Careless Love
Revelations of Love's Ruinous Grip
Lyrics
Love, oh love, oh careless love
Expresses the speaker's feelings towards love, emphasizing its carelessness.
You've fly through my head like wine
Describes the intoxicating and overwhelming nature of love, comparing it to wine.
You've wrecked the life of a many poor girl
Points out that love has negatively impacted the lives of many unfortunate girls.
And you nearly spoiled this life of mine
Indicates that love has come close to ruining the speaker's own life.
Love, oh love, oh careless love
Reiterates the theme of careless love and its powerful grip on the speaker.
In your clutches of desire
Describes love as a desire that ensnares the speaker.
You've made me break a many true vow
States that love has caused the speaker to break many true promises or vows.
Then you set my very soul on fire
Expresses the intense impact of love, setting the speaker's soul on fire.
Love, oh love, oh careless love
Repeats the theme of love causing sorrow and taking away happiness.
All my happiness bereft
Conveys the emptiness and sadness that love has brought to the speaker's life.
You've filled my heart with weary old blues
Highlights the emotional burden of love, filling the speaker's heart with weariness.
Now I'm walkin', talkin' to myself
Illustrates the loneliness and despair by depicting the speaker talking to themselves.
Love, oh love, oh careless love
Reemphasizes the theme of love, attributing trust to it even though it's now too late.
Trusted you now, it's too late
Indicates that love has led the speaker to betray a friend, causing regret and hatred.
You've made me throw my old friend down
Expresses the speaker's regret for abandoning an old friend due to the influence of love.
That's why I sing this song of hate
States that the consequences of love are the reason for singing a song of hate.
Love, oh love, oh careless love
Repeats the theme of love causing suffering, with the speaker mourning day and night.
Night and day, I weep and moan
Points out that love has brought the wrong person into the speaker's life.
You brought the wrong man into this life of mine
Addresses the speaker's acknowledgment of their sins and the need for atonement.
For my sins, till judgment I'll atone
Conveys the idea that the consequences of love will persist until judgment is faced.
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