When I Stop Dreaming
Heartache Unveiled: Emmylou Harris' Tale of Love and Loss
Lyrics
The worst that I've ever been hurt
The most intense emotional pain I have ever experienced
In my life
In my entire existence
The first time I ever have
The first instance when I wished for death
Wanted to die
Due to the realization that you no longer love me
Was the night when you told me
This moment occurred at night
You loved someone new
You confessed to loving someone else
And you asked me if I could forget
You inquired if I could erase this pain from my heart
When I stop dreaming
The point in time when my dreams of us together cease
That's when I'll stop loving you
Signifying that my love for you will endure until then
You may teach the flowers
Using metaphor, you might guide nature in unusual ways
To bloom in the snow
Teaching flowers to bloom even in adverse conditions
You may take a pebble
Symbolic action of nurturing something small to maturity
And teach it to grow
Illustrating the impossibility of teaching growth to all things
You may teach all the raindrops
Suggesting an attempt to control natural processes
To return to the clouds
Efforts to reverse a natural cycle, analogous to heartache
But you can't teach my heart
Highlighting the emotional core that resists forgetting
To forget
The enduring nature of emotional pain and memories
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