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"
Dial up my number now
Weaving it through the wire
Switch me on, turn me up
Don't want it Baudelaire
Just glitter lust
Switch me on, turn me up
I want to touch you you're just
Made for love
I need la la la la la
I need ooo la la la la
Calls up and round me
Teasing your poetry
Switch me on, turn me up
Oh child of Venus you're just
Made for love
You know I walk for days
I wanna waste some time
You wanna be so mean
You know I love to watch
I wanna love some more
I'll never be the same
A broken heel like a heart
I'll never walk again
Weaving it through the wire
Switch me on, turn me up
Don't want it Baudelaire
Just glitter lust
Switch me on, turn me up
I want to touch you you're just
Made for love
I need la la la la la
I need ooo la la la la
Calls up and round me
Teasing your poetry
Switch me on, turn me up
Oh child of Venus you're just
Made for love
You know I walk for days
I wanna waste some time
You wanna be so mean
You know I love to watch
I wanna love some more
I'll never be the same
A broken heel like a heart
I'll never walk again
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"I don't want it Baudelaire, just glitter lust." Says it all, she doesn't want poetic love making, she wants animalistic, materialistic, and impartial rutting
Booty call imo.
Does anyone else get the feeling this is about a vibrator?
"Turn me on, turn me up." -- Quite obvious.
"I want to touch you, you're just made for love." --VIBRATOR.
This song is TOTALLY about a vibrator. Only a few lines don't fit perfectly.
Dial up my number now Weaving it through the wire -I originally figured this was a phone number, but things besides phones have numbers and dials and wires.
Switch me on, turn me up -No interpretation necessary
Don't want it baudelaire Just glitter lust Switch me on, turn me up I want to touch you you're just Made for love -Another easy interpretation, the last three lines.
I need la la la la la I need ooo la la la la Calls up and round me Teasing your poetry Switch me on, turn me up Oh child of venus you're just Made for love You know I walk for days I wanna waste some time -Loses me for a bit in the middle, but the vibrator thing is back with "I wanna waste some time"
You wanna be so mean You know I love to watch -Watching some materials? Even the mean line fits pretty well.
I wanna love some more I'll never be the same A broken heel like a heart I'll never walk again -From the sound of these lines, it worked.
Like a lot of Goldfrapp this needs to be heard because what she manages to do with the sounds of the words is extraordinary and extraordinarily sexy.
All the glitter shoegaze glamy attitude from Goldfrapp is amazing.
This song is completely lust.
Goldfrapp is great. The voice is very sensual and sexy... And the beat is amazing!
What does this song mean to me? Hmmm.... sexily yummy.... definitely...!!!
Or... is it... yummily sexy??
In this song, her voice sounds a lot alike to that of Marc Bolan from the glam-rock band T. Rex. Weird.