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What Now My Love Lyrics
What now my love, now that you left me
How can I live through another day
Watching my dreams turn into ashes
And all my hopes into bits of clay
Once I could see, once I could feel
Now I'm numb, I've become unreal
I walk the night, oh, without a goal
Stripped of my heart, my soul
What now my love, now that it's over
I feel the world closing in on me
Here comes the stars tumbling around me
And there's the sky where the sea should be
What now my love, now that you're gone
I'd be a fool to go on and on
No one would care, no one would cry
If I should live or die
What now my love, now there is nothing
Only my last goodbye
Only my last goodbye
How can I live through another day
Watching my dreams turn into ashes
And all my hopes into bits of clay
Once I could see, once I could feel
Now I'm numb, I've become unreal
Stripped of my heart, my soul
What now my love, now that it's over
I feel the world closing in on me
Here comes the stars tumbling around me
And there's the sky where the sea should be
I'd be a fool to go on and on
No one would care, no one would cry
If I should live or die
Only my last goodbye
Only my last goodbye
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At first, I thought this song was about a guy who was being melodramatic about a breakup...then it gets to the end, and it’s clear it’s a suicide note. Boy, that lady is gonna feel guilty for the rest of her life. Elvis’ version perfectly captures the emotion of the song. The despair is heard in his voice. How did he do that, with nearly all his songs, esp. when singing live? With the passion he put in them, you’d think he was the one that wrote them.
@ileatrekkie Exactly, and I firmly believe that most fans somehow tune out just how suicidal this powerful song is in its essence [been there, done that, so to speak, and thus skipped listening to it for a long while, i.e. a year+], like on a subconscious level, them tuning out its severity. The end note reminds me of an Elvis documentary where Bono, speaking of his last ever performance of Unchained Melody said something about how incredible his voice always was "...and in the end, he did opera.", which is spot on 'cause Pavarotti at his greatest is the only...
@ileatrekkie Exactly, and I firmly believe that most fans somehow tune out just how suicidal this powerful song is in its essence [been there, done that, so to speak, and thus skipped listening to it for a long while, i.e. a year+], like on a subconscious level, them tuning out its severity. The end note reminds me of an Elvis documentary where Bono, speaking of his last ever performance of Unchained Melody said something about how incredible his voice always was "...and in the end, he did opera.", which is spot on 'cause Pavarotti at his greatest is the only one I'm reminded of when it comes to this amount of audible and emotional power.