Love Love Love

to me it's funny that apparently everyone who has commented here tends to think that it is about a girl who somehow broke a guy's heart because of the first part of the song. but then i realized that my interpretation of this song has a lot to do with who i am (and certainly it happens to everyone)

i don't see someone who broke another person's heart, i see someone who simply can't love, or doesn't know how to deal with this thing. maybe because it's a new thing to him/her, or maybe because he/she is affraid of getting hurt. the "almost"-loved-one knows about the mixed feelings this person is going through. maybe this person's indecision hurts the "loved one" in some way... maybe not. i don't know if what i say here makes any sense to anyone, but to me the song is about how confusing love can be, and not necessarily about breaking someone's heart.

For me, the song is about a person (let's say a she) who is in a complex situation — maybe she is in a relationship or another situation, that makes her unable to return the love, even though she somehow wants to. She doesn't want to end the relationship or situation she's in, but it still hurts because she cares so much more than she is able to show to the person. "So I think it's best we both forget before we dwell on it" — it's best that they leave it all, because if they don't, she'll give in to it.

It's about brake-up betwen two people that felt love. Time passes away, but we still miss them. But we have to move on. When we find the person we could heal, we are still trying to forget the first love. This songs tell how she can't be with him, and she still misses him. And at the end she is aware, that they will never be together.♥

Everyone is going to have a slightly different idea, so here's mine. I was thinking of someone who is in love, and knows that they are loved by that person as well, but can't love them. Like an arranged marriage sort of deal. I don't know, that's just what I thought when I first heard the lyrics.

A song about someone who can't return love, even though they would like to.

I like to imagine this is as the song written by the girl who broke Bon Iver's heart (see: Skinny Love)

This is the same meaning as Cherrelle's "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On"

This is what a lot of women, especially younger kind-hearted women, struggle to say to men.

She's saying she doesn't feel the same way about him as he does her, and she's feels really bad about breaking his heart.

Been there, ended badly... Am there, will probably end badly.

Alright, so.

This song is about a woman who broke up with a man because she didn't love him This is set up in the first verse:

"Maybe I'm a crook for stealing your heart away" She stole his heart, they fell in love. "And maybe I'm a crook for not caring for it" She threw his heart away when she left him. "And maybe I'm a bad, bad, bad, bad person/Well baby, I know" She acknowledges that she hurt him.

In the second verse, she realizes she'll never get to touch or hold him again like they did when they were lovers.

"And these fingertips, they'll never run through your skin Those bright blue eyes can only meet mine across a room Filled with people that are less important than you"

"Filled with people less important that you" is said with a sense of frustration and longing, but not in a 'the world is keeping us apart' way. Rather, her frustration stems from her inability to share his love. See the chorus?

"Because you love, love, love when you know I can't love You love, love, love when you know I can't love You love, love, love when you know I can't love," With each repeat, she grows more frustrated. She is angry at him for loving her so much, and she is angry at herself for feeling nothing towards him.

"So I think it's best we both forget before we dwell on it The way you held me so tight all through the night 'til it was near morning"

Again, she reminisces on the time they shared and his unfaltering love for her.

"Because you love, love, love when you know I can't love You love, love, love when you know I can't love You love, love, love when you know I can't love, you" the last chorus is the highest vocal point of the song. She reaches the tip of her frustration. The outro is a kind of catharsis.

Imagine seeing your ex at a party on the other side of the room. They stare up at you, and you share a fleeting moment of longing. You can feel a tug in the pit of your stomach.

I imagine this song to happen in such a moment.

But I digress.

Well, maybe I'm a crook for stealing your heart away And maybe I'm a crook for not caring for it And maybe I'm a bad, bad, bad, bad person Well baby, I know.

These paragraph talks about how the things started between them. It was the author/lyricist who came to that person, "you", the lover of our story. The paragraph talk about the sayings of the lover, all his blame towards the author, and the author accepting that it was her(as the song was sang by a female) fault and paraphrasing every of his words. The lover claimed that it was her who came to him and took his heart away from his body. I know it was him who fell, but the remained for her. He lived through that organ, but the heart breathed because of her soul. So it was the author who metaphorically ran this organ. Now the lover is blaming she could not care it well, it is wounded and is now bleeding with pain. In anger, the lover exclaims that she is a bad person, the same person who had his heart for so long. The exaggeration from the author of repeating "bad" four times along with the "I know" shows her acceptance.

And these fingertips, they'll never run through your skin And those bright blue eyes can only meet mine across a room Filled with people that are less important than you

She loved him "fingertips running through your(his) skin" too but not in the way he did, not with the same passion he did And those bright blue eyes can only meet mine across a room filled with people that are less important than you….one of best line of the whole song, she felt the warmth of those eyes, the priority, the possessiveness it had. She knew that it was not just an infatuation, but the feelings he felt had greater depths, "Because you love, love, love when you know I can't love." She couldn’t take that love any further. It can be that it was not possible for the author to love him exactly, because of the last "you" she claimed in the second line after the pause…. You love, love, love when you know I can't love. You love, love, love when you know I can't love, you It could also be that she came to him in her lowest state for his support and in the healing process, he fell in love with her and still she is not being able to completely heal up from her past, thus can't continue deeper into him. He was so special to her that she did not want to lose him and go through that feeling again.

To consolidate him, she said "it's best we both forget before we dwell on it" ……dwell on it….and the "we"……the memories and his feelings and hers….she is thinking that it would help themselves. The pause that came afterwards in the songs, she understood those memories could never be erased, or should never be undone "The way you held me so tight all through the night…..'Till it was near morning" But when her contemplation ended the lines came back Because you love, love, love when you know I can't love You love, love, love when you know I can't love You love, love, love when you know I can't love, you

We all feel and fall, some of us express it, some of us hide it. They hide it because none of us want to get hurt again. The lover supported the author when she needed his help, and they both love each other, but the way they perceive it is very different. They both are aware of the differences, but none of them can help.

I think it's remarkable to see that Nanna wrote this song, since Ragnar gets so emotional on all of the live footage from this song (especially the kexp sessions) This creates the thought that the song definately has some personal connection for Ragnar, which leaves to wonder whether Nanna wrote this just about Ragnars life, or whether it's about her life as well, and it's about a possible past they shared, though I believe it's the formal