No One Ever Tells You
Love's Silent Lessons: Unveiling the Emotions in 'No One Ever Tells You'
Lyrics
No one ever tells you what's like to love and lose,
No one provides guidance on the emotions of love and loss.
How it feels to waken and have breakfast with the blues,
Describes the melancholy feeling upon waking up, starting the day with sadness.
How to go on living, how to face another day,
Addresses the challenge of continuing life and facing each new day after heartbreak.
No one ever tells you the way.
Expresses the lack of advice on how to navigate through the pain of love.
No one ever tells you how it feels to walk alone,
Highlights the loneliness and emptiness experienced when walking alone.
Listening for those footsteps through the echo of your own.
Conveys the longing for someone else's presence, emphasized by the echo of one's footsteps.
Suddenly it hits you all those dreams WEREN'T worth a dime,
Realization that past dreams were not valuable, hitting with the impact of their worthlessness.
Cause no one ever tells you in time.
Reflects on the absence of timely advice about the true nature of relationships.
Long before the icy winds of winter,
Refers to a period preceding the hardships, possibly a metaphor for a more innocent time.
Autumn tells the swallows, time to fly,
Uses autumn as a metaphor to signal the need for change, urging to move on.
Why did she pretend till the bitter end
Questions why someone continued to pretend until the painful end of the relationship.
Till it broke my heart to say goodbye.
Expresses the heartbreak and difficulty in saying goodbye after prolonged deception.
No one ever tells you that it's just another fling
States that the experience of love is often treated casually as just another fleeting affair.
No one ever warns you when your heart begins to SING
Warns that no one cautions when genuine emotions, like the heart singing, begin to emerge.
Someone tells you later all is fair in love and war,
Acknowledges the later realization that love and war have their own rules, after the fact.
But no one ever tells you before.
Reiterates the lack of forewarning about the complexities of love.
No one ever tells you that it's just another fling,
Repeats the sentiment that love is often treated as a fleeting, inconsequential affair.
No one ever warns you when your heart begins to sting
Reiterates the absence of warnings when love turns painful and stings the heart.
Someone tells you later all is fair in love and war,
Repeats the realization that societal norms justify actions in love and war after the fact.
But no one ever tells you before.
Emphasizes the recurring theme that no one imparts this wisdom beforehand.
It never comes easy, no one ever tells you before.
Summarizes the overarching message that understanding love doesn't come easily and is often learned through experience.
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