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No Dream Can Heal A Broken Heart Lyrics
My dream, it seems, fails to see the mornings
My one and only aim
I hear you breathe, I'm not alone in the darkness
I feel something on my lips I should not
One, too many poison kisses
And I'm drowning in the deepest sea
I found my destiny, something I'm here for
I'm knocking on my heaven's door
One day we will run out of tomorrows
And yesterday's become the stuff our dreams are made of
Until today, I lived in the shadow world
Now heart is speaking, brain's defeated
Independent thought deleted...
One too many poisoned kisses...
And I'm drowning in your deepest sea
I found my destiny, something I'm here for...
I'm knockin' on my heaven's door.
And the map to find my sleeping wishes
Is hidden where I cannot see
When I'm awake, I need your poison kisses
To fall back in a living dream...
"Why do you fear to long for my love, please be strong.
If your heart can hear a song, you can't go wrong...
So repose your trust in me, save this love, live and see
If the life beyond this dream is what you seek..."
"Fill your deepest wishes,
Come take my poison kisses
Life is too short, this golden hour lats for a lifetime..."
Give me your poison kiss,
Now, come night, I need my sleeping wish
Help me dream again, somehow kiss me now
With your poisoned lips
Oh, come night, I want my missing wish
Help me get one kiss, somehow
Hold me now
No dream can heal a broken heart...
When we're apart...
...On the sea of wishes
My dream that no one misses
Tears me apart, always somehow
Goodbye love...
My one and only aim
I hear you breathe, I'm not alone in the darkness
I feel something on my lips I should not
And I'm drowning in the deepest sea
I found my destiny, something I'm here for
I'm knocking on my heaven's door
And yesterday's become the stuff our dreams are made of
Now heart is speaking, brain's defeated
Independent thought deleted...
And I'm drowning in your deepest sea
I found my destiny, something I'm here for...
I'm knockin' on my heaven's door.
Is hidden where I cannot see
When I'm awake, I need your poison kisses
To fall back in a living dream...
If your heart can hear a song, you can't go wrong...
So repose your trust in me, save this love, live and see
If the life beyond this dream is what you seek..."
Come take my poison kisses
Life is too short, this golden hour lats for a lifetime..."
Now, come night, I need my sleeping wish
Help me dream again, somehow kiss me now
Oh, come night, I want my missing wish
Help me get one kiss, somehow
Hold me now
When we're apart...
My dream that no one misses
Tears me apart, always somehow
Goodbye love...
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stuffrokz03 On Sep 15, 2009
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Alright, let's give this a go.
My dream, it seems, fails to see the mornings My one and only aim I hear you breathe, I'm not alone in the darkness I feel something on my lips I should not
The narrator is telling us about how he is in love with this girl, and only sees her in his dreams, but they never come true. Having his dream of being with her is his only goal in life. In his dream his girl kisses him, but he knows that he shouldn't let her.
One, too many poison kisses And I'm drowning in the deepest sea I found my destiny, something I'm here for I'm knocking on my heaven's door
He refers to the kisses as poison because he knows that nothing but hurt is going to come from them, and he's just hurting them. He describes his pain as "drowning in the deepest sea". He has found true love in this girl though, and says it's his destiny and he's going to get it.
One day we will run out of tomorrows And yesterday's become the stuff our dreams are made of
Ok, here I think he's talking to the girl he loves, who clearly doesn't love him back, and he's trying to convince her to be with him by telling her that soon, there will be no more time to be with anyone else, and he wants to dream about all the things they'd do as a couple.
Until today, I lived in the shadow world Now heart is speaking, brain's defeated Independent thought deleted...
Here I think he wins the girl back, although she doesn't feel as strong for him like he does to her. Here we also see something that can be seen a lot in real life situations. He is so in love with her, but he knows that being with her will only cause him pain in the end, which is brain is telling him, however his love for her is too strong, so it blocks out the warnings his brain is telling him.
One too many poisoned kisses... And I'm drowning in your deepest sea I found my destiny, something I'm here for... I'm knockin' on my heaven's door.
