Let's Go Out Tonight Lyrics

Lyric discussion by nycuk 

Cover art for Let's Go Out Tonight lyrics by Blue Nile, The

This beautiful fragile song outlines the desperation of a failing relationship, in my interpretation. The protagonist is clinging onto a situation that he knows is doomed (‘pray for me…’) and hopes that taking his partner out into downtown lights of Glasgow will rekindle something (maybe that’s where they met?), although he realises that it probably won’t.