Lyrics
Sometimes in the night I hear you calling
Sometimes in the night, the singer perceives a call.
From this one room house I'm living in
The singer is in a small house and wonders if the call is real.
Is that just the wind chimes I keep hearing
Questioning if the sound is just wind chimes.
Or the lonesome moan from a distant wind
Considering if the sound is a distant wind's mournful moan.
It's been three years since you walked out on my life
Reflecting on three years since a significant person left.
And left me for a better taste of home
Expressing the pain of being abandoned for a better home.
You're memory still echos in the distance
The memory of the departed lingers in the singer's mind.
I can't convince myself that you're really gone
The singer struggles to accept the reality of the person's departure.
I hear you calling
The singer hears a calling, possibly from the departed person.
Is that just in my mind
Questioning if the call is a product of the singer's imagination.
I hear you whispering
Hearing whispered words, but they are not from the departed person.
But it's not you this time
The voice heard is not that of the departed person.
I hear you in the rain when it's falling
The singer hears the departed person in the sound of falling rain.
I hear you calling
Reiteration of hearing a call from the departed person.
How could I escape the pain in my heart
The pain in the singer's heart is challenging to endure.
It's the hardest thing I've ever tried to bear
Describing the emotional difficulty as the hardest ever faced.
What I wouldn't give to hold you so close
Expressing a strong desire to hold the departed person close again.
I hear you say my name but you're never there
Hearing the departed person saying the singer's name but not being present.
I hear you calling
Repetition of hearing a call from the departed person.
Is that just in my mind
Reiterating the uncertainty if the call is real or imagined.
I hear you whispering
Hearing whispers but realizing they are not from the departed person.
But it's not you this time
The voice heard in whispers is not that of the departed person.
I hear you in the rain when it's falling
Hearing the departed person in the sound of falling rain again.
I hear you calling
Repetition of hearing a call from the departed person.
I hear you calling
Reiterating the experience of hearing a call from the departed person.
Is that just in my mind
Reiterating the uncertainty if the call is real or imagined.
I hear you whispering
Hearing whispers but realizing they are not from the departed person.
But it's not you this time
The voice heard in whispers is not that of the departed person.
I hear you in the rain when it's falling
Hearing the departed person in the sound of falling rain again.
I hear you calling
Repetition of hearing a call from the departed person.
I hear you calling
Repetition of the experience of hearing a call from the departed person.
South
The song ends with a geographic reference, possibly symbolic.
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