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"
I've been drivin' all night,
My hands are wet on the wheel
There's a voice in my head
That drives my heel
And my baby calls says
She needs me here and
It's half past four
And I'm shifting gear
When she gets lonely
And the longin' gets too much
She sends a cable comin' in from above
We don't need to talk
At all we got a thing
That's called radar love
We got a wave in the air
Radar love
Radio's playin' some forgotten song
Brenda lee's comin' on strong
The road has got me hypnotized
And I'm spinning into a new sunrise
When I get lonely
And I'm sure I've had enough
She sends her comfort coming in from above
We don't need a letter at
All we got a thing that's called radar love
We got a line in the air radar
Love solo no more speed
I'm almost there gotta keep cool now,
Gotta take care last car
To pass here I go
And the line of cars goes down real slow
And the radio played some forgotten song
Brenda lee's comin' strong
And the newsman sang his same song
Oh one more radar lover gone
When I get lonely and I'm sure
I've had enough she sends her comfort
Coming in from above
We don't need a letter at all
We got a thing that's called radar love
We got a line in the sky
We got a thing that's called radar love
We got a thing that's called radar love
My hands are wet on the wheel
There's a voice in my head
That drives my heel
And my baby calls says
She needs me here and
It's half past four
And I'm shifting gear
When she gets lonely
And the longin' gets too much
She sends a cable comin' in from above
We don't need to talk
At all we got a thing
That's called radar love
We got a wave in the air
Radar love
Radio's playin' some forgotten song
Brenda lee's comin' on strong
The road has got me hypnotized
And I'm spinning into a new sunrise
When I get lonely
And I'm sure I've had enough
She sends her comfort coming in from above
We don't need a letter at
All we got a thing that's called radar love
We got a line in the air radar
Love solo no more speed
I'm almost there gotta keep cool now,
Gotta take care last car
To pass here I go
And the line of cars goes down real slow
And the radio played some forgotten song
Brenda lee's comin' strong
And the newsman sang his same song
Oh one more radar lover gone
When I get lonely and I'm sure
I've had enough she sends her comfort
Coming in from above
We don't need a letter at all
We got a thing that's called radar love
We got a line in the sky
We got a thing that's called radar love
We got a thing that's called radar love
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Radar Love Lyrics as written by George Kooymans Barry Hay
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