This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
i live off love
i feed off love
i breathe off love
i think of love
i drink of love
i sink in love
and in the middle of the night i need my love
i need to grieve and need to need and be in love
my love is gonna come to me
tonight
i give my love and all my love to you, my love
i feast on love, a beast for love, release my love
you're scared and unprepared for love, don't care my love
cause youre the only woman i've been dreaming of
i swear to god i'm loving you for life
i swear to god i'm making you my wife
and if you ever leave me
i never will be sore
i'll love you 'til you're lonely
then i'll love you some more just before
ohh..
beauty beauty beauty, there's nobody near me,
there never was
beauty beauty beauty, there's nobody near me,
there never was.
i feed off love
i breathe off love
i think of love
i drink of love
i sink in love
and in the middle of the night i need my love
i need to grieve and need to need and be in love
my love is gonna come to me
tonight
i give my love and all my love to you, my love
i feast on love, a beast for love, release my love
you're scared and unprepared for love, don't care my love
cause youre the only woman i've been dreaming of
i swear to god i'm loving you for life
i swear to god i'm making you my wife
and if you ever leave me
i never will be sore
i'll love you 'til you're lonely
then i'll love you some more just before
ohh..
beauty beauty beauty, there's nobody near me,
there never was
beauty beauty beauty, there's nobody near me,
there never was.
Lyrics submitted by lethological, edited by stagnate
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The only way I can rationalize that this song has no comments is to say that it's too beautiful for words. But regardless, I adore this song.
This is the kind of song I could get drunk off of.
It's about truly being in love. For all of it's pleasures and perils.
But i've never understood those last lines..."beauty beauty beauty, there's nobody near me, there never was"?
how i interpret is that the girl doesn't love him back and so "there's nobody near me, there never was" is kind of like saying that being in love and lonely is a horrible kind of beauty. very bittersweet. but that's only my interpretation.
"i swear to god i'm loving you for that" should be "i swear to god i'm loving you for life"
This is more prosaic than rockerbabe's interpretation, but I understand "beauty, beauty, beauty, there's nobody near me, there never was," as the narrator addressing the woman he's singing about. She's the beauty, and he's telling her that he's alone and unattached, so they're free to be together. I kind of sense a warm smile in his voice when he sings that part, so that's why I think the ending is just sweet rather than bittersweet.
@Uranium yoy are absolutely right
i believe the song is about a man who loves because he loves to be in love. he loves the action of love and all its consuming powers, though he is not in love with a specific individual. i agree completely with the idea of unattachment, but not so that he can commit to someone... singing "beauty, there's nobody near me, there never was" shows his commitment as a lover of love, no strings attached.
it took me a long while to finally come to this conclusion. i used to think it was the sweetest song of devotion and trust. but really, its about the lies people allow themselves to feel when they believe someone is truly in love with them when, really, they never were.
it should be:
i swear to god i'm loving you for LIFE i swear to god i'm making you my wife
"And if you ever leave me, I never will be soft"
Without a doubt what he is saying in those last lines beauty beauty beauty, there's nobody near me, there never was beauty beauty beauty, there's nobody near me, there never was. HE is saying that he's never seen anyone as beautiful as she is