This is about a night spent together between a man and a woman. It starts with the man standing outside the woman's (Eleanor's) door, and he can feel this fever and her presence on the other side of the door. The fever is likely that feeling of sexual tension or overwhelming lust that heats one's body. The door could be a metaphor for the obstacle of tension between you and this person you're with, in which you're both trying to figure out whether the other person wants you and what to do next to move things along. He says, "Don't bring tomorrow to justify tonight." Clearly, he doesn't want this night to end. He wants time to slow so that he can stay with this woman longer. But what would tomorrow need to "justify?" Is what he's hoping will happen something he considers wrong or sinful? Is it simply fornication, or is it adultery?
She wants him to sip his tequila to give her more time for the spring that is this sexual tension to unwind, but she says she also wants to unlearn what she's learned. What has she learned that she wants to unlearn? Is she referring to what she was taught about fornication being wrong and sinful, or has he told her that he's married, and she wants to forget that she heard that so that she can proceed without guilt?
They knew that the next morning would find them naked prey to a world filled with poison and hate. So what is that poison and hate? Guilt and shame and self-loathing, perhaps?
Once the lust overcomes them, they lose control, and they feel like they are outside of time and space.
She feels this sense of oneness with him as if she has always known him and feels like she's in love with him, but maybe it's just that feeling of intimacy that she's hooked on because it's something lacking from her life. She asks him not to leave, and he answers, "Nevermore." Here Jeanette gives a nod to Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven, which is about a lover (Lenore - similar in name to the Eleanor in this song) who has either died or left him in some other way that feels permanent, leaving him in the agony of heartbreak. In that poem, he is told by the raven that he will see his love "nevermore." So what does the man in this song mean when he says "nevermore?" Is he saying he'll never leave, or is he saying he'll never see her again? All we can do is guess.
This is about a night spent together between a man and a woman. It starts with the man standing outside the woman's (Eleanor's) door, and he can feel this fever and her presence on the other side of the door. The fever is likely that feeling of sexual tension or overwhelming lust that heats one's body. The door could be a metaphor for the obstacle of tension between you and this person you're with, in which you're both trying to figure out whether the other person wants you and what to do next to move things along. He says, "Don't bring tomorrow to justify tonight." Clearly, he doesn't want this night to end. He wants time to slow so that he can stay with this woman longer. But what would tomorrow need to "justify?" Is what he's hoping will happen something he considers wrong or sinful? Is it simply fornication, or is it adultery?
She wants him to sip his tequila to give her more time for the spring that is this sexual tension to unwind, but she says she also wants to unlearn what she's learned. What has she learned that she wants to unlearn? Is she referring to what she was taught about fornication being wrong and sinful, or has he told her that he's married, and she wants to forget that she heard that so that she can proceed without guilt?
They knew that the next morning would find them naked prey to a world filled with poison and hate. So what is that poison and hate? Guilt and shame and self-loathing, perhaps?
Once the lust overcomes them, they lose control, and they feel like they are outside of time and space.
She feels this sense of oneness with him as if she has always known him and feels like she's in love with him, but maybe it's just that feeling of intimacy that she's hooked on because it's something lacking from her life. She asks him not to leave, and he answers, "Nevermore." Here Jeanette gives a nod to Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven, which is about a lover (Lenore - similar in name to the Eleanor in this song) who has either died or left him in some other way that feels permanent, leaving him in the agony of heartbreak. In that poem, he is told by the raven that he will see his love "nevermore." So what does the man in this song mean when he says "nevermore?" Is he saying he'll never leave, or is he saying he'll never see her again? All we can do is guess.
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