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"
Summer, it turns me upside down
Summer, summer, summer
It's like a merry-go-round
I see you under the midnight
All shackles and bows
The high shoes with the cleats a-clickin'
A temperamental glow
Oh, don't you let me go
Oh, got a hold on you
I've got a hold on you
I've got a hold on you tonight
Oh, I got a hold on you
I got a hold on you (I got a hold on you)
That's right
(Uh oh, it's magic)
When I'm with you
(Oh, it's magic)
(Uh oh, it's magic)
Just a little magic
You know it's true
I got a hold on you
Oh, twisted
Under, sideways, down
I know you're getting twisted
And you can't calm down
I see you under the midnight
Love darts in your eyes
How far can you take it?
'Til you realize
There's magic in your eyes
I got a hold on you
Got a hold on you
I got a hold on you tonight
I got a hold on you
Got a hold on you
(I got a hold on you)
Yeah, oh, yeah, oh
(Uh oh, it's magic)
Uh oh, when I'm with you
(Oh, it's magic)
(Uh oh, it's magic)
Just a little bit of magic
Pulls me through
I've got a hold on you
I've got a hold on you
I got a hold on you
(I got a hold on you)
That's right, it's magic
(Uh oh, it's magic)
Uh oh, it's magic
When I'm with you
(Oh, it's magic)
Uh oh
(Uh oh, it's magic)
Just a little magic
Inside of you
(Uh oh, it's magic)
Takes a little bit of magic
That's true
When I'm with you
(Uh oh, it's magic)
(Gotta be magic)
Your magic pulls me through
Oh, it's magic
(Uh oh, it's magic)
Summer, summer, summer
It's like a merry-go-round
I see you under the midnight
All shackles and bows
The high shoes with the cleats a-clickin'
A temperamental glow
Oh, don't you let me go
Oh, got a hold on you
I've got a hold on you
I've got a hold on you tonight
Oh, I got a hold on you
I got a hold on you (I got a hold on you)
That's right
(Uh oh, it's magic)
When I'm with you
(Oh, it's magic)
(Uh oh, it's magic)
Just a little magic
You know it's true
I got a hold on you
Oh, twisted
Under, sideways, down
I know you're getting twisted
And you can't calm down
I see you under the midnight
Love darts in your eyes
How far can you take it?
'Til you realize
There's magic in your eyes
I got a hold on you
Got a hold on you
I got a hold on you tonight
I got a hold on you
Got a hold on you
(I got a hold on you)
Yeah, oh, yeah, oh
(Uh oh, it's magic)
Uh oh, when I'm with you
(Oh, it's magic)
(Uh oh, it's magic)
Just a little bit of magic
Pulls me through
I've got a hold on you
I've got a hold on you
I got a hold on you
(I got a hold on you)
That's right, it's magic
(Uh oh, it's magic)
Uh oh, it's magic
When I'm with you
(Oh, it's magic)
Uh oh
(Uh oh, it's magic)
Just a little magic
Inside of you
(Uh oh, it's magic)
Takes a little bit of magic
That's true
When I'm with you
(Uh oh, it's magic)
(Gotta be magic)
Your magic pulls me through
Oh, it's magic
(Uh oh, it's magic)
Lyrics submitted by magicnudiesuit
Magic Lyrics as written by Ric Ocasek
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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My favorite cars song hands down, the meaning of this song is very clear. It is about being in crazy mad love with someone and everything you do is magic. But it doesn't last forever and summer comes again and turns us upside down. great song
I like to listen to this song, "Saints" by the Breeders, and "Summer's Gone" by the Kinks. Makes for an interesting triptyche.
I cannot help but dance when I listen to this song! It's so upbeat!! It's almost like magic. :P
i love this song... it's so amazingly catchy and the emotion and desperation of it captures the excitment and magic of love well :D
It says "Summer" better than just about any song in creation
So under-rated as many songs are these days
"It says "Summer" better than just about any song in creation" well put, its also an ill song