Something About You

I find it very moving, as well, and a beautiful song. But, I've always thought of it as a song between a still-together couple; maybe he's singing to a long-time mate, saying, "maybe we're not so in love anymore, but it's ok, we're together and I can't be away from you." Sweet, though not the popular, happily-ever-after view of love.

I suppose I'm the only one moved by this one...it is so evocative to me of a former love, someone about whome you once cared deeply, and how love can pass yet affection and pleasant memories can linger... one-hit wonders, sure... but I still like this song.

I think it is about a couple who are still together. They may have grown apart ,gone thru ups and downs and the years have changed them but he still find there is something about her that keeps him in the relationship.Something about her that despite all the wrongs is right.

Great song about a couple that is still together. Even though the "spark" is gone, they still love each other, and he stays. It's a truly beautiful song, because instead of all the phony "happily ever after" songs out there.... this one paints a more realistic picture of love in real life. Sometimes drab, and boring, but still real, and that's what matters.

This is a great song with its deep lyrics and and catchy tune. I think the story of this song has to do with neither an ex nor a couple who have been in a long relationship, even though the lyrics aren't inconsistent with either of those readings.

Rather, I read it as a referring to a pair who have maintained a "platonic" relationship for the duration of their having known each other, but the speaker recognizes that, for him at least (and likely for both), the relationship was and is much more. I take the verse that mentions being "...tender together, if not so in love..." as indicating a barrier that prevents the two from realizing a romantic relationship (perhaps his object of affection is now married). Yet after all these "changing years," he decides that it's time he "told the truth," where in the (correct) lyrics he finally makes his bombshell confession to her, in the second round of the chorus, "Don't want to be be here without you," and not just "Couldn't be here without you" which he acknowledges in the first round of the chorus.

I think this is about a man and a woman who have been friends for a long time, perhaps too shy or afraid to admit their feelings for each other. So he continues on, spending time with her when they can, sort of dying inside that he can't bring himself to tell her face-to-face how he feels. I can imagine fights and fallings out at times, both knowing how they feel but hampered by the inability to express their true feelings.

Beautifl, thought-evoking song with a wonderful message. This came up in my Pandora rotation and it reminded me of my first love (always has because we broke up around the time it was released) though I never paid attention to the lyrics until now. This song is definitely about a couple that's still together after a period of time has passed. The relationship dynamics have changed but there is still fondness and caring, and a longing for what was, which is "human." Here's what they're saying...

"If ever our love was concealed No one can say that we didn't feel A million things and a perfect dream of life Gone, fragile but free We remain tender together If not so in love It's not so wrong We're only human after all

These changing years They add to your confusion Oh and you need to hear The time that told the truth

Because there's something about you, baby, so right I couldn't live without you, baby, tonight"

Most songs are really nothing but metaphors or parables. if you can find the meaning to then, it is then a deeper conclusion. i like to write poems in metaphors or parables. and test those that can find the meaning to them. there are always clues to them, although some faint. this one is not so faint. yes... there is a love but with troubles, mishaps -after all we are only human. but that "something about you" is real and there that is why i am with you. something, about you that i love.

Apparently, this guy is not over his ex, who's already with another man. He still has feelings, although he made a mistake and now wants her back but can't have her. It is tearing him apart basically.

Its a song about a couple who once were deeply in love and planned to live a life together but later the girl left the guy because the guy was not stable financially. Many years later , in her luxurious life with another man, she discovers she's still longing for her ex. And the ex knows this and also finds it hard to resist her now despite him having a new relationship. . If to err is human, then doing the wrong thing (affair) now which feels so right, is it then forgiven? is the question.