In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Hearts go astray, keeping hurt when they go
I went away just when you needed me so
You won't regret I'll come back beggin' you
Don't you forget
Welcome love we once knew, yeah
Open up your eyes
Then you'll realize
Here I stand with my
Everlasting love
Need you by my side
Come and be my pride
You'll never be denied
Everlasting love
From the very start
Open up your heart
Feel the love you've got
Everlasting love
This love will last forever
This love will last forever
Hearts gone astray
Keeping up when they go
I went away
Just when you needed me so
You won't regret it
I'll come back begging you
Don't you forget
Welcome love we once knew, yeah
When life really flows
No one really knows
The sun will have to show them
Everlasting love
Like the sun it shines
Endlessly it shines
You always will be mine
Eternal love
Whenever love went wrong
Ours would still be strong
We'd have our own
Everlasting love
This love will last forever
This love will last forever
Open up your eyes
Then you'll realize
Here I stand with my
Everlasting love
Need you by my side
Come and be my pride
Never be denied
Everlasting love
From the very start
Open up your heart
Feel the love you've got
Everlasting love
Everlasting love
Everlasting love
Everlasting love
Everlasting love
I went away just when you needed me so
You won't regret I'll come back beggin' you
Don't you forget
Welcome love we once knew, yeah
Open up your eyes
Then you'll realize
Here I stand with my
Everlasting love
Need you by my side
Come and be my pride
You'll never be denied
Everlasting love
From the very start
Open up your heart
Feel the love you've got
Everlasting love
This love will last forever
This love will last forever
Hearts gone astray
Keeping up when they go
I went away
Just when you needed me so
You won't regret it
I'll come back begging you
Don't you forget
Welcome love we once knew, yeah
When life really flows
No one really knows
The sun will have to show them
Everlasting love
Like the sun it shines
Endlessly it shines
You always will be mine
Eternal love
Whenever love went wrong
Ours would still be strong
We'd have our own
Everlasting love
This love will last forever
This love will last forever
Open up your eyes
Then you'll realize
Here I stand with my
Everlasting love
Need you by my side
Come and be my pride
Never be denied
Everlasting love
From the very start
Open up your heart
Feel the love you've got
Everlasting love
Everlasting love
Everlasting love
Everlasting love
Everlasting love
Lyrics submitted by yuri_sucupira
Everlasting Love Lyrics as written by Buzz Cason Mac Gayden
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Capitol CMG Publishing, Songtrust Ave, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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this is a kick-ass cover song! The song, if you must REALLY know, it's about everlasting love(duh) and how it is...okay so my explaination sucks really bad but I sitll like this song....
I think its about a guy who wasn't there for the girl he loved when she really needed him and he's realised the error of his ways and is begging her to accept his love for her again and forgive him.
Did you know this song was used for the trailer for the movie Wimbledon with Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst? Really good cover in my opinion, the guitar is very good, makes it sound rather happy!
The original is by Love Affair, a British pop band of the '60s. I like both versions of it.
this song has been covered three million other times, but done by U2 i find it OK. all the other versions, including the original, are annoying to me (sorry :D) i still do not like the song, but somehow it seems a bit better done by U2.
I think U2 has done the best cover of this song. The guitar in it just makes me smile!
I absolutely love this song! I think this is one of U2's best even though it's a cover, and the guitars sound great.
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My dad once made fun of me because for a time I was thoght that U2 wrote this song but I looked it up and found that some one else had wrote it, so to poke fun at me my dad said, "That was a good cover that and their cover of 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For.'" After he said that I waited a minute and said, "Hay! They wrote that song, I think..." My dad nearly laughed out of his set.