And the map to find my sleeping wishes Is hidden where I cannot see When I'm awake, I need your poison kisses To fall back in a living dream...
Alright, here the narrator is wanting to know what he has to do to win his love back for good, or "map" if you will. When he awakes from his dreams about her he is realizing that it is all fake, and he needs her "poison kisses" or lies, to calm himself down and continue living his "dream".
"Why do you fear to long for my love, please be strong. If your heart can hear a song, you can't go wrong... So repose your trust in me, save this love, live and see If the life beyond this dream is what you seek..."
Here it's his love speaking. She's telling him to be strong in his feelings for her. That if he can hear a "song" when he sees her then he's found the right one. I'm guessing the love betrayed the lover, which he why they broke up, and now she's telling him to trust her again. And then the last line she tells him that once he dies, he'll be able to live his dream with her.
"Fill your deepest wishes, Come take my poison kisses Life is too short, this golden hour lats for a lifetime..."
Here she's telling him to futfill his dreams by taking her kisses, which she knows shes giving him falsely. Even though it's false he should enjoy it because he'll have the memories, even if it hurts.
Give me your poison kiss, Now, come night, I need my sleeping wish Help me dream again, somehow kiss me now
He's asking her to send him into a sleep with her kiss, so that he can dream about her.
With your poisoned lips Oh, come night, I want my missing wish Help me get one kiss, somehow Hold me now
No dream can heal a broken heart... When we're apart...
Ok, here he finally comes out and admits that his dreams are not true, and that all she's doing to him is hurting him, and it broke his heart. By "when we're apart" he means that when they're not together in a relationship, not just physically in the same room which i'm sure some people will think it as.
...On the sea of wishes My dream that no one misses Tears me apart, always somehow Goodbye love...
Again, he's saying how his dreams are great, and he wishes that they could become reality and he could be with his love, but all it does is hurt him and break his heart further. At the end he simply says goodbye to her, perhaps for forever.
No offense, but I believe your interpretation to be mostly wrong.
No offense, but I believe your interpretation to be mostly wrong.
Let's look at the first few sections...
Let's look at the first few sections...
"My dream, it seems, fails to see the mornings My one and only aim I hear you breathe, I'm not alone in the darkness I feel something on my lips I should not"
"My dream, it seems, fails to see the mornings My one and only aim I hear you breathe, I'm not alone in the darkness I feel something on my lips I should not"
In this section, he seems hesitant or anticipatory, rather than happy. With the way I read this, I think his dream - his one and only aim - is to find true love. However, he wakes up, and the reality is, he's with a girl who doesn't...
In this section, he seems hesitant or anticipatory, rather than happy. With the way I read this, I think his dream - his one and only aim - is to find true love. However, he wakes up, and the reality is, he's with a girl who doesn't love him. When she kisses him, he feels 'something on [his] lips [he] should not.' This leads me to believe she is a taken woman - possibly married - and she's having an affair with him.
"One, too many poison kisses And I'm drowning in the deepest sea I found my destiny, something I'm here for I'm knocking on my heaven's door
One day we will run out of tomorrows And yesterday's become the stuff our dreams are made of"
He seems to be in love with this woman, even though she's taken. A few kisses, and he seems to forget that he cared - he's drowning in her deepest sea (Lyrics say 'the,' but he sings 'your') - and he's enjoying it. He feels as though he's died and gone to heaven, as the cliche goes (He makes it more interesting, thankfully).
For the second section there, he's basically saying that he knows it will come to an end sometime soon. She'll leave him for her boyfriend/husband, and he'll enjoy the memories of their fling.
"Until today, I lived in the shadow world Now heart is speaking, brain's defeated Independent thought deleted..."
It's quite possible, as denoted by the first line, that they just recently began their affair. Until recently, he was in the dark about how being with her would be. However, he's grown emotionally attached to her (Or at least, physically attached, and he's confusing it for love). He knows that what he is doing with her is wrong, but ignores it - instead of thinking with his head, he thinks with his 'heart.'
