Lyrics
Oh I could not reciprocate
Expressing inability to reciprocate the gentleness received.
The gentleness of all your ways
Acknowledging the gentle qualities of the other person.
Did I try?
Reflecting on whether there was an attempt to reciprocate.
And I know my heart is large
Acknowledging the size of the heart but impacted by winter metaphorically.
But the winter had its way
Winter symbolizes challenges or difficulties affecting the speaker.
Against me
Expressing the impact of challenges against the speaker.
Oh the fire fades into the night
Describing the fading of passion or intensity, possibly in a relationship.
And we resume our busy lives
Resuming daily routines and busy lives despite the fading fire.
Our lives
Emphasizing the repetition of "Our lives" to highlight the routine.
Our lives
-Our lives
-There's no feeling
Expressing a sense of emotional numbness or emptiness.
No feeling
Reiterating the absence of emotions.
I could not adore you anymore
Expressing maximum admiration but facing internal conflicts.
Cause war is bred inside this stasis
Suggesting that conflict or war exists within the speaker's emotional state.
Trading places
Referring to changing roles or positions in a relationship.
And I've been there myself so I know
Sharing personal experience of enduring such changes.
That it will never go
Asserting that the impact of these changes is lasting.
It'll never go
-Oh more than just a premonition
Describing a wish to avoid loneliness, possibly a premonition of solitude.
I was wishing to be not alone
Expressing the desire not to be alone.
To be not alone
-Alone
Reiterating the theme of solitude.
There's no feeling
Reaffirming the absence of feelings, possibly due to emotional detachment.
No feeling
-The fire dies
Declaring the extinguishing of the metaphorical fire, possibly passion or love.
The fire dies
-There's no feeling
Repeating the absence of feelings and the demise of the metaphorical fire.
No feeling
-The fire dies
-The fire dies
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