picture you
Swear that you're looking better
And that's so hard to do
Girl, I hope you don't mind
If I reminisce on the time
When I was your guy and you were my girl
There was nobody else in my world
Let's get the mood right
Turn on your heart light
Put on that old red dress
Baby, let's cruise (Baby let's cruise)
Baby it's your night
Blow out the candlelight
We're going out tonight
Just me and you
Guess there ain't no denying
You just get better with time
You don't think I'm sincere
Let me make it perfectly clear
You still make me rise
With those sweet bedroom eyes
And how could I forget?
How much I love the sex
And you're still the love of my life
Let's get the mood right
Turn on your heart light
Put on that old red dress
Baby, let's cruise (Oh, I wanna groove tonight)
Baby it's your night
Blow out the candlelight
We're going out tonight
Just me and you
When I think of our moments together
It just touches my heart
Don't you know it makes me wonder
How we could have fallen apart
Baby I swear from this moment on
I will be there
Keeping it going on
For the rest of my life
I'll be singing
My, my, my, my, my, my
Let's get the mood right
Turn on your heart light
Put on that old red dress
Baby, let's cruise (Oh, I wanna groove tonight)
Baby it's your night
Blow out the candlelight
We're going out tonight
Just me and you
Let's get the mood right
Turn on your heart light
Put on that old red dress
Baby, let's cruise (Oh, I wanna groove tonight)
Baby it's your night
Blow out the candlelight
We're going out tonight
Just me and you
We're gonna groove, yeah, listen
Baby let's cruise (Baby let's cruise)
Let's just get in the mood (Just me and you)
Baby let's cruise (I want to cruise)
Let's just get in the mood (Just me and you)
Baby let's cruise (Baby let's cruise)
Let's just get in the mood (Baby let's cruise)
Baby let's cruise
Let's just get in the mood (Baby let's cruise)
Just how I picture you
Swear that you're looking better
And that's so hard to do
Girl, I hope you don't mind
If I reminisce on the time
When I was your guy and you were my girl
There was nobody else in my world
Let's get the mood right
Turn on your heart light
Put on that old red dress
Baby, let's cruise (Baby let's cruise)
Baby it's your night
Blow out the candlelight
We're going out tonight
Just me and you
Guess there ain't no denying
You just get better with time
You don't think I'm sincere
Let me make it perfectly clear
You still make me rise
With those sweet bedroom eyes
And how could I forget?
How much I love the sex
And you're still the love of my life
Let's get the mood right
Turn on your heart light
Put on that old red dress
Baby, let's cruise (Oh, I wanna groove tonight)
Baby it's your night
Blow out the candlelight
We're going out tonight
Just me and you
When I think of our moments together
It just touches my heart
Don't you know it makes me wonder
How we could have fallen apart
Baby I swear from this moment on
I will be there
Keeping it going on
For the rest of my life
I'll be singing
My, my, my, my, my, my
Let's get the mood right
Turn on your heart light
Put on that old red dress
Baby, let's cruise (Oh, I wanna groove tonight)
Baby it's your night
Blow out the candlelight
We're going out tonight
Just me and you
Let's get the mood right
Turn on your heart light
Put on that old red dress
Baby, let's cruise (Oh, I wanna groove tonight)
Baby it's your night
Blow out the candlelight
We're going out tonight
Just me and you
We're gonna groove, yeah, listen
Baby let's cruise (Baby let's cruise)
Let's just get in the mood (Just me and you)
Baby let's cruise (I want to cruise)
Let's just get in the mood (Just me and you)
Baby let's cruise (Baby let's cruise)
Let's just get in the mood (Baby let's cruise)
Baby let's cruise
Let's just get in the mood (Baby let's cruise)
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Let's Get the Mood Right Lyrics as written by Kenneth Edmonds
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