From the Red
Hopeful Longing: Unraveling Love in 'From the Red'
Lyrics
I saw the future in a tree outside.
I had a vision of the future symbolized by a tree.
There was your heart, and there was mine.
Both our hearts were present in this vision.
This love, torn apart by every word.
Our love is being destroyed by every spoken word.
Is hopeless love all we have?
Questioning if our love is now only filled with despair.
Is hopeless love all we have?
Repeating the question, emphasizing the doubt about the nature of love.
Is this what we dreamed?
Reflecting on whether the current situation aligns with our dreams.
I cannot go.
Expressing an inability to move forward.
Take this heart let it die slow.
Suggesting a desire for emotional pain to end gradually.
Tear away from,
Encouraging detachment from something.
Tear away from the pain.
Encouraging detachment from emotional suffering.
Tear away from,
Reiterating the need to detach, particularly from something red.
Tear away from the red.
Emphasizing the need to detach from something red, possibly symbolic.
Are we trading in our hearts for emptiness?
Questioning if we are sacrificing genuine emotions for emptiness.
Is this love or human condition?
Contemplating whether the current experience is love or a result of human condition.
I close my eyes to see you.
Closing one's eyes to visualize the presence of the person.
Hope is in your name.
Finding hope in the person's name despite distance.
Where you are I cannot go.
Acknowledging the impossibility of reaching where the person is.
Take, this heart and let it die slow.
Requesting to take the heart and let it slowly fade away.
I cannot go.
Reiterating the inability to move forward emotionally.
Take this heart let it die slow.
Expressing the desire for the heart to gradually cease.
Tear away from,
Encouraging detachment from a source of pain.
Tear away from the pain.
Reiterating the need to tear away from emotional suffering.
Tear away from,
Emphasizing the need to tear away from something red, possibly symbolic.
Tear away from the red.
Continuing the emphasis on detaching from something red.
Take this heart from the red.
Explicitly stating to take the heart away from something red.
I cannot go.
Reiterating the inability to move forward emotionally.
Take this heart let it die slow.
Expressing the desire for the heart to gradually cease.
Tear away from,
Encouraging detachment from a source of pain.
Tear away from the pain.
Reiterating the need to tear away from emotional suffering.
Tear away from,
Emphasizing the need to tear away from something red, possibly symbolic.
Tear away from the red.
Continuing the emphasis on detaching from something red.
Tear away from, from the pain.
Reiterating the need to tear away from pain.
Tear away from, from the red.
Reiterating the need to tear away from something red.
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