Easy Tonight Lyrics
You are gone Tonight
You were free So alive
You were wrong You were right
You wore hearts for me
You were sharp Sharp as knives
You were wrong You were right
Took a ride on a suicide romance
Could have sworn there was somebody home
To facilitate the great unknown
Woman, I ain’t going to meet you anywhere
Don’t know where I’m going yet…But I sure am getting there Shotgun fire… anybody home
I got two dimes in the telephone
Alright… It’s not easy tonight
You wear black for me
You were dark Dark as night
You were wrong You were right
Took a ride on a suicide romance
Could have sworn there was somebody home
To facilitate the great unknown
But woman, I ain’t going to meet you anywhere
Don’t know where I’m going yet…But I sure am getting there
I got two dimes in the telephone
Alright… It’s not easy tonight
I got two dimes in the telephone
Alright… It’s not easy tonight
this song IS about suicide, but according to john, the girl in the song ends up not taking the easy way out and doesn't kill herself...so it's a message of hope
I think this is about something much more common than suicide. It is about two people being attracted to each other but not compatible. Think about it, what is the most frequent line in the song? "You were wrong, you were right." She told him that she was wrong for him and now he sees that she was right about that. They like each other but in front of the movie theater they are pulling in opposite directions - they each want something different from life.
They are having fun, but he says "you were dark, dark as night" - he can't see into her head and understand what goes on there, it is all dark to him, the "great unknown". He goes to her building but can't get in - it is her mind that he can't see into. Finally she decides to throw the keys to him, to let him in, to show him what is inside. But when he runs inside it is empty to him, what is there has no real meaning to him so he can't see it at all. She was right, she was wrong.
I believe reading somewhere this song is about suicide. the lead singer ( can't think of his name) said a misjudgement about this song is so many people think that its about love. It makes sense. If anybody cares to help out, please do.
"Easy Tonight" is actually about a guy, whose girlfriend takes her life, and it's basically about this guy trying to put the pieces of his life back together.
thanks
yup, suicide. SHOTGUN FIRE...
Man, now that I've read the lyrics, this song sounds sooo dark...and eerie...and just depressing, man! w00t @@;;; Well, uhhhmm.... I agree with everyone, because of the suicide thingy and the music video. That girl creeps me out. Anywho, w00t. Cya!
if you pay attention, a lot of FFF's songs are really dark
if you pay attention, a lot of FFF's songs are really dark
this song has had one hell of an impact on me. i would always sing it at the beginning of one of my classes, then i made a mistake, and all the lyrics somehow managed to fit.
question- the line about two dimes..... do you take the position that this means
A- two dimes are not enough money- comes up short
B- two dimes could get a phone call a few years ago!
it could be a metaphor meaning dimes=love. and it's basically saying that love used to mean everything to everybody but now it's seems to be worth nothing? idk.
it could be a metaphor meaning dimes=love. and it's basically saying that love used to mean everything to everybody but now it's seems to be worth nothing? idk.
I interpret this song to be about a guy struggling in a relationship with a girlfriend. He is heartbroken.
"Shotgun fire…" could this be a starter pistol meaning GO! "Anybody home" anybody home?? "I got two dimes in the telephone" he is making a fone call to his girlfriend. "Alright… It’s not easy tonight" He's feeling sorrow and heartache tonight.
"She’s In." She is at home.
I'm not sure if the girlfriend suicide interpretation is correct but it does sound on the right track. But still this is a very good song with many messages that one must dig deep for. Keep replying.
My ex-girlfriend used to love this song. I can remember hearing this song on repeat during the times I used to be a teenager and was preparing for my A/L examination. Fell in love with the raw emotions channelled by the singer through his highly emotional voice and the music was also spot on. I always wondered whether the song was all about a girl who committed suicide or was there something deeper than just that.
Here's my misinterpretation or interpretation of the song.
My initial thoughts were that the girl and the guy fell in love with each other and eventually their relationship fell apart due to mutual differences. Both of them tried to get along with their own lives, until either the girl committed suicide or got killed by someone. Due to these events, the guy blamed himself for not being able to sabe her life, got depressed and wanders aimlessly like a vagabond, without a proper source of income, hence not being able to afford 2 dimes to make a telephone call. He cannot get used to the fact that she's dead so, he still tries to call her in the middle of the night hoping that she's going to pickup the phone. When he fails to contact her, he then goes to where she used to live, an empty apartment building; probably everyone was evicted due to the dilapidated condition of the building, or he is also dead and cannot interact with the people living there and only can see stuff that he has associated with his memory while he was still alive.
The girl is described as sharp, a synonym for someone with a higher intelligence, successful or being witty. She is also described as dark, a synonym for either inherent selfishness or melancholia. I would like to go with the aspect of melancholia, because the singer sings that she was dark as the night, meaning she was massively depressed even at the times of their relationship and was melancholic in her behaviour. Their relationship was probably the only thing worthwhile she has had in her life to keep holding into dear life, but after the breakup she got depressed to a level that she decided to commit suicide.
Maybe the guy also decided to follow her footsteps because he cannot get rid of the feeling that he has to do something with her suicide and finally kills himself. His ghost is wandering the earth trying to find her but cannot, as per his own words, he cannot meet her in heaven and don't know how to find her and doesn't know what is going to happen to him in the afterlife, whether he is going to the hell because he committed suicide (as per religious beliefs) or condemned to wander the earth until he let go of the desire to be with her to ascend to his afterlife.
Either way, I have decided to become a singer songwriter at the age of 33, without any previous experience nor fundamental knowledge in music, because I overheard this song yesterday on TV and it brought back memories about the times that I used to be free of social obligations and my premature rockstar fantasies. Thanks guys