How to Love You
Unlocking Love's Puzzle: Decoding Paul Spring's 'How to Love You'
Lyrics
Down on the ground flowers for you
Offering flowers to you while being down on the ground, possibly suggesting a gesture of affection or apology.
Stone to stone, tell me what to do
Seeking guidance or instruction, comparing it to moving from one challenge to another.
How to love you
Expressing a desire to understand how to love the person better.
Piece it together pendulum moods
Trying to understand and reconcile different emotional states.
She thinks you had same thing I do
Someone else (possibly a third party) thinks the speaker and the person being addressed share similar experiences or feelings.
How to love you
Reiterating the desire to learn how to love the person more effectively.
If I could change more slowly
Wishing for a slower pace of personal change or growth.
Between lightning and lowly
Referring to a contrast between moments of intensity (lightning) and moments of humility (lowly).
I'd know much better how to love you
Believing that a slower personal transformation would facilitate a better understanding of how to love the person.
If I could change more slowly
Repeated expression of the desire for a slower pace of personal change.
Between lightning and lowly
Reiteration of the contrast between intense and humble moments.
I'd know much better how to love you
Stressing that a slower personal transformation would enhance the ability to love the person.
Know much better how to love you
Reaffirming the desire to know how to love the person better.
Why do I ask you can't answer back
Expressing frustration about the inability to receive an answer or response from the person.
It's all for me everything I do
Implies that everything the speaker does is for their own benefit.
How to love you
Reiterating the desire to learn how to love the person.
If I could change more slowly
Desiring a slower pace of personal change or growth.
From lightning down to lowly
Referencing a shift from intense (lightning) to humble (lowly) states at a slower pace.
I'd know much better how to love you
Believing that a slower personal transformation would enable a better understanding of how to love the person.
If I could change more slowly
Repeating the desire for a slower pace of personal change or growth.
From lightning down to lowly
Referring again to a shift from intense (lightning) to humble (lowly) states at a slower pace.
I'd know much better how to love you
Stating that a slower personal transformation would enhance the ability to love the person.
Know much better how to love you
Reaffirming the desire to know how to love the person better.
If this is the last hour of my life
Contemplating forgiveness and acknowledging awareness even if this moment were the last in life.
I can forgive you and say that I knew
Expressing readiness to forgive and claiming an understanding of the person's actions.
How to love you
Reiterating the desire to learn how to love the person.
How to love you
Repeated expression of the desire to know how to love the person better.
How to love you
Further repetition emphasizing the desire to understand how to love the person.
How to love you
Continued emphasis on the desire to learn how to love the person better.
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