Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Ooh-ooh
Whoa-whoa, whoa-whoa
There's 52 ways to murder anyone
One and two are the same
And they both work as well
I'm coming clean for Amy
Julie doesn't scream as well
And the cops won't listen all night
And so maybe (maybe) I'll be over
Just as soon as I fill them all in
And I can remember when I saw her last
We were running all around and having a blast, having a blast
But the backseat of the drive-in is so lonely without you
I know when you're home
I was thinking about you
There was something I forgot to say
I was crying on Saturday night
I was out cruising without you
They were playing our song
Crying on Saturday night
As the moon becomes the night time
You go viciously, quietly away
I'm sitting in the bedroom
Where we used to sit and smoke cigarettes
Now I'm watching
Watching you die, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
I can remember when I saw her last
We were running all around and having a blast
But the backseat (backseat)
Of the drive-in (of the drive-in) is so lonely without you
I know when you're home
I was thinking about you
There was something I forgot to say
I was crying on Saturday night
I was out cruising without you
They were playing our song
Crying on Saturday night
Yeah, crying on Saturday night
Crying on Saturday night
Whoa-whoa, whoa-whoa
There's 52 ways to murder anyone
One and two are the same
And they both work as well
I'm coming clean for Amy
Julie doesn't scream as well
And the cops won't listen all night
And so maybe (maybe) I'll be over
Just as soon as I fill them all in
And I can remember when I saw her last
We were running all around and having a blast, having a blast
But the backseat of the drive-in is so lonely without you
I know when you're home
I was thinking about you
There was something I forgot to say
I was crying on Saturday night
I was out cruising without you
They were playing our song
Crying on Saturday night
As the moon becomes the night time
You go viciously, quietly away
I'm sitting in the bedroom
Where we used to sit and smoke cigarettes
Now I'm watching
Watching you die, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
I can remember when I saw her last
We were running all around and having a blast
But the backseat (backseat)
Of the drive-in (of the drive-in) is so lonely without you
I know when you're home
I was thinking about you
There was something I forgot to say
I was crying on Saturday night
I was out cruising without you
They were playing our song
Crying on Saturday night
Yeah, crying on Saturday night
Crying on Saturday night
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Everybody reads the lyrics and thinks it’s about murder. …just because he says 52 ways to murder anyone. It’s not a physical murder., it’s that he feels like he has been murdering somebody psychologically. However…there are 52 Saturday’s in a year. This is not a song about murder…it’s about cheating. Every Saturday night he has been with another woman….Julie. (Julie doesn’t scream as well isn’ t about killing….it’s about sex) He’s coming clean with the lyrics/confession.
He is cheating on his dying wife Amy. She is dying, and he hasn’t been able to face this, and was trying to re-live some of their youthful moments by ignoring the present situation with his wife and finding solace in the arms of a younger woman. Once this brings him to remember his youthful courtship with his wife, he is forced to face the present fact.
When he says the cops won’t listen……do you really think the cops wouldn’t listen to a murder confession if it was serious??? The ‘cops’ he is referring to is him talking about the authoritive figures in his life…ie, her parent’s or his., who can’t cope with this admission…hence, they won’t listen. Right or wrong., this is a song about guilt. Plain and simple….he is feeling the guilt and missing his relationship that he experienced before his wife was dying.