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A little light looks through her bedroom window.
She dances and I dream, she's not so far as she seems,
Of brighter meadows, melting sunsets,
Her hair blowing in the breeze.
And she can't see me watching.
And I'm thinking love...
love....
love....
love....
It's bittersweet, more sweet than bitter, Bitter than sweet.
It's a bittersweet surrender.
I'm older now.
I work in the city.
We live together.. But it's different from my dream.
Morning light fills the room. I rise.
She pretends she's sleeping.
Are we everything we wanted?
And i'm thinking love...
love...
love...
love...
It's bittersweet, more sweet than bitter, Bitter than sweet.
It's a bittersweet surrender.
I know we don't talk about it.
We don't tell each other.
All the little things that we need.
We work our way around each other.
As we tremble and we bleed.
It's bittersweet, more sweet than bitter, Bitter than sweet.
It's a bittersweet surrender.
She dances and I dream, she's not so far as she seems,
Of brighter meadows, melting sunsets,
Her hair blowing in the breeze.
And she can't see me watching.
And I'm thinking love...
love....
love....
love....
It's a bittersweet surrender.
I work in the city.
We live together.. But it's different from my dream.
Morning light fills the room. I rise.
She pretends she's sleeping.
Are we everything we wanted?
And i'm thinking love...
love...
love...
love...
It's a bittersweet surrender.
We don't tell each other.
All the little things that we need.
We work our way around each other.
As we tremble and we bleed.
It's a bittersweet surrender.
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Submitted by
angelofbradley1 On Jun 04, 2004
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This song is about marriage or at least a long-term relationship. The first verse was when he first knew her before they were even together, and speaks about catching a glimpse of her dancing where she did not know he was watching. He implies that she is far away in the sense that they have no relationship, but he wishes for more. He was falling in love, and had visions of them being together in the future happy in the sunset/meadow/breeze.
Then he fast forwards in his life (I'm older now), talks of living in the city (implicating that in the past they lived in the suburbs, maybe she was his neighbor even?) and that they live together. At some point between verse 1 and 2, they came together.
But things are different than he had originally dreamed. He wakes up in the morning and she pretends to be sleeping. I can relate to this, because my wife and I met when we were very young (16 years ago) and we have been married for 10 years now, with 3 children. I wake up in the mornings early to go to work, and although she hears me rise, she isn't jumping out of bed to see me off to work like she once did when our relationship was still new (she even used to make breakfast for me). Reality has set in, and life and marriage is more bittersweet now. With jobs, and children, you can sometimes become more like business partners than two people madly in love.
This song reminds me of marriage. It all exicting and fun in the beginning. Later you realize that it isn't easy. It requires work. You have to decide if you are going to do the work. It isn't all fun...there is a lot of things that are bitter. You have to find the balance...more sweet than bitter (you hope)
I became turned on to BHT by a friend and fellow bartender in Bar Harbor, Maine way back in 1996,..he went to school in Boulder, Colorado,..so he knew a lot about them. This song gave me chills,..each version,..I've heard like 4 or 5 versions. At the time, I was in the relationship being described in so many ways. We went to beer bar in Portland, and I struck up a convo with an older, very attractive lady, Mary,..who was married to some rich lawyer/state congressman,..her marriage wasn't lasting.....she wanted to go out to the airport and make out (I'm not kidding...lol)...we left the bar and got in her red BMW,..and guess which song was playing on her stereo....very once in a lifetime type of thing...awesome stuff!!
Makes me think of all those old country couples in my extended family. The love they share loses its passion, but burns steady through the years. They wouldn't know a life without the other.
This song is about the progression of a long term relationship. When they were first together it was like a dream for him. As time moves on reality has set it, but he still loves her (more sweet than bitter). But he has accepted the fact that it is not perfect. We all go through that at some point.
Who hasn’t been there? Romance is 1% of a long term relationship, then reality sets in. That’s why you gotta make sure your partner has something upstairs, because that’s the real 99% of the relationship. Your partner ain’t got nothing up there - you f*cked.
Well, this song is about the way a relationship starts in the beginning. You see her in your dreams, and you want to make the dream real. The reality finally comes, and now you can't wait to wake up out of it because it's not what it seems. It's a slow death of a relationship, dodging the questions and situations while going throught the motions. We've all been there, and it's more bitter than sweet.
buffstuff34 - I totally agree with your interpretation of this song. Ironically enough, it was a girl who introduced me to BHTM that the song applies to (although she turned out to be BIG trouble!!). The relationship starts out as a dream, almost a mythic quality, you're intoxicated with the possibilities, the idea of being in love... Then, as each day passes your forced to accept this person as they really are, not your projection of them. Then, as reality sets in, you begin to question the relationship and whether or not this person is "the one" - each day...
buffstuff34 - I totally agree with your interpretation of this song. Ironically enough, it was a girl who introduced me to BHTM that the song applies to (although she turned out to be BIG trouble!!). The relationship starts out as a dream, almost a mythic quality, you're intoxicated with the possibilities, the idea of being in love... Then, as each day passes your forced to accept this person as they really are, not your projection of them. Then, as reality sets in, you begin to question the relationship and whether or not this person is "the one" - each day passes, your disillusionment grows, you start thinking about being on your own, then one day it ends!
I think this song is about a man who has met a girl who is different from all other girl's he's ever met. He thinks that he loves her but he doesn't know if he's ready to change. He's conflicted. What if he changes and it is not true love? Or what if he changes and it is true love? Will it be everything he thought it would be in his dreams? Either way, it's a bittersweet surrender. Should he surrender to love or should he surrender to Fear? That's just the way I see it...doesn't mean I'm right.
i think that more people should listen to this song!!!
I always thought that it would have been better in the second section to have lie, lie, lie, lie.
When she asks have we everything we wanted, after many years together he realizes that he is stuck, unhappy, and has to lie and say yes.
in the early years, he loves, but later in life, has to lie about the "love" and happiness