| Paul Westerberg – Love Untold Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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My initial reaction to the song was formed before I saw video. ‘Oh about a love untold It's a love untold’ First there are two definitions of “untold”. One is “existing or present in an amount that is too large to be measured”. The other is ‘an untold story has never been read or heard by the public’. In a way I think both are relevant to this song. It’s a song you are hearing, maybe for the first time, of this incredible love story. The singer presents himself as the observer of this incredible love story and asks us to identify with “the saddest love of all”. However, when he speaks of the difficulty in describing this situation you suddenly realize he is talking about himself and his unrequited greatest love of all. His final fadeout “We were goin’ meet” reveals who he was singing about. Fortunately, I didn’t see the video until today after all these years of listening to this song. Having seen it I wish I hadn’t. Rather than this singer/song writer’s observation on his own personal “love untold” the video presents it as a generic unrequited love collage that applies to all ages, though picturing the elderly couple meeting on a crummy little street seems a stretch. I don’t think Westerberg had in mind unrequited senior love. Maybe director Rocky Schenck applied his own “take” in the editing room. Anyway, it is a heartbreaker and along with "Chasing Cars" is streamed daily by yours truly. |
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