Dear Loretta
Dear Loretta: A Soul's Plea for Redemption and Connection
Lyrics
Dear Loretta
Addressing someone named Loretta, setting the tone for a personal communication.
Why do you hang your head down so low
Questioning why Loretta appears sad or discouraged.
I wish you would grow
Expressing a desire for Loretta to grow or improve her situation.
I've seen pictures
Acknowledging awareness of images depicting Loretta's future life, expressing discomfort with them.
Of your life in the next and I don't like them
Disliking the portrayed future, suggesting a shared sentiment with Loretta.
Any more than you
Affirming a mutual discomfort with the depicted future.
So just hold true
Encouraging Loretta to stay true to herself.
We'll see this through
Expressing commitment to support Loretta through challenges.
I've held sorrow
Sharing personal experience of enduring sorrow over an extended period.
For as long as I can see in the past
Reflecting on a prolonged history of sorrow in the speaker's life.
I hope this won't last
Expressing hope that the current difficult situation will not persist.
Don't grow cold now
Advising Loretta not to become emotionally distant or indifferent.
For it's warm out there just come in
Encouraging Loretta to embrace warmth and comfort that is available.
You're wearing thin
Suggesting that Loretta is emotionally fragile or vulnerable.
Don't grow long
Advising against growing distant or emotionally detached.
I fear you're gone
Expressing fear or concern that Loretta might be gone or lost.
Now you are wanting and I am waiting for something better to come along
Describing a current state of desire in Loretta and waiting for a better opportunity or situation.
If we were younger we'd not be here trying to make it on our own
Reflecting on a hypothetical scenario where youth might have prevented the current struggle.
Now I am lonely and I am wandering looking for some place to roam
Conveying loneliness and a search for a sense of belonging or purpose.
If you'd only try dear we'd not be here trying to make it on our own
Highlighting the potential for improvement if Loretta makes an effort.
On our own own own
Repetition emphasizing the theme of being on one's own.
On our own own own
-So now I am left here cold and lonely lost without a single friend
Expressing a current state of coldness and loneliness due to the lack of friends.
And it seems the time's near for all we've waited to come back down here and lay to rest
Anticipating the end of a waiting period and the resolution of past struggles.
In all the years that there's been silence in those times I must confess
Reflecting on a period of silence and confessing to a sense of longing.
That if I stay here too much longer I will be out on my own
Contemplating leaving the current situation if it persists for too long.
On my own own own
Repetition underscoring the theme of being on one's own.
On my own own own
-Now I am hoping that someday maybe you will see that it's all for the best
Expressing hope that, in the future, Loretta will understand that current challenges are for the best.
If you cannot try dear then I'll just stay here and we'll lay this heart to rest
If Loretta cannot make an effort, the speaker is resigned to staying in the current difficult situation.
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