"One too many poisoned kisses... And I'm drowning in your deepest sea I found my destiny, something I'm here for... I'm knockin' on my heaven's door.
And the map to find my sleeping wishes Is hidden where I cannot see When I'm awake, I need your poison kisses To fall back in a living dream..."
For that first section, a recap of before. For the second part, he's trying to figure out how to make her fall in love with her, and leave her boyfriend/husband for him. He thinks he is truly in love with her - His sleeping wish is to have her be his, but she's not his, so he's looking for the way to make her his. When he's awake, he needs her body to fool himself into thinking she is his.
""Why do you fear to long for my love, please be strong. If your heart can hear a song, you can't go wrong... So repose your trust in me, save this love, live and see If the life beyond this dream is what you seek..."
"Fill your deepest wishes, Come take my poison kisses Life is too short, this golden hour lats for a lifetime...""
He fears loving her, because she's taken. She's asking him why he's afraid to try to get her to love him (To which the answer is probably because he fears getting hurt). She seems to be promising him she'll leave whomever she's with already - She's leading him on. She then instructs him to love her (Fill your deepest wishes) and to continue their affair (Come, take my poison kisses), and she knows that it will be a short-lived relationship, but says they should make the best of it while they share a bed (This golden hour lasts for a lifetime; the 'Golden hour' is how long the relationship will go, and the 'Lifetime' is how long it will feel like).
"Give me your poison kiss, Now, come night, I need my sleeping wish Help me dream again, somehow kiss me now
With your poisoned lips Oh, come night, I want my missing wish Help me get one kiss, somehow Hold me now
No dream can heal a broken heart... When we're apart..."
By the tone of the song, and his singing, it denotes that the affair is ending now. He's fallen for her ruse once more, and thinks they are in love and such. However, they are beginning to distance, and he's becoming desperate for her (I need my sleeping wish; I want my missing wish).
It hurts him that they are distancing. He thinks she was the one for him. He also believes they were in love. He thinks no other woman can do him justice ('No dream can heal a broken heart' is saying that even if he does find true love, it won't matter, because she's not in love with him).
"...On the sea of wishes My dream that no one misses Tears me apart, always somehow Goodbye love... "
At this point, their 'break-up' is finalized. She has moved on, and doesn't miss him (Is probably having an affair with someone else), and now he can't find anyone like her. It's killing him that they are over, and he says his final goodbye.
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That's my take on things. He was the victim (Albeit, willingly) rather than her. We agree on that. However, the reasoning and such is where we seem to differ.
You're right in the fact that we both agree that he's the victim. Our reasoning is different, but both of them makes sense. But that's what I love about Sonata songs, you can interpret them in whatever way that lets you connect to the song. My interpretation, for example, strikes home in the way that I heard it, which is the plausible reasoning for how I took it.
You're right in the fact that we both agree that he's the victim. Our reasoning is different, but both of them makes sense. But that's what I love about Sonata songs, you can interpret them in whatever way that lets you connect to the song. My interpretation, for example, strikes home in the way that I heard it, which is the plausible reasoning for how I took it.
As you nicely said, SA songs are great because you can interpret them the way you want. As an exemple, I see a shy guy in love, a guy don't want to express his feelings. He would rather dream about her than tell her what he feels. It changes there:
As you nicely said, SA songs are great because you can interpret them the way you want. As an exemple, I see a shy guy in love, a guy don't want to express his feelings. He would rather dream about her than tell her what he feels. It changes there:
"Until today, I lived in the shadow world Now heart is speaking, brain's defeated Independent thought deleted..."
"Until today, I lived in the shadow world Now heart is speaking, brain's defeated Independent thought deleted..."
To me it's very clear, since I felt this way not a long time ago. Your brain tells you that it won't work, that she's too good (or too bad) for...
