I feel so unsure As I take your hand and lead you to the dance floor As the music dies Something in your eyes Calls to mind a silver screen And all its sad goodbyes
(chorus) I'm never gonna dance again Guilty feet have got no rhythm Though it's easy to pretend I know you're not a fool I should have known better than to cheat a friend And waste the chance that I've been given So I'm never gonna dance again The way I danced with you
Time can never mend The careless whispers of a good friend To the heart and mind Ignorance is kind There's no comfort in the truth Pain is all you find
(chorus)
Tonight the music seems so loud I wish that we could lose this crowd Maybe it's better this way We'd hurt each other with the things we want to say We could have been so good together We could have danced this dance forever But now who's gonna dance with me Please stay
(chorus)
(x 2) Now I'm never gonna dance again Now it's easy to pretend I should have known better than to cheat a friend Maybe, maybe
I would say, it is about a complicated and painful childhood of a girl who wanted to run away from her parents many times and felt guilty for lying and cheating but lied to get out of the house. She was so desperate to be with someone that could love her. After she was out of school she got married and watched her best friend go off to her jet set career life while she stayed home and raised her baby. She is sad at home and thinks back to her high school days when she was young and felt alive. She had gotten pregnant in high school and opted out with a backdoor abortion, and the best friend slipped and told some classmates the story. This “careless whisper” found its way back to her when someone called her and wanted to know the Dr's name. There was guilt in this secret and shame in being found out. She felt she had "wasted the chance she had been given" to gain her parents trust again, to have been a good mother herself. But her parents made her swear not to tell especially for the Dr.'s sake. The liberal minister had referred the family to a Dr, and her mother encouraged that route. Thus careless whisper represents her friend who betrayed her by whispering to the crowd. All that is lonely when a girl gets pregnant at 16 and grows up so fast. In the refrain, "tonight the music seems so loud" she is remembering back before even that time to the first school dances in Jr. High, at the "mixers", and hanging out in the gym bathroom with the "in crowd" only to be ditched when she had her back turned and they uttered the words let's "lose this crowd". Now she’s a woman of say 24, trying to sorts diapers and other things out; Feeling depressed like the woman dancing under the palm trees by the muddy river, and cannot see her own beauty.
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