Beautiful lyrics and a haunting melody which are sung so wistful by Michael.
Verse 1 & 2 eloquently convey the pull of the big city (New York) and the urge to get out and experience it (at night).
Verse 3 is about finding and making contact with a girl, a stranger, who likes the way he stares at her. The "electric eyes" are streetlights.
Verse 4 is about the next morning when he touches the shoulder of a girl, evidently in his bed. His thoughts, however, are of the street again, and the desire/quest for another girl.
The chorus verse "why, why does does do me that way" is actually sung by the girlfiriend or wife of the man he left behind, but who likes "Livin' this way" and "Lovin' this way.
So it's a song about a man who goes out at night in an unfamiliar city to find a girl, leaving behind his girlfriend or wife who laments "why, why does he do me that way."
Beautiful lyrics and a haunting melody which are sung so wistful by Michael.
Verse 1 & 2 eloquently convey the pull of the big city (New York) and the urge to get out and experience it (at night).
Verse 3 is about finding and making contact with a girl, a stranger, who likes the way he stares at her. The "electric eyes" are streetlights.
Verse 4 is about the next morning when he touches the shoulder of a girl, evidently in his bed. His thoughts, however, are of the street again, and the desire/quest for another girl.
The chorus verse "why, why does does do me that way" is actually sung by the girlfiriend or wife of the man he left behind, but who likes "Livin' this way" and "Lovin' this way.
So it's a song about a man who goes out at night in an unfamiliar city to find a girl, leaving behind his girlfriend or wife who laments "why, why does he do me that way."