Where Do You Think You're Going? Lyrics
Don’t you know it’s dark outside?
Where do you think you’re going?
Don’t you care about my pride?
Where do you think you’re going?
I thing you don’t know
You got no way of knowing
There’s really no place you can go
Long before you reach the door
I know where you think you’re going
I know what you came here for
And now I’m sick of jocking
I know I like you to be free
Where do you think you’re going?
I think you better go with me girl
But you still find cause to doubt me
If you ain’t with me girl
You’re gonna be without me
Don’t you know it’s dark outside?
Where do you think you’re going?
Don’t you care about my pride?
And now I’m sick of jocking
I know I like you to be free
Where do you think you’re going?
I think you better go with me girl






The sense of menace in this song is truly terrifying. Sadly, I think all too many women would recognise the man whose fear about his pride combined with brutality make him think he can totally control his woman. He thinks that without him, she'll be nothing, and he tries to make her believe that herself.

For whatever reason, I've thought about this song lately
I've never had a relationship end up like that but even after all these years this song sends chills up my spine.
I'm not perfect and can be a bit of a male chauvinist at times. But I think if the guy in the story had been a little more sensitive and was not thinking so much about his pride all along she'd not be headed to the door...

About a wife/girlfriend leaving him or saving her from future danger.

It is a song about an emotionally abusive and manipulative man in a controlling relationship.

I don't think it's an abusive relationship, necessarily. It's natural, when a relationship is going sour to wonder if you will find something better if you leave. Now the person being left is saying you're taking a risk. I think you should stay with me. A quote that comes to mind here is “Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.” ― Jack Heath, The Lab

I think this is a complicated song.
At first blush it looks like a selfish man who has an abusive streak.
At second look, I think the man is in anguish, and is resorting to things he's never done before (abuse), and is at wits end since he feels she is gone and there is nothing else he could possibly do.
The ending jam does have an upbeat tempo suggesting either a happy ending or the decision to just fantasize positively about the relationship.

A typo made joking—jocking. “And now I’m sick of joking—you know I like you to be free.” In a corny play that angels asked me to do with them, my angel played the dude in this song. This part was a musical proceeded by “Slender Frame”. Cute. “Pack up your things and go. Run down the road, he’ll never know. Pack up your things today and run away.” Followed by the gruff “Where do you think you’re going? Don’t you know it’s dark outside…” The creativity was impressive since this portion of the musical was confined to what my brother had brought with him in music for a weekend up north. The angels put all these songs together—with my help of course—but I wasn’t really familiar with too many of them and then I listened to the compilation and said, oh! You told a story. Very cool. The remainder was “Round and Round”—Frozen Ghost, “Reflex”—Duran Duran, “Part of Your Life”—The Outfield, a fragment of “Rolling Thunder”—A-Ha, “There’s No Point”—The Outfield, “Waiting For Her” and “Crying in the Rain”—A-Ha, “In the Hands of Love”—Dream Academy, “Dum Dum Girl”—Talk Talk, “Romeo and Juliet”—Dire Straits, “Hungry Like the Wolf”—Duran Duran and “Life’s What You Make It”—Talk Talk . Sorry that was so boring …

This is a man who's wife is headed for the door....but they both know that she is too much under his thumb to even put her hand on the doorknob.

If the guy in the song had not killed the relationship with being a self-centered control freak, maybe she wouldn't be leaving...Good lyrics

I like these acoustic songs of DS better then their more prominent hits like Money For Nothing.