Lover Please
Yearning Echoes: Clyde McPhatter's Plea for Love's Return
Lyrics
Lover please, please come back
Lover, please return to me
Don't take a train coming down the track
Don't let a train symbolizing departure take you away
Don't, please don't, don't leave me
Requesting emphatically not to go
Don't leave me in misery
Expressing fear of being left in a state of intense suffering
You would never hold me so near
Recalling a time when the lover held the speaker closely
You would never call me "Dear"
Reflecting on a past when endearing terms like "Dear" were used
Don't you know I'd die for you?
Stating a willingness to sacrifice for the lover
Now you're gone, that's what I'll do
Expressing despair and a sense of purposelessness after the lover's departure
Lover please, please come back
Repeating the plea for the lover to return
Don't take a train coming down the track
Reiterating the warning against taking a departing train
Don't, please don't, don't leave me
Re-emphasizing the desperate plea not to leave
Don't leave me in misery
Reiterating the fear of being left in misery
All those stories, not too long
Referencing past stories of love gone wrong
About a love that went all wrong
Describing a love that ended badly
The girl left the boy, just as bad
Highlighting the negative outcome of a girl leaving a boy
Now she's gone, she's so sad
Indicating the sadness experienced by the girl after leaving
Lover please, please come back
Repeating the plea for the lover to come back
Don't take a train coming down the track
Restating the warning against a departing train
Don't, please don't, don't leave me
Re-emphasizing the desperate plea not to leave
Don't leave me in misery
Reiterating the fear of being left in misery
You would never hold me so near
Recalling a time when the lover held the speaker closely (repeated)
You would never have called me "Dear"
Reflecting on a past when endearing terms like "Dear" were used (repeated)
Don't you know I'd die for you?
Stating a willingness to sacrifice for the lover (repeated)
Now you're gone, that's what I'll do
Expressing despair and a sense of purposelessness after the lover's departure (repeated)
Lover please, please come back
Repeating the plea for the lover to return (repeated)
Don't take a train coming down the track
Reiterating the warning against taking a departing train (repeated)
Please don't, don't leave me
Continuing the desperate plea not to leave (repeated)
Don't leave me in misery
Reiterating the fear of being left in misery (repeated)
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