This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why" So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship. 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. 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 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: "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" I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines: 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'll take you away, hey, turn this place into our private getawayīaby are you down down down down down? (Down, down)ĭown like her temperature, 'cause to me she zero degreesĭon't it look like baby cupid sendin' arrows from aboveĪnd honestly, I'm down like the economy (yeah) Just let it be, come on and bring your body next to me You won't be lonely, even if the sky is falling downīaby are you down, down, down, down, down? (Down, down) So come on and fly with me, as we make our great escape So leave it behind 'cause we have a night to get away Put on a show, I wanna see how you lose control You oughta know, tonight is the night to let it go He is also down, but for a person it has a different meaning, it means “sad”.Baby are you down, down, down, down down? (Down, down)Įven if the sky is falling down? (Down, down) I’M DOWN LIKE THE ECONOMY= At the moment of writing this song (end of 2008) the whole world was at deep recession, so the economy is down. This is an imperative form, so we shouldn’t use the subject YOU, but we can use it to emphasize the imperative (to make it stronger). If we use “don’t” we can’t use “never”, because we would have a double negative, so we say “ever”. “The side of me” is a twisted way of simply saying “my side” (and not very correct either). In fact, it has no meaning this time, it’s simply a common way to start a sentence, especially after a pause.īATTLEFIELD= The place where a battle takes place.īABY CUPID= Cupid is the Greek god of love, but in modern culture we usually represent it as a little boy or baby shooting arrows to make people fall in love (if you’re hit, you fall in love).ĭON’T YOU EVER LEAVE THE SIDE OF ME= Never leave my side. NOW, CAN I BE…= In the previous line he said “now she’s my Miss America”, and here he repeats the word NOW, but with a different meaning. This means that she is the most beautiful girl he knows (it’s the American rapper singing this). SHE MY MISS AMERICA= She is my Miss America (again he drops the verb “to be”). In America, part of the foreign countries are overseas, but many are not (Canada and most South American countries are abroad but not overseas). The UK is an island, so the adverb “overseas” (= farther than the sea) is the same as “abroad” (= from/in a foreign country). In very colloquial English you can sometimes drop the verb “to be”. But here, “she gets down low for me” probably has some sexual connotations that you can guess, that’s why they censored the word “low” on this video and we get “she gets down for me”, and “to get down” simply means to dance. The sentence “down like she is supposed to be” means “people think she is down” (so it’s probably true, but not sure). WHY DON’T WE RUN AWAY?= One of the common ways of expressing suggestions is using the question “why don’t we.?” LET IT BE= Relax and don’t worry about it. YOU ARE MY ONLY= You are my only one (my only love). LEAVE IT BEHIND= Forget about all your problems. Here it means: get wild, dance like crazy, let everybody watch you and think “wow” (like on a show). TO LET IT GO= To forget about all your problems and relax. YOU OUGHTA KNOW= You ought to know, you should know. THE SKY IS FALLING DOWN= Everything around you is a disaster, everything’s going wrong. ARE YOU DOWN?= Are you sad? Are you depressed?
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