This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Look out of your window any day
From June to September the love parade's
Out on the street where you live and you know
It's just a matter of time before it takes over
They've been married for so many years
Now a young love serenade blows sweet nothing in her ear
They're lonely together, when they're not apart
It feels like she's holding on to someone else in the dark
Oh the love parade is on
Even against all odds
It'll go on forever
The love parade
The love parade
Only matinee shows
The love parade
But if he could put himself into a different skin
He'd be worrying about what he's let himself in for
Hanging in, the heir apparent
A point of view almost transparent
So you sold your soul for a pocket full of sweet talk
Forget-me-not kisses at the end of a slow walk
And when it's done you put your world back on
'Cause she's otherwise engaged, married to someone
Oh the love parade goes on
Even when you're gone
It'll go on forever
The love parade
The love parade
Only matinee shows
The love parade
Everybody loves
The love parade
Married to someone
Married to someone, woah
Everybody knows
Everybody, everybody
Everywhere knows
That's the way
How it goes
But this is dedicated to the one I love
To the one I love
This is dedicated, this is dedicated
To the one I love, to the one I love
We meet every day, the same cafe (this is dedicated)
To the one I love
This is dedicated, this is dedicated
To the one I love, to the one I love
This is dedicated, this is dedicated
To the one I love, to the one I love
We meet every day, the same cafe (this is dedicated)
To the one I love
This is dedicated, this is dedicated
To the one I love, to the one I love
From June to September the love parade's
Out on the street where you live and you know
It's just a matter of time before it takes over
They've been married for so many years
Now a young love serenade blows sweet nothing in her ear
They're lonely together, when they're not apart
It feels like she's holding on to someone else in the dark
Oh the love parade is on
Even against all odds
It'll go on forever
The love parade
The love parade
Only matinee shows
The love parade
But if he could put himself into a different skin
He'd be worrying about what he's let himself in for
Hanging in, the heir apparent
A point of view almost transparent
So you sold your soul for a pocket full of sweet talk
Forget-me-not kisses at the end of a slow walk
And when it's done you put your world back on
'Cause she's otherwise engaged, married to someone
Oh the love parade goes on
Even when you're gone
It'll go on forever
The love parade
The love parade
Only matinee shows
The love parade
Everybody loves
The love parade
Married to someone
Married to someone, woah
Everybody knows
Everybody, everybody
Everywhere knows
That's the way
How it goes
But this is dedicated to the one I love
To the one I love
This is dedicated, this is dedicated
To the one I love, to the one I love
We meet every day, the same cafe (this is dedicated)
To the one I love
This is dedicated, this is dedicated
To the one I love, to the one I love
This is dedicated, this is dedicated
To the one I love, to the one I love
We meet every day, the same cafe (this is dedicated)
To the one I love
This is dedicated, this is dedicated
To the one I love, to the one I love
Lyrics submitted by fletch699, edited by MichaelLinder
The Love Parade Lyrics as written by Nick Laird-clowes Gilbert Gabriel
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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In this song, he sits out by his window and watches 'The Love Parade" go by, and dreams what the passing people are thinking about.
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The elderly woman who's been 'married for so many years', hears a song that wistfully reminds her of her younger days when she was less lonely by herself! Wow! That hurts!
Then He MUST not doubt or express his doubts or else she will leave him for someone else. Is that the only reason he stays with her?! Sounds like it!
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