To me, I feel as though in the beginning of the song, the guy and the girl have a relationship that is fading. They are still together, but the girl is sort of drifting away from him and is exploring her other possibilities in the world, whereas the guy, has let this relationship become the biggest/only part of his life, and it has really taken control of him. The girl wants more though, more than the deep love that they did have before. Even though she still has feelings for him, she realizes now she can't stay with him, she wants more in life. She wants to leave, but doesn't know how to do it or what to say, because she has fallen in love with him before and she doesn't know where her love for him has gone. But she knows it's gone.
So, on her return, from a trip I suppose, she kind of just falls back into the relationsip, because it what she is used to. It may not be the same, but it's effortless for her to keep going with the guy, even though she no longer loves him the way that she used to. She makes up words to songs, or the love, she used to know. She knows that she'll hurt the guy when she leaves, so it's hard for her, and it's just making things worse in the relationship. That's why there's the slightest change in the second verse to "setting sun," because she see's their relationship as fading away.
So one day she decides that she can no longer take it and just sort of departs in a way that she believes will hurt her lost lover the least, by just taking the flight away and leaving him a note. He finds it and reads it and is just broken hearted.
The whole point of the song is sort of how a lover can still love and care for the person they leave, when they know they must go, when they know that they want more than the relationship they have, even though it may be good. Or I guess that's the way I see it based on my past relationships.
I welcome input as this song is really moving. |
