Wanting You
Longing for Love: Yearning Heart's Tale
Lyrics
My heart is aching for someone
Expressing a deep longing or yearning for someone.
And you are that someone
Identifying the person being longed for as the one addressed.
You know the truth of my story
Acknowledging that the addressed person knows the truth of the speaker's story.
You must believe what you see
Emphasizing the importance of believing what is visible or evident.
I, too, may someday love someone
Hinting at the possibility of the speaker loving someone else in the future.
From somewhere there'll come one
Anticipating the arrival of someone special in the speaker's life.
One who will hear the same story
Referring to a future person who will experience a similar romantic story.
That you're telling me.
Expressing the idea that the addressed person is currently sharing their story.
Wanting you, every day I am wanting you
Conveying the speaker's continuous desire for the addressed person.
Every night I am longing to
Highlighting the speaker's nightly longing for the addressed person.
Hold you close to my eager breast
Expressing a physical desire to hold the addressed person close.
Wanting love, in that heaven I'm dreaming of
Desiring love and describing a heavenly dream associated with it.
Makes that heaven seem far above
Suggesting that the dream makes heaven appear distant from the speaker.
Any hope that I'll gain my quest
Expressing doubt or uncertainty about achieving the desired love.
Dreams are vain, but I cling to the
Acknowledging the potential futility of dreams but holding on to hope.
Merest chance that you may hear me
Clutching to the slim chance that the addressed person may hear the speaker.
Dreams are vain, for whenever I wake
Repeating the idea that dreams are often in vain, especially upon waking.
I never find you near me
Expressing the disappointment of not finding the addressed person upon waking.
Wanting you, nothing else in this world will do
Reiterating the speaker's intense desire for the addressed person.
In this world you are all that I adore,
Affirming that the addressed person is the sole object of adoration in the world.
All I adore.
Emphasizing the exclusivity of the speaker's adoration for the addressed person.
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