This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
This is where I'll be
So heavenly
So come and dance with me Michael
So sexy, I'm sexy
So come and dance with me Michael
I'm all that you see, you want to see
So come and dance with me Michael
So close now, so close now
So come and dance with me
So come and dance with me
So come and dance with me
Michael you're the boy with all the leather hips
Sticky hair, sticky hips, stubble on my sticky lips
Michael you're the only one I'd ever want
The only one I'd ever want, the only one I ever want
Beautiful boys on a beautiful dance floor
Michael you're dancing like a beautiful dance whore
Michael waiting on a silver platter now
And nothing matters now
This is what I am, I am a man
So come and dance with me Michael
So strong now, it's strong now
So come and dance with me Michael
I'm all that you see, you wanna see
So come and dance with me, Michael
So close now
It's close now
So come and dance with me
So come and dance with me
So come and dance with me
Michael you're the boy with all the leather hips
Sticky hair, sticky hips, stubble on my sticky lips
Michael you're the only one I'd ever want
The only one I'd ever want, the only one I ever want
Beautiful boys on a beautiful dance floor
Michael you're dancing like a beautiful dance whore
Michael waiting on a silver platter now
And nothing matters now
Michael you're the only one I'd ever want
The only one I'd ever want, the only one I ever want
Michael you're the only one I'd ever want
The only one I'd ever want, the only one I ever want
Beautiful boys on a beautiful dance floor
Michael you're dancing like a beautiful dance whore
Michael waiting on a silver platter now
Nothing matters now, nothing matter, nothing matters, oh yeah
So heavenly
So come and dance with me Michael
So sexy, I'm sexy
So come and dance with me Michael
I'm all that you see, you want to see
So come and dance with me Michael
So close now, so close now
So come and dance with me
So come and dance with me
So come and dance with me
Michael you're the boy with all the leather hips
Sticky hair, sticky hips, stubble on my sticky lips
Michael you're the only one I'd ever want
The only one I'd ever want, the only one I ever want
Beautiful boys on a beautiful dance floor
Michael you're dancing like a beautiful dance whore
Michael waiting on a silver platter now
And nothing matters now
This is what I am, I am a man
So come and dance with me Michael
So strong now, it's strong now
So come and dance with me Michael
I'm all that you see, you wanna see
So come and dance with me, Michael
So close now
It's close now
So come and dance with me
So come and dance with me
So come and dance with me
Michael you're the boy with all the leather hips
Sticky hair, sticky hips, stubble on my sticky lips
Michael you're the only one I'd ever want
The only one I'd ever want, the only one I ever want
Beautiful boys on a beautiful dance floor
Michael you're dancing like a beautiful dance whore
Michael waiting on a silver platter now
And nothing matters now
Michael you're the only one I'd ever want
The only one I'd ever want, the only one I ever want
Michael you're the only one I'd ever want
The only one I'd ever want, the only one I ever want
Beautiful boys on a beautiful dance floor
Michael you're dancing like a beautiful dance whore
Michael waiting on a silver platter now
Nothing matters now, nothing matter, nothing matters, oh yeah
Lyrics submitted by _valerie, edited by ActuallyMichae
Michael Lyrics as written by Nicholas John Mccarthy Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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what the hell is wrong with you people?
OMFGZZZZZZZ HEZ LYKE SO TALKINGZ ABOUT THE GAYZNESS. I CAN'T LYSTEN TO IT OMFGSZ. IZZZ IT ONNN MEEEH? GET DE GAYNESS OFF OF MEEEEEEEEEZ!
you guys act like this is the ring on a cd.
LISTEN TO IT AND YOU'LL BE GAY IN 7 DAYS.
what a fucking bunch of pathetic losers.
people all around you are gay.
your cousin could be gay.
your friends at school could be gay.
your dog could be gay.
gay people need love songs too, shut the hell up.
SO TRUE. to me (in an entirely different time) the queerness is a draw.
OMG TEH SONG WILL GIVE ME TEH FAG!!!!!!!1111!?!1
@Kilo If there was a song that could give someone TEH FAG - it's this one.....also maybe Goodbye Horses
WOW. I wish I was insecure enough about my sexuality that a SONG would threaten it. This is a really good song. I thought people were suspose to be open minded these days.
Guess not.
okay im a girl. but i don't see whats wrong with a guy singing about a guy? when a song like "i kissed a girl" is totally alright in the publics eye. if i sing "i kissed a girl" will that make me gay. oh no! No of course that won't. so..just stop.
anyway songmeaning: its about a guy being a attracted to a guy when he is dancing.
I can't like this enough, despite this being from five years ago. I'm a straight woman, but have kissed a girl one or twice in my lifetime and I think that there is nothing wrong with finding the same sex attractive from time to time. It's just a part of life.
@mlfm256 yeah if wouldn't make you gay, it would make you lesbian.
Look, don't get me wrong. I heart vagina. But this song is just really, really good. Honestly, I wish it weren't so difficult NOT to sing along. Funny thing, that one of the best songs on the cd has the most divisive lyrics. Just imagine a girl named Michael. Have you ever met a girl named Michael? No? Well, tell yourself she exists, and she is hell of beautiful.
haha good outlook on it! great way to see it. :p
I laughed so hard at that reply man. Thank you for that. Really~
Mykel and Carli from Weezer, perhaps??
Oh, my friend Michael says this song's about him...right. I read in an article on franzferdinand.org that it's actually about something Alex witnessed. One of his friends got drunk and this friend and Michael...well, you read the song.
i love this song. its very brave of FF to produce a song about homosexuality. i salute them for it salutes thats one of the reasons i like this band so much: they dont have to fit in the modern mold. dont get me wrong, im not one of those people obbsessed with indivudiality, but it is nice to hear something other than the norm once in a while.
Good move you guys, Michael will never threaten your sexuality ever again =)
You ripped the CD minus this one song?!
You're a fag!
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