Echoes of Love
Echoes of Love: A Melancholic Journey Through Heartbreak
Lyrics
Down in the valley of love there's a big ol' lonesome
Describing a desolate place in the metaphorical "valley of love" where loneliness prevails.
Cave where all the broken hearts mourn
Highlighting a cavern where hearts broken by love gather to mourn their lost love.
The love they gave
Referencing the love that individuals in the valley once gave, now lost and mourned.
On coal black nights their tears are carried on the wind
Depicting the emotional pain during dark times, symbolized by tears carried on the wind.
And wash you with the feeling that you'll
Conveying the feeling of being washed with despair, doubting the possibility of love in the future.
Never love again
Expressing the profound belief that love may never be experienced again.
Oh, how the poison vines do wrap around your soul
Metaphorically portraying the entangling and destructive nature of negative emotions like poison vines.
And drag you down a long dark path to the place
Describing a journey into darkness, where nothing positive or nurturing can grow.
Where nothing grows
Illustrating a desolate place devoid of growth or hope.
It's cold and lonely and your only company
Portraying the isolation and loneliness of the place, with only one's suffering as company.
Are the ever present voices singing love's lost melody
Emphasizing the constant presence of voices singing a melancholic tune of lost love.
If you've ever heard it you know there's no sadder sound
Expressing the profound sadness in the sound of love fading, akin to a distant train whistle.
Than love fading like a whistle on the last
Comparing the fading of love to the diminishing sound of a train leaving town.
Train leaving town
Conveying the poignant emptiness left when love fades away.
'Til all you hear are the echoes of love
Describing a state where the only remnants of love are echoes, emphasizing its absence.
It's cold and lonely and your only company
Reiterating the cold and lonely nature of the place with the persistent voices of lost love.
Are the ever present voices singing love's lost melody
Repeating the presence of voices singing a mournful melody of love lost.
If you've ever heard it you know there's no sadder sound
Restating the profound sadness in the sound of love fading away.
Than love fading like a whistle on the last
Echoing the metaphor of love's departure, likened to the sound of a departing train whistle.
Train leaving town
Concluding the analogy of love leaving town with a poignant sense of finality.
'Til all you hear are the echoes
Reiterating the persisting echoes that signify the absence of love.
All you hear are the echoes
Emphasizing that all that remains are the echoes of love.
'Til all you hear are the echoes of love
Repeating the notion that only echoes of love persist, underlining the emptiness.
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