And Love Said No

Personally I see this song in the form of Love playing a cruel joke on a person who's deeply in love with someone he/she can't exactly have.

The first verse is explaining the layout of the story (we'll go with a male for now as the hopeless romantic). He has finally found his match, but sadly for reasons unknown he can't have her. "Love lies cruel" means that he feels like Love has pulled a nasty joke on his heart, making him feel the way he does for this other person. He realized over time that there was no hope of this love happening. Maybe they were together before, who knows.

The chorus then explains that since he can't have the person he yearns for, he feels that Love will become the death of him. He pleads for death but he simply can't bring himself to it. He doesn't feel right on this earth, and would prefer to die than go on feeling the way he does.

The second verse shows that apathy is settling in. Since he has no hope, the love he had for this person is buried deep in his heart which he refers to as an icy tomb. No love, no reason to have a kind, caring heart. Love had made this person notice him as another cruel joke (Love's violent tune, from me to you..), but without that kind, loving heart inside of him, there's no reason to feel love for him so this person gives up on that thought.

In the end where it goes, "Love's light blue took me from you, and at that moment I knew that I was out of hope again," I believe that this is portraying the end of a tragedy. The man has become apathetic in his loss of hope for love, and the person he yearned for walked away without a second thought. He feels that love returning upon realizing that she walked away, but it's too late and there's no longer hope for that love.

I might be wrong, but that is what I pulled from the lyrics and I can strongly relate to this.

I think its about surviving from love...Love destroys people, but somehow they suvive... Very beautiful!...Same as every Valos song...Many people find themselves in them

This is one of the new songs off of the And Love Said No CD, (Along with Solitary Man). This is just another wonderful song to add to the collection of all of the great HIM songs out there. There's also suppose to be a video for this song in the near future.

This is one of my favorite HIM songs. As to what the song's about, And the name says it all.

i absolutly love this song it is my favorite song and it is hims best singles yet...a must for the true him fan

Finally a new song that can match their older ones. This one is awesome.

I red an interview with Ville Valo a few days ago where he said that this song is the most personal to him at the moment. And "that the lyrics we're a story about a relationship that doesn't work that well. About losing all hope about the future when it comes to love & romance, but in some way find the right person in the end of the tunnel.." [I translated it from swedish] Well, what Valo said is how I see the lyrics & the song. Glad that I understood it :)..

melts Valo is a sexy piece of fucking ass.. and so is this song <3

Just put "she" or "he" where it says love... and I do have to agree with Valo this is the fucking saddest and best song ever done by him... I was in the fucking music store with a girl i like and i just about cried i had to stop it and run out... its the best song ever

AAARRRRGGGGHHHH This fucking song is on the radio all the time at work. It makes me want to jump out of a window, it is just that wank.