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Lovely Tonight Lyrics

I need you to know
This won't be broken
And all that we said
Will not be lost into the dawn

And you would be
The last thing I saw coming
I'm still surprised

You are lovely tonight
You, dear, will guide me
Into the morning light
You are lovely tonight
Lay here beside me
I see the rest of my life
With you

Alone we are fine
But when we are two
We are eternal
The moons aligned
Our separate lives
Here become one

And you would be
The last thing I saw coming
I'm still surprised

You are lovely tonight
You, dear, will guide me
Into the morning light
You are lovely tonight
Lay here beside me
I see the rest of my life
With you

All my life I've lived alone without you
All this time, I couldn't find where to belong

And you are lovely tonight
You, dear, will guide me
Into the morning light
You are lovely tonight
Lay here beside me
I see the rest of my life
With you
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shrodes On Feb 08, 2008
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Cover art for Lovely Tonight lyrics by Joshua Radin

Okay, so who wants to explain to me why he uses the conditional "you would be" instead of the indicative "you are"? That's the one thing that bothers me about this song.

Cover art for Lovely Tonight lyrics by Joshua Radin

so, i could be way off, but i think it is about a hopeful lover. all the things one hopes to find in a person, which explains the "you would be." implying that the eventual lover will be surprising, but all the things he's written for her...

however; the "i'm still surprised" is still throwing me on that meaning, so, i'm just not entirely sure!

i think the surprised represents the surprise of falling in love with someone. when you're surprised at not only who it is, but how amazing it is.

Cover art for Lovely Tonight lyrics by Joshua Radin

Imo. It's about a person who finds love in an unexpected person, i.e. an old friend and just realizing it.

Cover art for Lovely Tonight lyrics by Joshua Radin

this song was played at a friends funeral =[

it's beautiful. i love josh. he's very talented.

Cover art for Lovely Tonight lyrics by Joshua Radin

I love this song. I think it would be a great wedding song...

"Our separate lives here become one." "I see the rest of my life with you."

Beautiful song.

it was my dads wedding song that he just had earlier this month :)

Cover art for Lovely Tonight lyrics by Joshua Radin

Yeah, I think this song is about a 'hopeful-lover', maybe someone unexpected... Probably someone you know that you won't get though.

Cover art for Lovely Tonight lyrics by Joshua Radin

My future wedding song. <3

Cover art for Lovely Tonight lyrics by Joshua Radin

I think he's wondering about a relationship that can't happen - so he's saying if things were different, you would be everything, but just for now, you are lovely tonight. And that is enough.

Cover art for Lovely Tonight lyrics by Joshua Radin

In fact, I think this song is following a conversation that they had - so he fell in love with her, then told her how he felt and she said that they couldn't be together. So the song is saying "We would have been perfect - but it's ok, because we can be friends"

I just think the first verse says this.

I need you to know This won't be broken And all that we said Will not be lost into the dawn

And you would be The last thing I saw coming I'm still surprised

 
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