Comes and Goes
Ephemeral Love: A Symphony of Joy and Sorrow
Lyrics
The woman's like the night
The woman is mysterious and unpredictable, much like the night.
She comes and goes
Her presence is transient; she appears and disappears from the speaker's life.
She breaks my heart each day
She consistently causes emotional pain to the speaker.
And never knows,
She remains oblivious to the heartbreak she inflicts.
And the time I spend in sorrow
The time spent in sadness equals the time spent living.
Will match the time I live
The cumulative sorrow matches the duration of the speaker's life.
And the time that's left is
What remains is all the speaker has to offer.
All I have to give.
The speaker's life is defined by the time remaining.
The woman's like an ivy on a pole
The woman is compared to ivy, suggesting her clinging and entwining nature.
She wraps her twisted love around my soul
Her love is complicated and wraps around the speaker's soul.
There will come a sudden winter
A metaphorical winter symbolizes a difficult period when she seeks warmth.
When she'll seek the warmth of day
She will eventually come to stay, implying a more permanent presence.
And there'll come a time when she will come to stay.
(Blank line)
The woman's like the tide
The woman's nature is likened to the tide, suggesting ebb and flow.
She comes and goes
She continues to come and go, emphasizing her inconsistent presence.
She knows the things that I can just suppose.
She understands things the speaker can only guess or suppose.
And the time I spend in sorrow
The time spent in sorrow matches the time she spends laughing.
Will match the time that she laughs
Her elusive nature cannot be fully explained by the songs the speaker sings.
And the songs I sing cannot explain but half.
(Repetition of Line #5)
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