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Maxwell – Fistful of Tears Lyrics 15 years ago
I'll explain verse by verse.

Feels just like a weight has lifted
How can I repay you?
Help me understand, currency, a fistful of tears; I can afford.

I'm assuming she's just broken up with him so he's being sarcastic saying how can I repay you for finally ending this relationship because the only thing I can afford is tears.

Fight of your life is not the cost
Time will reveal
All along you're the one who's losing

He's basically saying that trying to argue and fight him to stay with her is not "worth" it (the cost )because in the end she's only pushing him further away and without realizing it, although she's winning the arguments she's not really winning because she's losing him.

'Cause I.. I go insane, crazy sometimes,
Trying to keep you from losing your mind
Open your eyes,
See what's in front of your face
Save me my fistful of tears

Again, further explaining how she's pushing him away when he's only trying to be with her. She's hurting him so bad (emotionally) and she doesn't even realize it, so he's saying open your eyes and look at what you're doing to me.


You can make it disappear girl
All you gotta do is just raise up, face up, stay up
All things will heal,
We'll feel it with a kiss from the skies
Don't you let it go
Don't you let it go

He's saying she can make these problems they have go away if she just realize that they don't have a healthy relationship. (i.e All you gotta do is just raise up, face up, stay up. Basically meaning grow up, face the problems and work them out.) He's wants her to just try to fix things for the sake of their relationship.

We gon' fight the war, we gon' fight our fears
The only thing I wanna throw is a fistful of tears
We gon' fight the war, we gon 'fight our fears
The only thing I gotta throw is a fistful of tears
We gon' fight the war, we gon' fight our fears
The only thing I wanna throw is a fistful of tears

Their problems in the relationship could be a number of things but most likely she's probably just a very negative person that accuses him of cheating or something. So he's saying we can fight this war together, we don't have to be afraid to love each other.(fight our fears). And also saying that he doesn't want to ever hurt her if anything the only thing he wants to do is throw is his tears ( get rid of them ).

I sooooo love this song! Great lyrics that actually make you think! Hope I helped. :)


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