Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
When the heat of light
Melts into the speeding time
When the king returns
From the ivory cityside
Let the magnet mages wave the signals
Flashing oh so fast
Then you'll meet me there
Under the moonshine
In a lover's heaven
We keep our promises at last
In a lover's heaven
We forget the past
Do you want to dance with me
Through one of those lonely nights?
It's more than a dream, maybe
We're reaching the gardens of delight
Do you want to dance with me
Through one of those lonely nights?
It's more than a dream, maybe
We're drowning in empires of delight
In the stardust dawn
Underneath the crystal roofs
Where the solar boys are playing games
They never lose
Where the sailors
Are swaying through the light domes
Shining in the sky
There you'll meet me
Darling, anyway
In a lover's heaven
We keep our promises at last
In a lover's heaven
We forgive the past
Do you want to dance with me
Through one of those lonely nights?
It's more than a dream, maybe
We're reaching the gardens of delight
Do you want to dance with me
Through one of those lonely nights?
Ooh, lonely nights
It feels like a dream
Do you want to dance with me?
Do you want to dance with me?
Do you want to dance with me?
Melts into the speeding time
When the king returns
From the ivory cityside
Let the magnet mages wave the signals
Flashing oh so fast
Then you'll meet me there
Under the moonshine
In a lover's heaven
We keep our promises at last
In a lover's heaven
We forget the past
Do you want to dance with me
Through one of those lonely nights?
It's more than a dream, maybe
We're reaching the gardens of delight
Do you want to dance with me
Through one of those lonely nights?
It's more than a dream, maybe
We're drowning in empires of delight
In the stardust dawn
Underneath the crystal roofs
Where the solar boys are playing games
They never lose
Where the sailors
Are swaying through the light domes
Shining in the sky
There you'll meet me
Darling, anyway
In a lover's heaven
We keep our promises at last
In a lover's heaven
We forgive the past
Do you want to dance with me
Through one of those lonely nights?
It's more than a dream, maybe
We're reaching the gardens of delight
Do you want to dance with me
Through one of those lonely nights?
Ooh, lonely nights
It feels like a dream
Do you want to dance with me?
Do you want to dance with me?
Do you want to dance with me?
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He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
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The way this song speaks to me🥺🥺when I sing it I feel like I relate
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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.
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Be careful! Don't listen to this song, you may get depressed if you go to a disco of current music, thanks God to send Marian Gold as a prophet, the light over the shit. The chorus has many interpretations, maybe evasion with the hedonistic style of the 80s.