tender is the night

I don’t know where you came from
I don’t know where you’re going to
I don’t know what love is made of
I don’t know a lie from truth

But tonight I know what I want
Tonight I know what I’d like

I don’t know what Tom waits for
I don’t know what you’re running from
I don’t know the girl you could adore
I don’t know how to follow the sun

I want you to see me as I am
I want you to be the one who understands
I want you to take this trouble off my hands
I want you to write a song for me that no one comprehends
Tonight I want you

I don’t know why it can’t be simple
I don’t know why it’s black and white
I don’t know why your kiss is so cruel
I don’t know why I put up a fight

*chorus*

Tonight, tonight, it all began tonight
I saw you and the world went away
tonight, there's only you tonight
and tonight I hope that you're gonna stay
tonight

I wrote this during the summer, on July 15th to be precise. All of a sudden there was a person in my life who came out of left field, and I had no idea what to do with him, or myself. I became extremely confused, in the nicest way--I never knew where to put my hands while talking, and I didn't know how I felt...the only thing I knew was that I liked the person that he saw in me.

I sort of enjoy songs that latch onto a motif (here being "I don't know") and sort of write themselves as they go along. With that opening, I just kept thinking of other things I didn't know.

I realized that I don't know a whole lot. When it comes to having romantic feelings for people, that is. I know quite a lot about other things, useful things, like 19th Century American literature and shit.

Tanget. Sorry.

And I've always wanted to have songs written about me.

Does anyone know what musical these lyrics are, um, borrowed from? : "Tonight, tonight, it all began tonight / I saw you and the world went away."