Careless Love
Careless Love's Bittersweet Tale: A Melody of Heartbreak and Redemption
Lyrics
Love, oh love, oh careless love
Expressing the speaker's feelings of love, but emphasizing its careless and unpredictable nature.
You've fly through my head like wine
Describing the intoxicating and overwhelming influence of love on the speaker's thoughts.
You've wrecked the life of a many poor girl
Highlighting the destructive impact of love on the lives of many unfortunate women.
And you nearly spoiled this life of mine
Suggesting that love has come close to ruining the speaker's own life.
Love, oh love, oh careless love
Reiterating the theme of careless love and its grip on the speaker's desires.
In your clutches of desire
Describing love as a force that causes the speaker to break promises and vows.
You've made me break a many true vow
Acknowledging the consequences of succumbing to the allure of love, leading to inner turmoil.
Then you set my very soul on fire
Expressing how love has ignited intense emotions within the speaker's soul.
Love, oh love, oh careless love
Continuing to lament the negative impact of careless love on the speaker's happiness.
All my happiness bereft
Conveying a sense of loss and despair, emphasizing the depletion of happiness.
You've filled my heart with weary old blues
Describing the emotional burden of love, using the metaphor of filling the heart with weary old blues.
Now I'm walkin', talkin' to myself
Illustrating the isolating effect of love, as the speaker is left walking and talking to themselves.
Love, oh love, oh careless love
Repeating the theme of careless love and expressing regret for trusting in it.
Trusted you now, it's too late
Highlighting the irreversibility of the damage caused by love, suggesting it is now too late for trust.
You've made me throw my old friend down
Indicating that love has led the speaker to betray a close friend.
That's why I sing this song of hate
Explaining the reason for the expression of hate through song – the betrayal of the old friend.
Love, oh love, oh careless love
Repeating the invocation of love and emphasizing the speaker's ongoing emotional turmoil day and night.
Night and day, I weep and moan
Expressing continuous sorrow and mourning caused by the wrong person brought into the speaker's life.
You brought the wrong man into this life of mine
Attributing the speaker's suffering to the wrong choices in love, leading to a life of atonement for sins.
For my sins, till judgment I'll atone
Expressing a sense of remorse and acknowledgment of impending judgment for the speaker's actions.
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