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Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven Lyrics
Love is forever - as I lie awake
Beside you
I believed - there's no heaven
No hideaway - for the lonely
But I was wrong - crazy
It's gotta be strong
It's gotta be right
Only wanted to stay a while
Only wanted to play a while
Then you taught me to fly like a bird
Baby - thought I'd died and gone to heaven
Such a night I never had before
Thought I'd died and gone to heaven
Cause what I got there ain't no cure for
Ooo it's so easy
What you do to me all night angel
I never loved - I swear to God
Never needed no one, 'til you came along
Here I come baby
It's gotta be strong - it's gotta be right
Only wanted to stay awhile
Only wanted to play awhile
Then you taught me to fly like a bird
Baby - thought I'd died and gone to heaven
Such a night I never had before
Thought I'd died and gone to heaven
Cause what I got there ain't no cure for
I feel fast asleep - I feel drunk
I dream the sweetest dreams
Never wanna wake up
Never thought it could be this way
No doubt about it - can't live without it
Never thought it could be this good
You made love to me - the way it oughta be
Beside you
I believed - there's no heaven
No hideaway - for the lonely
It's gotta be strong
It's gotta be right
Only wanted to play a while
Then you taught me to fly like a bird
Such a night I never had before
Thought I'd died and gone to heaven
Cause what I got there ain't no cure for
What you do to me all night angel
I never loved - I swear to God
Never needed no one, 'til you came along
It's gotta be strong - it's gotta be right
Only wanted to stay awhile
Only wanted to play awhile
Then you taught me to fly like a bird
Such a night I never had before
Thought I'd died and gone to heaven
Cause what I got there ain't no cure for
I dream the sweetest dreams
Never wanna wake up
No doubt about it - can't live without it
Never thought it could be this good
You made love to me - the way it oughta be
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I can't believe I'm the only person who has commented on the great song. It's such a love song. If I were a woman, I would drop my skirt for any man who played this song for me.
Seriously, there is some talent here. The meaning seems pretty ovbious.
Deep song full of love
This song is not really about love at its core. Bryan Adams is an incredible writer and can take many themes and bring them together cohesively. You need to take a look at what happened before the release of this album. Im from Canada and so I have followed his career pretty closely.
Brian was working on what would be waking up the neighbors, with producer steve liliwhite...of U2 fame. It was so bad, that he ended up firing him.
Shortly after that, he met Mutt Lange, of Def Leppard /AcDc fame. I listened to an interview with Brian who said that, the first time they got together at Mutt Langs house, it was like magic. They literally finished and wrote three or four songs in a day. Mutt Lange, litterly gave Brian the big sound he needed to move to the next level. He already had 6 albums or so under his belt, but he hadnt broke through in the US. Hense the title of the album. As Canadians, we have always seen the US as this big bright light behind a fence so to speak.
Have a read over the lyrics now and you will see that all this makes sense. I would be interested in hearing anyone elses comments on what I wrote here.
I know that the artist probably did not mean exactly this, but I relate well to the lyrics. The first verse reminds me of my ex husband. I was 4 months pregnant when I found out he’d been sleeping with someone else and I literally was laying in bed next to him wondering what to do (love is forever), feeling lonely. I left him and was determined not to have another ‘deep’ relationship and had a number of more casual relationships until I met this one guy. We had only known each other a few days but one night he came over for dinner and we had a bottle of wine and ended up in bed together, which at the time I just thought was a casual thing (only wanted to stay a while, only wanted to play a while) but the experience was unlike anything I’d experienced before, it was just really intense. I realised I was falling in love and that I’d actually never felt that intense feeling for my ex even though we had been married. This relationship just felt ‘right and strong’ I’m still with him after 12 years and I still feel intense love like I’ve never felt for another lover.