left in the dark lyrics - Page 3

AndrewG · 04 Oct 2006, 22:55

Amen Jesus Christ Hallelujah!

**RadioMaster** · 04 Oct 2006, 23:01

k guys....it´s starting to be enough now.

AndrewG · 04 Oct 2006, 23:09

Too much is never enough....

rachelba · 05 Oct 2006, 17:03

You have permission to shoot me down in flames but Meat said once that that the person in the song is actually a woman singing about another woman! Or was he joking!

mszee · 05 Oct 2006, 17:07

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Originally Posted by rachelba

You have permission to shoot me down in flames but Meat said once that that the person in the song is actually a woman singing about another woman! Or was he joking!

No...what he said was...he creates characters for the songs he sings to be able to perform them.

So he imagines character in Left In the Dark as a WOMAN...

Not woman to another woman...

AndrewG · 05 Oct 2006, 21:12

Yeah I heard him say that once also. Obviously the lyrics would indicate two women lovers then, but I guess at the heart of the song it is possible that Jim envisaged a women and just changed the lyrics to suit a male singer.

**RadioMaster** · 05 Oct 2006, 21:17

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Originally Posted by AndrewG

Obviously the lyrics would indicate two women lovers.

what do we all cosmopolitan, understanding, free minded, tolerant people know?

the gender or sexuality is unimportant!*wise look*

wenners · 06 Oct 2006, 01:39

Its all about male insecurities and jealousy

you know she's with someone else, you can imagine what there doing, its tearing you apart. your scared to know what exactly is going on. but you need to know the gory details but the pain is to great, so all you want to do is go to bed make love and for a few moments pretend nothing has happened.

Listen to the Steinman's original version on Bad for Good and listen closely to both the spoken intro and ending as this both sets up and concludes the song perfectly.

mszee · 06 Oct 2006, 01:44

Well...it's the same for women...can go either way...

Pudding · 06 Oct 2006, 04:09

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Originally Posted by mszee

Well...it's the same for women...can go either way...

Listen to the Barbra Streisand version of the song then and see if you agree.

Pud

mszee · 06 Oct 2006, 04:25

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Originally Posted by Pudding

Listen to the Barbra Streisand version of the song then and see if you agree.

Pud

I am not sure I see your point.

My comment was about wenners post. What I said was that women experience EXACTLY the same feelings as he has described for men while discussing lyrics to this song.

I've heard Barbra's version and I don't like it. I believe she might have been able to pull it off but the whole thing was in the wrong for the song key in my opinion, never mind anything else.

I'll take Meat's version any day over it...still doesn't mean that woman can't experience EXACTLY the same emotions as wenners has described for men. AND...Barbra Streisand are not ALL women...and not even an average representative...

Pudding · 06 Oct 2006, 05:20

My point is. This thread is about Left In The Dark and the comments given are for the lyrics from a man's perspective. You say it's the same for women, so..... regardless of Babs' singing or the production, do the lyrical changes in the song reflect a womans point, ould they be the type of things a woman would say or do?

Pud

AndrewG · 06 Oct 2006, 09:09

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Originally Posted by wenners

Listen to the Steinman's original version on Bad for Good and listen closely to both the spoken intro and ending as this both sets up and concludes the song perfectly.

Yeah I never understood that the spoken outro does not appear on my copy of "Bad for Good" instead it does appear on my copy of "Meat Loaf and friends", how bizar is that ?

rachelba · 06 Oct 2006, 10:33

Did Barbara change the words?

(I mean about taking the dress off etc.)

Pudding · 06 Oct 2006, 11:45

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Originally Posted by rachelba

Did Barbara change the words?

(I mean about taking the dress off etc.)

I think these lyrics are close enough to what Babs sang:

Where did she touch you,
How did if feel,
Why did you let it begin
What did she whisper and
What did it mean, and
Where do you think it will end?
How long did it last
Do you think it will stop
Did you get to try anything...new
How good was she - honestly
Where did you go and
Who made the very first move, who made the very first move,
Who made the very first move..
You don't have to sneak in the doorway
Just come on into the room
I've been lying in our bed in the dark all alone
And I've been waiting, I've been waiting for you

There's been no reason to move
It's been as still as a tomb
I needed you oh so badly tonight
But I guess you had better things to do

I should have known that it was coming to this
But I must have been blind
I bet you still got a trace of her love in your eyes
And you've still got her eyes on your mind

