left in the dark lyrics
 

Got that question in my mind for some weeks, maybe you can help me:

I absolutely dont get the Left in the Dark lyrics:
She cheated on him but now shes back.
He feels his pain but now it´s unimportant, he just wants to 'make love'(:eyebrows:)

But why?
Why are the lyrics:

I just need some love (:yep:)
so turn out the light (:yep:)
and I´ll be left in the dark again (:confused:)

why is he left again when she came back and wants to 'make love'

I dont get the sense of that line.....


Any ideas?

Thanks!

Because in the past while she was being unfaithful he was left in the dark ... i.e. he didn't know what was going on. Now she's back he's saying turn out the lights ... so it's a different type of darkness.

really beautiful lyrics

well it's quarter to three, so it's bound to be pretty dark. She was supposed to be there at 7! LOL

lol

Typical woman there.. :-P

exactly!:yep:

ok i had to re-listen to make sure i was right but as with all songs i guess there are a few interpretations, but for what its worth heres mine.
He knows she's cheating, he wants to know the details but not right now.
with the light on he has reminders of her betrayal told in the following lines:
"i bet you still got a trace of his love in your eyes"
"i see the look in your eyes and i got the proof"
"there are more lies on your body"

these visuals constantly remind him so he wants to turn off the light and be "left in the dark again" so he can pretend he still doesn't know.
Not sure this makes sense but i know what i mean! :lol:

There's an interesting bit on the net about this song here:
http://solidrock.dk/steinman/leftinthedark.php

isnt he singing "no lies" not "more lies"?:confused:

I´d go with Mr King´s explanation....but the 'again' speaks against it......

Yup it's definitly "and there are no lies on your body so take off your dress".

What's so difficult to understand about "again" young Padawan?
I simply assume that this is all about a guy singing to a woman who has just come home from cheating on him (at least that's what he thinks/believes). Obviously this woman means everything to him and before he met her he was in the dark (ie she was/is the light in his life), now he could be in the dark again as he releases she wants something she couldn't get from him. Makes pretty much sense to me.

Really a good review! Thanks!

but there´s still the point of the again, which i dont get

But the problem which I see, or the point I dont get is the following:

He is ready to make love, and according to his again, THIS is what will leave him in the dark.

so he´s left in the dark when the lights are turned off and they make love.
BUT
the again says to me that there has been something comparable to that before.
He was left in the dark before....
left in the dark = bad feeling, alone, sad, cheated
left in the dark again = the lights are off and they make love
which is, emotionally seen, the complete difference....

see my point now...:sherlock:

but he still feels the first definition of in the dark = bad feeling, alone , cheated so i guess it is again

:twisted: 7:00 - 2:45

That's only 7 hours and 45 minutes in bed.

I don't know :roll:

Some people have no staying power :mrgreen:

:lmao:

:twisted: OK, my run down on what the song means.

The most importaint thing is what is meant be the term "left in the dark".

Do you take it literally (it's dark) or the more common metephrical meaning, that you are ignorant/without information on a particular subject.

I got with the metophore.

There's this dude (technical term there :mrgreen: ) and he's with a complete slapper (another tech term).

She fools around on him, and he knows it, but he has no proof of it.

It's more like instinct.

However, he tries to believe her alibies, and he himself makes up excuses why she doesn't turn up sometimes.

He is fooling himself as much as she is.

Now when she comes home, he wants her to make love to him.

This will make him "feel" loved, and it will reashure him that the suspicion (or knowledge) of her infidelity is all in his mind, and he will be "left in the dark again".

He will once more convice himself that she is not being unfathful.

She will turn off the light, they will make love, he'll believe she loves him, and he will be in the dark again.

so you say the fact that she makes love to him is a proof of his stupidity?:sherlock:

how about that:
He wants a proof for that she still loves him, but she will only make love to him because she knows that he wants/needs that proof. And the FACT that she does it, is the proof of her cheating and guilty conscience for what she´d done and with that proof he KNOWS that he´s left in the dark....again.
huh?

:twisted: But who is to say WHY she is making love to him?

Is she making love to him because she has a guilty concience, or is she making love to him because she loves him?

Does she EVEN make love to him?

The songs stops before they get that far :wink: .

The possibility that he is wrong about what's going on is the thing that allows him to keep himself in the dark.

He has an instinct what is going on.He knows it.But he's never been told it, and he's never seen her cheat.

Without that evidence, he can still deny what is going on.


Now don't forget that (as far as I take the song), this song is never sang to her.

These are things the guy WANTS to say.

But how can he say that without any proof.

And we wouldn't even want the proof anyway because he'd no longer be able to fool himself.

or maybe their both just horny..:twisted:

:shock:

:lmao:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So after all that discussion which gave me a headache reading it, you decide they're just horny?!:shock:

Yeah that's indeed a funny conclusion in the end, no?

:twisted: Well if he doesn't understand it now, he never will :wink:

:lol:
And theres me thinking RJ wanted a deep and meaningful answer. :doh: i should've just thought like a guy :lol:

you should....you should

*wise look*