A Year from Now
A Year from Now: Echoes of Lost Love and Unfulfilled Promises
Lyrics
Complete and total adoration,
Expressing deep love and admiration.
My gift to you, my heart was yours,
Offering the heart as a gift.
In ten weeks you shaped it,
Over ten weeks, the recipient influenced or changed the giver's heart.
In one night you murdered it.
In a single night, the relationship was destroyed or damaged severely.
Torn from my chest and laid at your feet,
Metaphorically, the heart was forcibly taken away and rejected.
That first step that you took was the worst.
The initial step in the separation or breakup was the most painful.
Since then you've walked a thousand miles in solace and short remark,
Despite the emotional distance, the person has walked a considerable distance.
And I still have these memories,
The speaker retains memories despite the breakup.
But will never see what we could have been.
Regret for the unrealized potential of the relationship.
Remember when we talked about where we'd be a year from now?
Reflecting on past conversations about the future.
Remember when you held my hand like you'd never let it go?
Recalling the intimacy and connection once shared.
Remember, Cause that's all you can do.
Emphasizing the significance of memories as the only remnants of the past.
We'll never make another memory,
Acknowledging the end of the possibility to create new memories.
We'll never make another memory.
Reiteration of the finality of the relationship.
I wish i would have died in your arms the last time we were together,
Expressing a desire to have died during a moment of closeness.
So I wouldn't have to wake without you today.
The pain of waking up without the person the speaker loved.
This time I thought things were real,
Doubting the authenticity of the recent emotional connection.
You said they were,
Questioning the partner about the apparent change.
What happened?
Seeking an explanation for the unexpected turn of events.
You were a priority,
Expressing the speaker's view of the partner as a priority.
Was I an option?
Raising doubt about the speaker's importance in the partner's life.
I let you see a side of me that I don't share with anyone.
Revealing a vulnerable side shared exclusively with the partner.
Promises are just words unless they are fulfilled.
Stressing the importance of fulfilling promises for them to have meaning.
Knew from the beginning all I had to offer you was my heart,
From the beginning, the speaker offered only their heart to the partner.
I'm just sorry that it wasn't enough.
Expressing regret that the speaker's love was insufficient for the partner.
So, we'll go our own ways,
Anticipating a separation and going separate ways.
And hopefully you'll remember these things i've told you,
Hoping the partner remembers the words shared.
Hopefully you'll understand that everything I said is in sincerity.
Emphasizing the sincerity of the speaker's words.
A broken heart is not what I wanted from this,
Expressing disappointment in the outcome of a broken heart.
But I guess i've learned from it.
Acknowledging a lesson learned from the experience.
But aren't you supposed to learn from your mistakes?
Raising a rhetorical question about the expected learning from mistakes.
I don't consider this a mistake,
Rejecting the notion that the relationship was a mistake.
I just wish the story didn't end this way,
Expressing a wish for a different ending to the story.
Cause i'm still in love with the person who helped me write it.
Remaining in love with the person despite the pain.
Remember when we talked about where we'd be a year from now?
Repeating the reflection on future conversations that will never happen.
Remember when you held my hand like you'd never let it go?
Recalling the intimacy of holding hands, highlighting the finality of the separation.
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