You swore you'd be with me at 7 o'clock
Now it's a quarter to 3
And whatever you got and whoever it was
I guess you couldn't get it from me
Whatever you got and whoever it was
I guess you couldn't get it from me

I know that you love me
There's no need to talk
I see the look in your eyes and I got the proof
And there are no lies on your body
As I see you undress ooooh
I just want to get at the truth
I know that you love me
There's no need to talk
I see the look in your eyes and I got the proof
And there are no lies on your body
As I watch you undress
I just want to get at the truth

There are so many thing that I've just just gotta know
You tell me who! You tell me where! You tell me when!
But don't tell me now , I don't need any answers tonight
I just need some love so turn out the lights and
I'll be left in the dark again
I'll be left in the dark again
I'll be left in the dark again
Left in the dark again

I should have known that it was coming to this
But I must have been blind
I bet you still got a trace of her love in you eyes
And you still got her eyes on your mind

You swore you'd be with me at 7 o'clock
Now it's a quarter to 3
And whatever you got and whoever it was
I guess you couldn't get it from me
I guess you couldn't get it from me
But down in my soul, down in my soul
I know-
I know that you love me
There's no need to talk
I see the look in your eyes and I got the proof
And there are no lies on your body
As I watch you undress oooooh
I just want to get at the truth

And there are so many things
That I've just got to know
You tell me who! You tell me where!
You tell me when! But don't tell me now
I don't need any answers tonight....
I just need some love so turn out the lights and
I'll be left in the dark again

I just need some love
So turn out the lights and I'll be left in the dark again
I just need some love
So turn out the lights and I'll be left in the dark again
I just need some love
So turn out the lights and I'll be left in the dark again
I just need some love
So turn out the light and I'll be left in the dark again
I just need some love
So turn out the lights and I'll be left in the dark again......
Left in the dark again

Pud

**allrevvedup** · 06 Oct 2006, 13:00

'as i watch you undress' doesnt sound like it should fit in at all in that song

have heard a bit of streisands version...it's a bit too over the top even for Steinman

mszee · 06 Oct 2006, 13:17

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Originally Posted by allrevvedup

'as i watch you undress' doesnt sound like it should fit in at all in that song

have heard a bit of streisands version...it's a bit too over the top even for Steinman

Actually her video explains it all...she was "spying" on him...watching him with another woman...so she saw him undress through the window of the other woman's house I assume...

Pud, I think we will have to take this discussion into the chatroom next time we're both there...not sure what you're trying to ask me - seriously.

The reason I can see Meat imagining himself as a woman in that song is that song is somehow...too needy and too whiny...sure, men feel that way...but for a strong man it may not be easy to feel that way...most strong men (as well as women???) would just feel angry...I think?

I do have to put some more thought into this....

**allrevvedup** · 06 Oct 2006, 13:33

Some of us just put up all defences and don't want to admit things are going wrong, most politicians are like that!, and i think the song is just like that from the male point of view.

**RadioMaster** · 06 Oct 2006, 14:05

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Originally Posted by mszee

The reason I can see Meat imagining himself as a woman in that song is that song is somehow...too needy and too whiny...sure, men feel that way...but for a strong man it may not be easy to feel that way...most strong men (as well as women???) would just feel angry...I think?

It depends on the way YOU hear that song...
IMO it is absolutely not whiny, I see it more sarcastic.
"I needed you so badly tonight, but I guess you had better things to do"
But as I read it again...sure...it can also be interpreted as whiny.

mszee · 06 Oct 2006, 14:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by allrevvedup

Some of us just put up all defences and don't want to admit things are going wrong, most politicians are like that!, and i think the song is just like that from the male point of view.

And what I was trying to say is that females are often the same way...hear no evil...see no evil...

mszee · 06 Oct 2006, 14:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by RadioMaster

It depends on the way YOU hear that song...
IMO it is absolutely not whiny, I see it more sarcastic.
"I needed you so badly tonight, but I guess you had better things to do"
But as I read it again...sure...it can also be interpreted as whiny.

I hear these particular lyrics as just pure bitterness...

**RadioMaster** · 06 Oct 2006, 14:24

there you see the different points of view...

**RadioMaster** · 06 Oct 2006, 20:11

here´s the BS version of LITD

YouTube Video

I personally dont like it...it´s to screamy and somehow the emotion is missing...it´s just flat.

