We Buy Jewelry When the Love Runs Out
Chasing Life's Glance: Reflections on Love, Regret, and Longing
Lyrics
I have been both lover and beloved, unrequited
Experiencing both sides of love - being a lover and being loved, even in instances of unrequited love.
Dispassionate and quiet around you.
Describing a state of emotional detachment and calmness when around the person being addressed.
And when I am old, when the skin under my eyes
Contemplating the aging process and the impact of life experiences on one's appearance.
Stretches to wrap around the things I've seen,
Imagining the physical changes with age, symbolized by the stretching of skin under the eyes due to the things witnessed.
What will it mean that I didn't take a chance on you?
Raising questions about the significance of not taking a chance on the addressed person and the potential regret.
Didn't get lost in a glance from you?
Expressing the idea of missing out on a meaningful connection represented by getting lost in a glance from the person.
This fragile balance, this delicate palace where one left
Describing a fragile balance and a delicate palace, metaphorically representing the complexities of relationships.
Puts two people on two different paths.
Highlighting how choices made by one person can lead two individuals onto different life paths.
But if I hold out my hands to you
Possibly extending a gesture of reaching out or seeking connection with the addressed person.
It doesn't make it right, it doesn't make it right.
Acknowledging that reaching out or making a move doesn't automatically make it morally right.
I want more for my life than my name in lights,
Expressing a desire for a fulfilling life beyond superficial recognition, such as having one's name in lights.
My name in lights!
Repeating the aspiration for personal fulfillment and significance.
I've read books and understood them,
Claiming to have read and comprehended books, possibly referring to understanding life and relationships.
Understood the looks you gave me
Recognizing and understanding non-verbal communication, particularly the looks given by the addressed person.
When I sent you a letter from Bennington
Recalling sending a letter from Bennington, indicating a specific location and context in the past.
Telling you that I couldn't leave his grave without a poem of my own
Describing the content of the letter, mentioning an inability to leave someone's grave without creating a personal poem.
And all I wrote about was having you and not having you.
Reflecting on conflicting emotions of desiring and not having the addressed person in one's life, as expressed in the poem.
I want more for my life than my name in lights!
Reiteration of the desire for a more meaningful and fulfilling life beyond external recognition.
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