The Weeknd - In The Night Lyrics

This song is about a female, (She) who was raped, most likely in a sex slave ring, and sold. (She was young and forced to be a woman, young and all she had was the city) She then, was sold to a strip club/works at a strip club.(The entire song) After years of experience, she knows not to get attached or her emotions will boil up(When you wake up shes always gone) She then continues this path(She'll never walk away) since it's the only path she knows.

The weeknd and another guy seem to be talking about a woman they're both involved with, the female subject of this song. She was sexually abused as a child (she was young when she was forced to be a woman,) and has never recovered from it. She's now a stripper who dances to the same song her abuser sang while raping her (he sang a song when he did it.) The emotional damage from her rape has turned her into a sexually wild and promiscuous person (she's capable of anything, it's reviting.) It has also made her incapable of loving someone and cold hearted ( in the morning she's always gone.) The weeknd has made his peace with his relationship with the stripper (I don't mind) but the other guy seems to feel used by her and is being judgemental. The Weeknd tells him he shouldn't be and then explains her story (I don't think you understand.) It sounds like he wrote this for someone he knows that really was abused. So many victims of child rape end up as co dependents, strippers, porn stars, promiscuous and emotionally bankrupt. The rape changes how they see themselves, and not for the better

The song is about a girl who was molested when she was younger, now shes grown older and is incapable of love. Shes a stripper, henceforth the "dollar bills and tears". She doesn't know how to deal with life other than how she is living now.

As far as I know, he wrote this song in Marilyn Monroe's old bedroom? And when I hear it, I do come to think of Marilyn Monroe. - "Dollar bills and tears keep falling down her face" Fame nor money can solve her internal problems. So she depends on love (or something that looks a lot like it) to solve those problems of her own. It' can't - it's not his problem - it's hers. "But when you wake up she's always gone" - could probably refer to Marilyn's early death. It also reminds me very much Michael Jackson. Billie Jean or something, I don't know. So it could also be about a groupie.

Is there anybody around who can testify that a woman has slept with him and left before he even wakes up in the morning? Or even, is there a girl out there who can confess she has done so? Because I firmly believe, it's a TV/Cinema introduced concept...