To me it's very clear, since I felt this way not a long time ago. Your brain tells you that it won't work, that she's too good (or too bad) for you, that you shouldn't waste your time etc. while the heart tells you want to tell her so much that you're burning yourself to the ground. So in my opinion, he said "to hell with the brain, now I go berzerk and I'll get what I want"
When I think about it, I see a relation where the guy hides himself because he's afraid that she wouldn't like him if he spoke. Maybe he's a sensitive guy while she's a "bad girl". Maybe she's a whore (poison kisses... she 's paid for them). The kisses make him feel like he's in his dreams where everything is perfect.
At the end he realise that these dreams are nothign but illusions. I'm not sure if he keep resisting though o0
Anyway, it dosen't always make sense. But as a fact, I love that song
Amazing song, one of my favorites from the cd.
I hear a sort of orintal sound in the beginning. and after listening to it, i have a sort of theory:
theres a guy whoes in love with a girl in his past. she rejected him long ago. flash to the present. he found her again, but shes now a callgirl. he indulges his broken dream, but it won't heal his heart now. the poisin kiss(es) might refer to some sort of disease she now has. the love will kill him/her or something.
I'm in love with Johanna Kurkela's (the female) voice in this song. i get shivers when i hear her (just wish it went longer!).
great song.
This song especially strikes me deep.
It seems to me like this girl was the guy's loved one but she died. She keeps living in his dreams, where they're together, symbolically denoted as kissing. Though her appearance in his dreams keeps him attached and he can't let go.
In the part where she's speaking, she tells him not to be afraid of loving her, and that he should keep her love with him and move on (as in, live the life beyond the dream). When he does that, the dreams start to fade although he still wants to dream about her, get one last kiss.
I absolutely love this song!
I pretty much agree with Stryfe14's point of view, though I see things in a bit different way:
Basically, the song is about a guy who was in a relationship, which is now over - probably she dumped him, or they just couldn't be together anymore. The thing is he still loves the girl, and being apart is too painful for him.
He's so emotionally wrecked about the goodbye that he starts to dream about her, leaving racionality behind ( 'Now heart is speaking, brain's defeated' ) and somehow creates a new reality (in his dreams) where they are together again. Even though it
s very hurtful for him to wake up and find it was nothing but a dream, thats the way he chose to ease his pain.''One day we will run out of tomorrows And yesterday's become the stuff our dreams are made of'' He just can`t foresee a future without his love, so he dreams about the past when they were happy together.
''No dream can heal a broken heart... When we're apart...'' Actually it was only when i read this final lines that dawned on me that he was dreaming about the whole thing.
This song is absolutely amazing. Tony is way too brilliant! He can make sad songs sound so beautiful..
In a reply to a comment, RyuheiAoi said that this song is about a woman who is leading a man on but she is married. The man knows of this but he loves her that much he can't turn away.
I have just came from a simular sort of situation and fell in love with this woman who was married. She promised me the world, and that her husband treat her wrong and beat on her. Hearing the stories made me fall for her. But one day she cut ties with me saying she fealt guilty. I understood and admit that I wa shurt by it, but 6 months later she got back in touch with me saying she regretted cutting ties and wanted to be with me and not him.
I was a little reluctant at first and though she was full on towards me I started falling for her again. But he found out about us and she went back to him leaving me once again.
I can totally relate to this song as no matter how much you can dream about a person, when you wake your heart still aches for them.
Like myself he followed his heart and not his head which has brought him pain like he feared he would feel.
I feel that this songs means that this guy is in love with this girl. they were together but split because things didn't work. He still loves her but he knows that being with her again is wrong. So because he is in love with her he dreams of her and him having a good time, but he knows its wrong. "I feel something on my lips i should not." And when he talks to her he talks with his heart instead of his brain. "Now heart is speaking, brain's defeated Independent thought deleted." So because he talks with his heart he finds it hard to say no to her. It seems that she wants him back and she wants him to trust her but he doesn't (probably because of the break-up) "Why do you fear to long for my love, please be strong. If your heart can hear a song, you can't go wrong... So repose your trust in me, save this love, live and see If the life beyond this dream is what you seek..." He misses her and wants her back dearly, but again knows that its wrong. his dreams may make him happy while he sleeps but when he wakes up, it immediately turns into a deep depression. Therefore, no dream can heal a broken heart.