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"
I see time moving all around me
I wish that I could take the time to go and find me
Cause I know that you're the one for me
But I know I'm no good for you
Cause I see time moving all around me
I feel like these loose cigarettes and black olives
Just might be the death of me
Now I'm just being honest
Expectations heavy I can feel them on my shoulders
Momma, I'm so tired
Help me til the morning
I feel like the sunrise never gon' recharge me well
Like this my seed I plant it for the world to sell
Embrace it like it's show and tell
Embrace it like it's show and tell
Yeah, embrace it like it's show and tell before it's gone
Yeah, embrace it like it's show and tell before it's gone
I see time moving all around me
I wish that I could take a chance to go and find me
I wish that I could take the time to go and find me
Cause I know that you're the one for me
But I know I'm no good for you
Cause I see time moving all around me
I feel like these loose cigarettes and black olives
Just might be the death of me
Now I'm just being honest
Expectations heavy I can feel them on my shoulders
Momma, I'm so tired
Help me til the morning
I feel like the sunrise never gon' recharge me well
Like this my seed I plant it for the world to sell
Embrace it like it's show and tell
Embrace it like it's show and tell
Yeah, embrace it like it's show and tell before it's gone
Yeah, embrace it like it's show and tell before it's gone
I see time moving all around me
I wish that I could take a chance to go and find me
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Wahey, first one to comment on Duran Duran's comeback song! I love this song. I liked their earlier stuff but if you listen carefully, it's like they've brought back the sound of the 80's a little bit in this track. They've got the 80's flavour in there with a bit of a modern sophisticated pop sound to go with it. Simon Le Bon's voice is still great and Duran Duran are back! What more can we ask for?
This song is no doubt about the rebirth of Duran Duran, the original five. But also, Simon always claimed that music comes in cycles (maybe it was Nick too). From what they've said, I got the feeling that the eighties was a bright time for them, then it got gloomy but now they're back and having fun again.
Duran Duran rocks my face off. This is a great song to wake up to. It has a feel like they are shedding an old skin and becoming more fresh and vibrant than ever. Long live DD!
we need bands like this these new people are just big loads of shit
This song is great! I bought the single today. Yeah, it does have an 80s vibe to it.
Becareful, Justin Timberlake, Nick Carter, Ashlee Simpson, Britney and all of you, Pop Trash (he he got it?) DURAN DURAN IS BACK!!!!
Duran Duran are back on the scene!
Wow, an excellent song!! and listening to it live is incredible!!! it is so positive, full of energy and just to make you feel great...I met the whole band last year and it was just the best!!! DD is back in town!!! and will be for so long!!!
This song is amazing! I used to love DD, but the past recent years, I went off them.
My take is this song was more a morale booster to DD themselves here in the Wendy Laister management era than to their fans. "Get up... you can do it... believe in yourself, do it one more time."
This said, to me this song is emblematic of everything wrong with the Laister Era. The song's an orange juice ad. Not worth of Seven/Ragged Tiger DD at all.