its amazing how far music can come.. 24 years after it released and its one of the most heartfelt songs ive heard
If I lost it all in a fireball
Would you be there for me?
If the money's gone and the future falls
Would you walk away?
'Cause my confidence is vanishing
Will you leave me starving here
To wither down and disappear
As you walk away?
Then just let me go, let me live
Just leave me alone
Buried here next to love on my own
I'll never trust, never feel, never love again
With this bitter taste in mind
They always say true love is all you need
But when true love is gone can we go on?
They say true love would never leave
But my true love is gone and I can't go on
I'm in the catacombs of a broken heart
Where you used to be when I loved you for
All the reasons that you hated yourself
'Cause you were desperate and pathetic
But just as beautiful to me as the day you left
And I became just a memory
Let me go, let me live
Just leave me to lay buried here next to love on my own
I'll never trust, never feel, never love again
With just this bitter taste in mind
They always say true love is all you need
But when true love is gone can we go on? They say true love would never leave
But my true love is gone and I can't go on
Now it's two am and I'm picturing the way things used to be
But all I see is you looking at him like you used to look at me
They always say true love is all you need
But when true love is gone can we go on?
They say true love would never leave
But my true love is gone and I can't go on
I can't go on
Would you be there for me?
If the money's gone and the future falls
Would you walk away?
'Cause my confidence is vanishing
Will you leave me starving here
To wither down and disappear
As you walk away?
Then just let me go, let me live
Just leave me alone
Buried here next to love on my own
I'll never trust, never feel, never love again
With this bitter taste in mind
They always say true love is all you need
But when true love is gone can we go on?
They say true love would never leave
But my true love is gone and I can't go on
I'm in the catacombs of a broken heart
Where you used to be when I loved you for
All the reasons that you hated yourself
'Cause you were desperate and pathetic
But just as beautiful to me as the day you left
And I became just a memory
Let me go, let me live
Just leave me to lay buried here next to love on my own
I'll never trust, never feel, never love again
With just this bitter taste in mind
They always say true love is all you need
But when true love is gone can we go on? They say true love would never leave
But my true love is gone and I can't go on
Now it's two am and I'm picturing the way things used to be
But all I see is you looking at him like you used to look at me
They always say true love is all you need
But when true love is gone can we go on?
They say true love would never leave
But my true love is gone and I can't go on
I can't go on
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awatts5 is right. :)
So the song. Well, at first its basically saying that the main character is wondering if him and his lover's love will go on through the thick and the bad.
'If the money's gone and the future falls Would you walk away?'
The answer, it seems, is yes. So their love is dead and the main character wants to go (die) with it. So he whines about if he can survive when the love ius dead and then he thinks about before their love.
So, before they went out the main character's lover was heart broken and now he realizes he is in the same place: (I'm in the catacombs of a broken heart- Where you used to be.) When 'she' was in these 'catacombs' he loved her and he still does. (Cause you were desperate and pathetic But just as beautiful to me as the day you left And I became just a memory.)
So, now we know that his lover left him for somebody else: (But all I see is you looking at him like you used to look at me)
So it sux for him.