Unanswered Question
Unveiling Love's Riddles: Amel Larrieux's Unanswered Question
Lyrics
They speak of jobs and positions
Discussion about careers and social statuses
Who's seeing who, who's settled down
Talking about relationships, commitments, and settling down
They casually mention your name
Mentioning your name casually
The power in the a word's insane
Recognizing the immense power and impact of words
How it triggers everything to come tumbling down
How mentioning triggers a cascade of emotions and thoughts
into the pit of my stomach
Feeling a mix of heaviness and excitement in the stomach
Boulders and butterflies coexist
Contrasting feelings coexisting, possibly representing confusion or mixed emotions
That chemical reaction shared by all romantics
Chemical reactions linked to romantic feelings shared by many
Threatens to persist
These emotions threaten to endure over time
chorus
Repetition of an unanswered question
And this
Continuation of the unanswered question's presence
Unanswered question
A lingering, unresolved query
Lingers on
It persists until this present moment
To this later date
Asking if it's possible to resign from never knowing
Can I resign
Permanently avoiding the understanding of being the one that got away
To never knowing
Reflecting on the cycle of relationships with uncertainty and ambiguity
If I was your one that got away
Questioning if she was the missed chance in a relationship
the back and forth, the on and off
Describing the back-and-forth nature of a relationship
The "don't call anymore"
Expressing the command to stop contacting
The leaving, the wishing I had stayed
Regretting leaving and wishing for a different choice
A self inflicted prison I (wanna'/won't)? escape
Feeling trapped but possibly hesitant to escape
Like if I did the memories would decay
Concern that memories might deteriorate if she leaves
and there'd be no more hours of dreaming
Imagining a life spent dreaming about a relationship with someone
Bout what a life with you (could) have been
Contemplating the potential life that could have been
That chemical reaction shared by all romantics
Reiterating the shared chemical reactions in romantic feelings
Has some twisted need to exist
Suggesting the persistence of these emotions despite their complexity
Bridge
say you feel nothing when you see me
Asking for honesty about feelings when encountering each other
Say that where I walk ,flowers have grown
Desiring acknowledgment of personal growth and change
Say that I rocked your world
Asking for affirmation about personal impact
Say that I was never your girl
Claiming a desire for recognition in the past relationship
Just give me somethin'
Requesting any form of confirmation or assurance
Give me somethin' I can put in stone
Asking for something tangible to hold onto
chorus
Repetition of the unanswered question, emphasizing its persistence
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