Speak Low
Whispers of Fleeting Love: Speak Low by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
Lyrics
Speak low when you speak love
Advocates speaking softly and discreetly when expressing love.
Our summer day withers away too soon, too soon
Reflects on the fleeting nature of a summer day, suggesting the brevity of happiness.
Speak low when you speak love
Reiterates the need for quiet expression in love due to the swiftness of their moment.
Our moment is swift, like ships adrift, we're swept apart, too soon
Compares their moment to ships adrift, emphasizing the sudden separation.
Speak low, darling, speak low
Encourages speaking softly in love, acknowledging the ephemeral nature of love.
Love is a spark, lost in the dark too soon, too soon.
Describes love as a spark easily lost in the darkness of life's challenges.
I feel wherever I go
Expresses a constant awareness of the proximity of tomorrow.
That tomorrow is near,
Conveys the imminence of the future.
Tomorrow is here and always too soon,
Highlights the persistent feeling that tomorrow always arrives too soon.
Time is so old and love so brief
Contrasts the oldness of time with the briefness of love.
Love is pure gold and time a thief.
Symbolizes love as precious gold and time as a thief stealing it away.
We're late, darling, we're late,
Expresses a sense of being behind schedule in the progression of their love.
The curtain descends, everything ends too soon, too soon.
Uses the metaphor of a descending curtain to signify the end of everything, implying the transience of life.
I wait, darling, I wait,
Expresses a patient waiting for the beloved, emphasizing the desire for a soft and loving response.
Will you speak low to me, speak love to me and soon
Requests the beloved to speak softly and express love soon.
I wait, darling, I wait,
Reiterates the theme of waiting for a tender expression of love.
Will you speak low to me,
Continues the plea for the beloved to speak softly and slowly.
Slow to me, oh please,
Asks the beloved to be deliberate and gentle in expressing love.
Just don't say no to me
Urges the beloved not to reject the speaker's request for love.
Let it flow to me, slow to me
Requests a continuous and gradual flow of love.
Soon, soon, soon,
Repeats the anticipation of love arriving soon.
Oh, soon, darling, speak low to me
Reiterates the plea for the beloved to speak softly and express love soon.
Darling, speak slow to me,
Extends the request for the beloved to speak slowly and tenderly.
Oh, oh, oh!
Expresses heightened emotion and eagerness for the beloved's soft words of love.
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