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It occurred to me at once that love could be a great illusion
That makes fools of brilliant thinkers everyday
And sends hearts of stone and steel to a place where they would feel like they were falling falling quickly in its wake
Oh, falling falling quickly in its wake
Is it any surprise that you feel so over-run?
When all this time you had no one to tell you how to love
And do you think it's unwise to go and break yourself on this one?
When all this time you didn’t know love, you didn’t know love, you didn’t know love
You didn’t know love
It occurred to me at once that love gets everything it asks for
Like a young girl picking flowers in the lawn
She gets every kiss and tear
She gets every smile and fear
But still she never finds the last of them is gone
Oh, she never finds the last of them is gone
[Is it any surprise that you feel so over-run?
When all this time you had no one to tell you how to love
And do you think it's unwise to go and break yourself on this one?
When all this time you didn’t know love, didn’t know love, didn’t know love
You didn’t know love] (3x)
That makes fools of brilliant thinkers everyday
And sends hearts of stone and steel to a place where they would feel like they were falling falling quickly in its wake
Oh, falling falling quickly in its wake
Is it any surprise that you feel so over-run?
When all this time you had no one to tell you how to love
And do you think it's unwise to go and break yourself on this one?
When all this time you didn’t know love, you didn’t know love, you didn’t know love
You didn’t know love
It occurred to me at once that love gets everything it asks for
Like a young girl picking flowers in the lawn
She gets every kiss and tear
She gets every smile and fear
But still she never finds the last of them is gone
Oh, she never finds the last of them is gone
[Is it any surprise that you feel so over-run?
When all this time you had no one to tell you how to love
And do you think it's unwise to go and break yourself on this one?
When all this time you didn’t know love, didn’t know love, didn’t know love
You didn’t know love] (3x)
Lyrics submitted by spectabilis
Track duration: 05:31
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it first verse explains how love can be very complex.
the chorus explains how love is be overwhelming and makes us fragile. "do you think it's unwise to go and break yourself on this one?" to me, it can be unwise to let yourself love yet be heartbroken, but it is also an important growing experience. it's humbling that you do not know love. As a brilliant thinker becomes a fool, s/he turns to simplicity described in
the second verse, describing a purer love: it is generous, enduring both good and bad.
that they are wary of the true love that's blossoming (And do you think it's unwise to go and break
yourself on this one? When all this time you didn't know love). He's basically saying "You are scared
of loving me because of the past but you didn't have true love until now."
Like a young girl picking flowers in the lawn
She gets every kiss and tear
She gets every smile and fear
But still she never finds the last of them is gone
Oh, she never finds the last of them is gone"
love is naive, very much like a young girl...
when a person gets love, they want all the wonderful feelings that comes with it...but with love, you get everything else too...every kiss and every smile...and every smile and every fear.
and yet, like this little girl who picks and picks these flowers, you never stop looking and picking for it...like how her flowers never seem to disappear.
and the rest of the song...it seems to be about someone who has never known love and has no earthly idea how to handle all the emotions and everything that comes along with REALLY falling in love.
like when you are young and naive, you think you are "in love" with someone and then you get devastated when you two break up, but you later on realize, or maybe someone else realizes it then, that you were never really in love.
it's complex, but it's totally beautiful. aaron's lyrics are just absolutely perfect.
I think it's about a man, who has been told how to do stuff for most of his life, and he didn't believe in love, but then when he found himself falling in love he couldn't take it.
"Is it any surprise that you feel so over-run?
When all this time you had no one to tell you how to love"
And this song is absolutely beautiful. Copeland is perfect. :]
The first verse talks about its power to hurt even the strongest and smartest people.
The second verse talks about how people who are loved get everything they want by those who love them, but they take it for granted.
Then the chorus is actually directly "comforting" the heartbroken person, telling them that they shouldn't feel like a failure since they didn't know what they were doing. "Do you think it's unwise to go and break yourself on this one?" may be telling the person not to blame themselves.
Since the person didn't know what love is and didn't know what he/she was doing, the verse explain to them what love is.