This song, according to "Behind the Hits" by Bob Shannon & John Javna is NOT about a stalker.
It's about a man whose feelings of love aren't returned in kind. The first line, "Imagine me and you, I do" makes most of the song a wish of the narrator. He then goes on about how wonderful things would be IF they were together.
At the end, the odd line, "...how is the weather?" is sung with a slight crack in the voice, because, even after his pleas (with background vocals AND horns to boot!), the object of his affection is STILL not moved, so he is breaking into tears over having lost again, so he tries to change the subject over to something innocuous, like the weather.
As for the instrumentation, it's rather clever. The first few lines are sung with minor or sad chords, but the lines that begin with, "I can't see me lovin' nobody but you..." have major or "happy" chords, which suggest to me that his hopes go up as he goes further into his fantasy. The last few chords are minor, save the last chord, which is major, so if I may take a bit of liberty here, it suggests to he's lost again, but he hasn't given up hope.
So, I don't find it any creepier than, say, "What a Fool Believes" by the Doobie Brothers, which is this song's less-subtle cousin. When I heard this explanation, it put a nice sad, subtext to a great song.
This song, according to "Behind the Hits" by Bob Shannon & John Javna is NOT about a stalker.
It's about a man whose feelings of love aren't returned in kind. The first line, "Imagine me and you, I do" makes most of the song a wish of the narrator. He then goes on about how wonderful things would be IF they were together.
At the end, the odd line, "...how is the weather?" is sung with a slight crack in the voice, because, even after his pleas (with background vocals AND horns to boot!), the object of his affection is STILL not moved, so he is breaking into tears over having lost again, so he tries to change the subject over to something innocuous, like the weather.
As for the instrumentation, it's rather clever. The first few lines are sung with minor or sad chords, but the lines that begin with, "I can't see me lovin' nobody but you..." have major or "happy" chords, which suggest to me that his hopes go up as he goes further into his fantasy. The last few chords are minor, save the last chord, which is major, so if I may take a bit of liberty here, it suggests to he's lost again, but he hasn't given up hope.
So, I don't find it any creepier than, say, "What a Fool Believes" by the Doobie Brothers, which is this song's less-subtle cousin. When I heard this explanation, it put a nice sad, subtext to a great song.