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"
Dancin' where the stars go blue
Dancin' where the evening fell
Dancin' in my wooden shoes
In a wedding gown
Dancin' out on 7th street
Dancin' through the underground
Dancin' little marionette
Are you happy now?
Where do you go when you're lonely
Where do you go when you're blue
Where do you go when you're lonely, I'll follow you
When the stars go blue
When the stars go blue
Blue
Laughing with your pretty mouth (Laughing with your pretty mouth)
Laughing with your broken eyes (Laughing with your broken eyes)
Laughing with your lover's song
In a lullaby
Where do you go when you're lonely
Where do you go when you're blue
Where do you go when you're lonely, I'll follow you
Where do you go when you're lonely
Where do you go where you're blue
Where do you go when you're lonely I'll follow you
Follow you
Yeah yeah, when the stars go blue
When the stars go blue
When the stars go blue
When the stars go blue
Where do you go when you're lonely
Where do you go when the stars go blue
Dancin' where the evening fell
Dancin' in my wooden shoes
In a wedding gown
Dancin' out on 7th street
Dancin' through the underground
Dancin' little marionette
Are you happy now?
Where do you go when you're lonely
Where do you go when you're blue
Where do you go when you're lonely, I'll follow you
When the stars go blue
When the stars go blue
Blue
Laughing with your pretty mouth (Laughing with your pretty mouth)
Laughing with your broken eyes (Laughing with your broken eyes)
Laughing with your lover's song
In a lullaby
Where do you go when you're lonely
Where do you go when you're blue
Where do you go when you're lonely, I'll follow you
Where do you go when you're lonely
Where do you go where you're blue
Where do you go when you're lonely I'll follow you
Follow you
Yeah yeah, when the stars go blue
When the stars go blue
When the stars go blue
When the stars go blue
Where do you go when you're lonely
Where do you go when the stars go blue
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ryan adams cover that is beautifully covered by Bethany Joy and Tyler Hilton.
this song makes me sleep. and i am in love with one tree hill.
ryan adams > bethany joy lenz, u2, bono, corrs... and every other group/artist who has made an attempt at a remake of this song. listen not only to the 'gold' version (ryan adams' original album version) but also to some of the live versions off of his 'bedhead' bootlegs and you will become aware of just how conscious he is of the feelings and emotions he intended on conveying through his tonality in the ways he sings.
I've heard a few of the other versions of "When the Stars Go Blue" and this is definitely my favourite. It is definite the perfect song for a duet.
Not entirely sure what it means, but I have my personal ties to it!
"Where do you go when you're lonely, I'll follow you"
Sounds like it's a song about being there for each other, no matter how things are.
Out of the several covers of this song, I do believe this is one of the better ones. It just seems to naturally fit being a duet.
i love this song. it's on my iPod and i listen to it over and over again. it's amazing. this is one of my favorite versions.
To be honest, this song has become extremely old and overplayed.
I love it though. I think Joy and Tyler's version is the best cover. Definitely better than Tim McGraw.
i don't know, i like the notes for the tim mcgraw version, but i like the energy better in this one. but i don't like it so much as a duet. they made it work, but i wouldn't have done it that way, given the choice.
i think joy and hilton covered it perfectly. not a song i would think works as a duet, but with them it is perfect. props to one tree hill.
I agree, Bethany and Tyler's cover is the best cover. This was a perfect duet.