This is about someone that was in a relationship but it has ended. There's a new person in the picture but he wants this person to know up front that they are number 2. "Everytime I look at you, you'll be who I want you to" he's using number 2 to fill a void. Number 2 will never hold the place in his heart that number 1 does but he's gonna try and do what he can do "to make a dream or two, come true."
It sounds like a sweet song that you would want to have dedicated to you, and it is one of my favorite songs, but when you break it down, it really is a sad song. What's sadder is when you can relate to the song; being somebody's number 2, knowing that you will never be number 1 in their heart and accepting it because you'd rather be number 2 than nothing at all. For those of us who have been there, the true meaning of this song is brutally obvious.
This is about someone that was in a relationship but it has ended. There's a new person in the picture but he wants this person to know up front that they are number 2. "Everytime I look at you, you'll be who I want you to" he's using number 2 to fill a void. Number 2 will never hold the place in his heart that number 1 does but he's gonna try and do what he can do "to make a dream or two, come true."
It sounds like a sweet song that you would want to have dedicated to you, and it is one of my favorite songs, but when you break it down, it really is a sad song. What's sadder is when you can relate to the song; being somebody's number 2, knowing that you will never be number 1 in their heart and accepting it because you'd rather be number 2 than nothing at all. For those of us who have been there, the true meaning of this song is brutally obvious.
This is spot on. Joe Jackson wrote a lot of "sort of love songs".
This is spot on. Joe Jackson wrote a lot of "sort of love songs".