Nothing Compares
Yearning for Happiness: Les Shirley's 'Nothing Compares' Reflection
Lyrics
Beat down
Feeling defeated or overwhelmed
Must I keep going on
Expressing a desire to stop or questioning the need to continue
Endlessly
Continuing without an apparent end
It's all been
Reflecting on past experiences
Circling around me
Sensation of things revolving around oneself
Those plastic people
Referring to insincere or artificial people
Seem so happy
Observing the apparent happiness of others
Happy, so Happy
Emphasizing the happiness of others
Why not me?
Expressing a desire for happiness
Nothing compares
Nothing can compare to a certain experience or feeling
I'm not over you
Admitting not being completely over someone emotionally
You know I care
Acknowledging a level of care for someone
Even more than I wanted to
Expressing a level of care beyond initial expectations
Nothing compares
Reiterating that nothing compares to a certain experience
I'm not over you,
Reaffirming not being completely over someone
Over you, oh no
Reiterating not being over someone with emphasis
ayayayayaya
An expressive or emotional vocalization without specific meaning
Take me
Inviting or requesting to be taken by someone or something
I'm living empty and
Describing a state of living with a sense of emptiness
Helplessly
Feeling without control or support
It's not easy to love
Highlighting the difficulty in loving someone
Somebody
Expressing the challenge of being with somebody
The other people
Observing the apparent happiness of others (repeated theme)
Seem so happy
Reiterating the observation of others' happiness
Happy, so Happy
Emphasizing the happiness of others (repeated theme)
It's crazy
Conveying a sense of astonishment or disbelief
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