| Conjure One – Endless Dream Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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There is a strong message here about the fleeting nature of everything in this world. Due to this impermanence, life itself can be thought of as a dream because all that seems valid and real eventually becomes merely a faint memory. Yet there’s one thing that at times leaves a permanent imprint on our souls, and that thing is love. The person in the song uses ‘dream’ as metaphor for a past relationship, where two people were so in love, they felt united as one in mind, body and spirit. Those powerful feelings carried them beyond this world, as if high on a drug-induced ‘trip.’ Then something happened, as it often does, and the relationship fell apart. The first stanza holds some clues as to what caused the split. ”…you were falling from the world…in orbit around me…” means that the lover (let’s suppose he’s male) was so infatuated, that the narrator became the center of his universe. And “…terrified to look at me and see yourself” may mean that then he was suddenly taken aback by that level of codependency, realizing he is losing his own identity. In psychology of love and attachment, there’s a theory that most relationships go through a phase of enmeshment in the beginning, where they are inseparable and feel as one, looking for things in common to unite them further. After that, comes the separation-individuation phase, where people start differentiating from each other as to regain their sense of individuality. However, what drove them apart is actually irrelevant, as the fundamental theme here is the narrator’s certainty that her lover won’t ever find love like theirs again, and neither will she. So they lead their separate lives, but in their minds, they keep going back to that old ‘dream’ because of the growing awareness that their love as a sanctuary of comfort and happiness that cannot be found anywhere else. |
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