Everyone Is Dressed Up
Ephemeral Moments: Love, Loss, and Lifelong Bonds
Lyrics
Everyone is dressed up, everyone to the nines
People are dressed up in their best attire, looking their finest.
Someone must have found love or
Suggesting that either someone has found love or someone has passed away.
Someone must have died
Highlighting the contrasting emotions of joy and sorrow that occasions like dressing up may signify.
This will be forgotten by
Stating that the current situation or event will eventually be forgotten.
History and scholars, alike
Emphasizing that the event won't be remembered by both history and scholars.
Another moment of import lost to time
Reflecting on how significant moments can be lost and fade away with time.
Wild nights when we were younger
Recalling wild and carefree nights from the past.
We thought we’d live forever
Expressing the feeling of invincibility during youth.
At least we’ll die together
Suggesting a hope to face death together with those close.
If killing time was a crime
Playfully suggesting that if wasting time were a crime, they'd be on the "Most Wanted" list.
We’d be on the "Most Wanted" signs
Continuation of the idea that they often spend time in ways that may be considered unproductive.
Our love will surely be forgotten
Acknowledging that their love might not be remembered by history or scholars.
By history and scholars
Reiteration that their love won't be recorded for posterity.
Forever lost in time’s currents
Emphasizing the transience of their love in the currents of time.
Everybody knows that the best way
Beginning a metaphorical comparison of describing the ocean to a blind man.
To describe the ocean
Continuing the metaphor, emphasizing the challenge of describing something vast and complex.
To a blind man is to push him in
Suggesting that the best way to understand something is to experience it firsthand.
In the company of others
Highlighting the importance of shared experiences with others.
I’m reminded why we're lifetime lovers
Expressing a moment of realization about the enduring nature of their love.
The temperamental kind
Describing their love as temperamental, suggesting its unpredictability.
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