1) The song is about a man who is trying to spend an evening with a woman and hoping she will dance and go somewhere quiet with him afterwards. 2) He worries that he will ruin the moment by saying "I love you", which he knows she will dislike based on past experiences. 3) In the end, he decides he will wait until they are alone together late at night to say "I love you", hoping the romantic moment will make her receptive despite his worry that she dislikes such declarations.

1. Something Stupid - Nancy and Frank Sinatra jr
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(I) know I stand in line until you think you have the time to spend an evening with me
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And if we go some place to dance I know that thereʼs a chance you wonʼt be
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leaving with me. Then afterwards we go out to a
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quiet little place and have a drink or two. And
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then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like I love you
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I can see it in your eyes that you despise the same old lies you heard the

2. Something Stupid- contd. p.2
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night before. And though itʼs just a line to you, for
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me itʼs true it never seemed so right before. I
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practice every day to find some clever lines to say to make the meaning come through.
Instrumental
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But then I think Iʼll wait un- til the eveningʼs getting late and Iʼm a-
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lone with you. The time is right your perfume fills my
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head, the stars get red and oh the night is blue. And

3. Something Stupid- contd. p.3
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then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like I love you
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I can see it in your eyes that you despise the same old lies you heard the
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head, the stars get red and oh the night is blue. And then I go and spoil it all by
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saying something stupid like I love you. I...
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love you. I love you.