This song is timeless, and nearly 20 years after its creation, still possesses the mystique it did the first time i heard it ~1994. To me, at first blush, all those years ago, it had some kind of homo-erotic allure. The line "so that the others may do" tells of something which must be done for others to follow suit. It felt like like some kind of roxy-glam-pop invitation to sexual liberation.
Upon further introspection I think the song may not have an intrinsic meaning, but simply represents a sort of "holding open the door" for people who otherwise might be affronted by this song/band's unusual style. I know, as a sort of armchair rock-historian, that there have been few bands so daring and so true to the sound that wanted to emerge from within, whether the creator wanted it or not. This band handled it with elegance and grace seldom, if ever, seen.
Ready here I come
Come down to my level
And you say
Everything's been said before
When you say
You win
Ready here I come
Come down to my level
When you doubt
All the change that comes to you
When you doubt
All the chance that someday makes you
The best part of you
The best part of you
The best part of you (Holding onto one last memory)
The best part of you (Of when we were still talking)
The best part of you (Time has handed us our differences)
Was me (Funny how it ends)
Ready here I come
Come down to my level
Come down to my level
And you say
Everything's been said before
When you say
You win
Ready here I come
Come down to my level
When you doubt
All the change that comes to you
When you doubt
All the chance that someday makes you
The best part of you
The best part of you
The best part of you (Holding onto one last memory)
The best part of you (Of when we were still talking)
The best part of you (Time has handed us our differences)
Was me (Funny how it ends)
Ready here I come
Come down to my level
Lyrics submitted by katievcj
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