Sweet Isabella
Echoes of Isolation: Unraveling Love's Complexities in Sweet Isabella
Lyrics
I hardly know you, sweet Isabella
I have limited knowledge of you, Sweet Isabella
Meet me in the frozen hallway
Arrange to meet me in the cold hallway
Our own isolation, feel the vibrations
We are in our own isolation, sensing the vibrations
Echoes from the bottom staircase
Hearing echoes from the bottom of the staircase
Flowers in my head
Symbolic reference to thoughts or memories with "flowers in my head"
Remains of what she left
Remnants of what she left behind
I want to feel again
Expressing a desire to experience emotions again
But I don't see myself falling for
Uncertain about falling for someone
Somebody else like myself can't pretend
Unable to pretend like someone similar to oneself won't cause pain
That I wouldn't hurt in some way by the end
Anticipating emotional hurt by the end of the relationship
Kissing my lips but you're thinking of his, I'm sure
The person is kissing the singer but thinking about someone else
Cause I'm thinking of hers,
The singer is thinking about someone else, not the person kissing
Not you and your eyes and the way that they lie
Reference to the lies in the eyes of the current person
I only noticed cause they look like mine
The singer notices the similarity between their eyes and the current person's eyes
Kissing my lips but she's on my mind
Current person is on the singer's mind during the kiss
You're lust and she's love
Contrasting lust (current person) with love (someone else)
Thank God I hardly know you
Expressing gratitude for not knowing the person well
I've got to tell you, Sweet Isabella
The singer needs to communicate with Sweet Isabella
Don't know what we're doing here
Uncertainty about the purpose of their connection
You don't taste that different from what I've been missing
Sweet Isabella doesn't taste significantly different from past experiences
Maybe that's something I should fear
Consideration of fearing the lack of distinction
Flowers in my head
Symbolic reference to thoughts or memories with "flowers in my head"
Remains of what she left
Remnants of what Sweet Isabella left behind
I want to feel again
Expressing a desire to experience emotions again
But I don't see myself falling for
Uncertain about falling for someone
Somebody else like myself can't pretend
Unable to pretend like someone similar to oneself won't cause pain
That I wouldn't hurt in some way by the end
Anticipating emotional hurt by the end of the relationship
Kissing my lips but you're thinking of his, I'm sure
The person is kissing the singer but thinking about someone else
Cause I'm thinking of hers,
The singer is thinking about someone else, not the person kissing
Not you and your eyes and the way that they lie
Reference to the lies in the eyes of the current person
I only noticed cause they look like mine
The singer notices the similarity between their eyes and the current person's eyes
Kissing my lips but she's on my mind
Current person is on the singer's mind during the kiss
You're lust and she's love
Contrasting lust (current person) with love (someone else)
Thank God I hardly know you
Expressing gratitude for not knowing the person well
I hardly know you
Reiteration of limited knowledge about Sweet Isabella
I hardly know you
Repetition of the idea that the singer hardly knows Sweet Isabella
I wish I didn't but I do
Wishing not to know Sweet Isabella, but acknowledging the reality
I hardly know you
Repetition of the desire not to know Sweet Isabella
I hardly know you
Continued expression of the wish not to know Sweet Isabella
I wish I didn't, but I do
Reiterating the desire not to know Sweet Isabella, despite knowing
I wish I didn't know you
Expressing the wish not to have knowledge about Sweet Isabella
I wish I didn't know you
Repetition of the desire not to have knowledge about Sweet Isabella
I say that I don't
Claiming not to know Sweet Isabella, but acknowledging the similarity
But you're like me, so I do
Despite the claim of not knowing, the singer acknowledges the similarity and knows the person
And I hardly know you
Reiteration of limited knowledge about Sweet Isabella
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