AndrewG · 06 Oct 2006, 20:53

Thanks for posting but dissapointing coming from such an established singer IMO and a boring video that does not suit the song at all. I'd rather listen to Jim anyday... I absolutely agree RJ, no emotion, Any reasonable high school singer would be just as entertaining IMO.

mszee · 06 Oct 2006, 21:03

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Originally Posted by AndrewG

Thanks for posting but dissapointing coming from such an established singer IMO and a boring video that does not suit the song at all. I'd rather listen to Jim anyday... I absolutely agree RJ, no emotion, Any reasonable high school singer would be just as entertaining IMO.

It amazed me when I saw it - I thought it was THAT bad...

04 Oct 2006, 22:55	#51
AndrewG I hope your salmon sucks! Join Date: 18.01.2004 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 7,084	Amen Jesus Christ Hallelujah!

04 Oct 2006, 23:01	#52
RadioMaster The German Join Date: 11.03.2006 Location: some kind of hunting lodge for rich weirdos... Posts: 15,778	k guys....it´s starting to be enough now.

04 Oct 2006, 23:09	#53
AndrewG I hope your salmon sucks! Join Date: 18.01.2004 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 7,084	Too much is never enough....

05 Oct 2006, 17:03	#54
rachelba Senior Loafer Join Date: 15.11.2003 Location: Rotherham, South Yorks, England Posts: 195	You have permission to shoot me down in flames but Meat said once that that the person in the song is actually a woman singing about another woman! Or was he joking!

05 Oct 2006, 21:12	#56
AndrewG I hope your salmon sucks! Join Date: 18.01.2004 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 7,084	Yeah I heard him say that once also. Obviously the lyrics would indicate two women lovers then, but I guess at the heart of the song it is possible that Jim envisaged a women and just changed the lyrics to suit a male singer.

06 Oct 2006, 01:39	#58
wenners Senior Loafer Join Date: 24.06.2005 Posts: 182	Its all about male insecurities and jealousy you know she's with someone else, you can imagine what there doing, its tearing you apart. your scared to know what exactly is going on. but you need to know the gory details but the pain is to great, so all you want to do is go to bed make love and for a few moments pretend nothing has happened. Listen to the Steinman's original version on Bad for Good and listen closely to both the spoken intro and ending as this both sets up and concludes the song perfectly.

06 Oct 2006, 01:44	#59
mszee Mega Loafer Join Date: 28.03.2006 Location: And you think you're down under??? Posts: 26,252	Well...it's the same for women...can go either way...

06 Oct 2006, 05:20	#62
Pudding I'm A Prize Fight Lover... Join Date: 22.10.2003 Location: New Zealand Posts: 5,532	My point is. This thread is about Left In The Dark and the comments given are for the lyrics from a man's perspective. You say it's the same for women, so..... regardless of Babs' singing or the production, do the lyrical changes in the song reflect a womans point, ould they be the type of things a woman would say or do? Pud

06 Oct 2006, 10:33	#64
rachelba Senior Loafer Join Date: 15.11.2003 Location: Rotherham, South Yorks, England Posts: 195	Did Barbara change the words? (I mean about taking the dress off etc.)

06 Oct 2006, 13:00	#66
allrevvedup "Most things that i worry about, never happen anyway" Join Date: 29.11.2003 Location: Liverpool Posts: 5,359	'as i watch you undress' doesnt sound like it should fit in at all in that song have heard a bit of streisands version...it's a bit too over the top even for Steinman

06 Oct 2006, 13:33	#68
allrevvedup "Most things that i worry about, never happen anyway" Join Date: 29.11.2003 Location: Liverpool Posts: 5,359	Some of us just put up all defences and don't want to admit things are going wrong, most politicians are like that!, and i think the song is just like that from the male point of view.

06 Oct 2006, 14:24	#72
RadioMaster The German Join Date: 11.03.2006 Location: some kind of hunting lodge for rich weirdos... Posts: 15,778	there you see the different points of view...

06 Oct 2006, 20:53	#74
AndrewG I hope your salmon sucks! Join Date: 18.01.2004 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 7,084	Thanks for posting but dissapointing coming from such an established singer IMO and a boring video that does not suit the song at all. I'd rather listen to Jim anyday... I absolutely agree RJ, no emotion, Any reasonable high school singer would be just as entertaining IMO.