Lyrics
Speak low when you speak, love,
Advocates speaking softly or discreetly when expressing love.
Our summer day withers away
Describes the fleeting nature of a summer day.
Too soon, too soon.
Emphasizes the brevity of the moment, suggesting it ends too quickly.
Speak low when you speak, love,
Reiterates the need for quietness in expressing love.
Our moment is swift, like ships adrift,
Compares the swiftness of their moment to ships drifting apart.
We're swept apart too soon.
Expresses the idea of being separated prematurely.
Speak low, darling speak low,
Encourages maintaining a hushed tone while expressing affection.
Love is a spark lost in the dark,
Portrays love as a fragile spark easily lost in darkness.
Too soon, too soon,
Reiterates the theme of premature endings in love.
I feel wherever I go
Expresses a feeling of inevitability or premonition.
That tomorrow is near, tomorrow is here
Suggests that the future is imminent and always arrives too soon.
And always too soon.
Repeats the notion of premature endings, emphasizing the immediacy of tomorrow.
Time is so old and love so brief,
Contrasts the agelessness of time with the brevity of love.
Love is pure gold and time a thief.
Metaphorically portrays love as valuable and time as a thief.
We're late darling, we're late,
Expresses regret or a sense of lateness in the relationship.
The curtain descends, ev'rything ends
Portrays the end of everything, symbolized by a descending curtain.
Too soon, too soon,
Reiterates the theme of things concluding prematurely.
I wait darling, I wait
Expresses a sense of anticipation, waiting for something.
Will you speak low to me,
Asks the partner to speak quietly or tenderly.
Speak love to me and soon.
Requests the expression of love in a hushed manner.
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