You Were a Pride of Lions
Fading Flames of Love: Embracing Change in 'You Were a Pride of Lions'
Lyrics
I will write you back, always
I commit to responding to your messages consistently.
It's the same mistake, I know
Recognizing a recurring error, possibly in the relationship.
You are a beginning without an end-
You represent a beginning that seems endless, a love that's hard to release.
A love I can't let go
The love is intense and challenging to move on from.
Fall swept in like a fever or a birthright
The arrival of autumn is compared to a fever or an inherent entitlement.
Proud, and heavy with change
A season of change that is both proud and burdensome.
I watched the leaves turn from green to red
Observing nature's transformation, symbolizing change.
(as though the skyline had caught on fire)
The drastic change is likened to a skyline ablaze with fire.
All at once, I felt you were not coming back
Sudden realization of the absence of someone significant.
as I watched the world I knew burn
Witnessing the familiar world undergo a metaphorical burning.
I bowed my head in silence, waiting for a great and terrible loss
Anticipation of a profound and painful loss.
to overcome me
An expectation for overwhelming sorrow to envelop.
like all of the air in the world had been sucked up
A feeling of emptiness, as if all the air has been sucked away.
and left us for dead
Sensation of abandonment and hopelessness.
But it did not come
The expected devastation doesn't materialize.
It was the absence of absence
The absence itself becomes a significant presence.
It was the harshness of truth
Confronting the harsh reality and truth of the situation.
Then, I knew that I no longer loved you
Realization of falling out of love with the person.
I zipped up my jacket, and turned to walk home
Physically turning away and heading home.
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