Will You Remember? Lyrics
For some reason this song always brings tears to my eyes. It's poignancy maybe.
Me too. I love this band. Wonder why all songs have almost no comments.
The song's about how Dolores wonders if her ex-lover remembers her.The song can also be about Dol's wedding day.Whichever you chose.
It's about a bitter end
Reminds me of my Prom.
its about a girl losing her virginity on prom night he wont remember her and she wont care to remember anything about the night. She will just always love him in vain because he took a part of her.
I don't think so. Maybe black limousines and bunches of flowers, even champaigne, are in use on prom nights in US, maybe even in Ireland too, I don't know. But "future we planned" and "things that we swore" seem to bring to your mind wedding rather than a ball for students. To me, it's clearly a wedding song. But the punchline confuses me, because when Cranberries recorded it, Dolores and Don were just about two years married and I doubt she did sense then, that something was going wrong. And the lyric sounds like if a narrator was ex-wife. Maybe it...
I don't think so. Maybe black limousines and bunches of flowers, even champaigne, are in use on prom nights in US, maybe even in Ireland too, I don't know. But "future we planned" and "things that we swore" seem to bring to your mind wedding rather than a ball for students. To me, it's clearly a wedding song. But the punchline confuses me, because when Cranberries recorded it, Dolores and Don were just about two years married and I doubt she did sense then, that something was going wrong. And the lyric sounds like if a narrator was ex-wife. Maybe it was about some other couple, a friends for example, whose relationship did disintegrate. Or maybe she wrote it having a depressive phase and thinking he didn't love her anymore? Who knows? The song is also very interesting musically. It sounds like an funfair tune or musical-box, or a song from an old vaudeville. Sometimes makes me think of "Girl With No Eyes" by David LaFlamme & It's A Beautifil Day.
Considering the rest of the album deals with death, loss, remembering and the grieving process, I think it's safe to say this song was inspired by the fact that she was thinking about a departed loved one so much in her daily life that she's dreaming about the person. Perhaps she missed the person so much, she desperately wanted to see them again, and this carries over into her dreams. It has nothing to do with sex or previous romantic relationships.
The album was dedicated to their manager who died. He also happened to be the guy that got them into the business professionally. Also, Dolores' grandfather died around this time, whom I understand she was very close to.
I know her voice is sexy but there is nothing sexual about this album. It's an intimate, personal album, but not like that. It's a brilliant album and yet it's so sad when you really listen to the lyrics, listen to it from start to finish and know a little of the history that surrounds it's making.