Lyrically, this song doesn’t have any kind of logically cohesive meaning. It reads like something a 13-year-old who speaks English as a second language would’ve written. Each verse has very little to do with the other verses in the song. It does not tell a story or even offer any kind of coherent progression of thought in terms of expressing a romantic idea or philosophical observation or musing on some kind of overarching theme. It just jumps from one random thought to another, put to music and broken up with the nonsensical chorus “say you, say me, say it together naturally” which makes no grammatical sense. If it wasn’t for Lionel Richie‘s memorable vocal stylings, a hummable melody and that catchy bridge that beaks into a brief rock groove, and the fact it was used a the featured song in a hit movie, I wonder if anyone would’ve ever cared about this song. But there are plenty of examples of great hit songs that don’t really have any discernible meaning in the lyrics. Plenty of songs have charted based solely on the artist’s performance and a catchy hook.
Lyrically, this song doesn’t have any kind of logically cohesive meaning. It reads like something a 13-year-old who speaks English as a second language would’ve written. Each verse has very little to do with the other verses in the song. It does not tell a story or even offer any kind of coherent progression of thought in terms of expressing a romantic idea or philosophical observation or musing on some kind of overarching theme. It just jumps from one random thought to another, put to music and broken up with the nonsensical chorus “say you, say me, say it together naturally” which makes no grammatical sense. If it wasn’t for Lionel Richie‘s memorable vocal stylings, a hummable melody and that catchy bridge that beaks into a brief rock groove, and the fact it was used a the featured song in a hit movie, I wonder if anyone would’ve ever cared about this song. But there are plenty of examples of great hit songs that don’t really have any discernible meaning in the lyrics. Plenty of songs have charted based solely on the artist’s performance and a catchy hook.