Lyrics
Oh, friend - how I wish I could tell you
Expressing a desire to share thoughts with a friend.
All the things you were meant to learn in time
Acknowledging the natural process of learning over time.
All of the wide and winding pavements
Referring to life's journey with wide and winding paths.
All the little narrow ways
Mentioning the various choices or paths, both broad and narrow.
Missteps you took along the way
Reflecting on mistakes or missteps taken along the journey.
Oh, friend - I guess it was meant to be
Acceptance that certain events were destined to happen.
You’d have done all the same even if I’d said
Recognition that advice might not have altered the course of events.
How you’d be faithless fortune’s fool
Describing a fate of being deceived by false beliefs.
To keep holding onto things
Holding onto things despite their negative impact.
The one that hurts you also brings you love
Highlighting the paradox that what hurts also brings love.
All those questionable relational choices
Expressing frustration about questionable relationship choices.
Make me insane
Feeling disturbed or mentally affected by those choices.
I went for the ones who gave the chase
Preferring relationships where pursuit is evident.
How I made mistakes
Admitting past errors or misjudgments.
I was living on highs all of the time, just looking away
Living in a state of euphoria while ignoring reality.
The real thing left was all of the pain
Realizing that true feelings were masked by temporary highs.
And it aches, it breaks, to know the bitter truth
Expressing the emotional pain of knowing a bitter truth.
It aches, it breaks, shakes you till you’re bruised
Emphasizing the intense emotional impact of the revelation.
You didn’t want to know how this love was just a ruse
Acknowledging the reluctance to accept love as deceitful.
Till you awoke to the inconvenient facts about the matter then
Awakening to inconvenient facts about the love's authenticity.
All those questionable relational choices
Reiterating frustration over questionable relationship choices.
Make me insane
Reemphasizing the mental toll of those choices.
I went for the ones who gave the chase
Preferring relationships where pursuit is evident (repeated).
How I made mistakes
Admitting past errors or misjudgments (repeated).
But without them I’d never be
Recognizing personal growth despite mistakes.
Who I am today
Stating that one's current identity is shaped by past experiences.
Good things come to those who wait
Encouraging patience for good things to come.
Remember, remember the one who brings you love
Reminding to cherish the one who brings love.
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