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San Francisco Lyrics
Well I've been in love with love
And the idea of
Something binding us together
You know that love is strong enough.
And I've seen time tell tales
About that systematic drug
Yeah, that heart that beats as one,
It's collectively, unconsciously composed.
I lost my head in San Francisco
Waiting for the fog to roll out
But I found it in a rain cloud, it was smiling down.
Do you feel the love, I feel the love.
C'mon, c'mon let's start it up,
Let it pour out of your soul.
And the idea of
Something binding us together
You know that love is strong enough.
And I've seen time tell tales
About that systematic drug
Yeah, that heart that beats as one,
It's collectively, unconsciously composed.
Waiting for the fog to roll out
But I found it in a rain cloud, it was smiling down.
Do you feel the love, I feel the love.
C'mon, c'mon let's start it up,
Let it pour out of your soul.
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This song definitely reminds me how San Francisco feels. If you ever visit the city, play this song and walk around with it on. It just matches perfectly.
However I believe the simple meaning of this song is that love is what brings us all together.
I believe this song is about embracing the feeling of love and letting yourself let lose and lose yourself every once in a while.
The beginning really shows the song’s main viewpoint on love, saying “I’ve been in love with love”, portraying that the person singing has been in love before and loves or is in love with the feeling. The next line says "something binding us together", really insinuating that love brings people together into a tight bond.
The song uses many metaphors, such as in the line "love is strong enough". Love doesn't really have any strength to it, at least not in the physical sense, but it is saying that love is powerful and effective enough to overall bring people together.
In the song, it also refers to that love is a "systematic drug", implying that in a way it is addictive, but is a common and basic reaction. However, the phrase could also be trying to convey the message that even though love is amazing and spectacular, you can not get wrapped up in it or it will consume you.
The rest of the first chorus basically sums up that main theme of the song, which is that love can bring people together. The line "that heart that beats as one", really shows this by saying that love can connect and link people in such a big way. The line "it's collectively unconsciously composed" is in a way saying that everyone is connected through love in a collective manner, but in a way that they may be unaware of.
Towards the middle of the song, the artists start to use many more metaphors and the lyrics really start to develop deeper meanings. A great metaphor is used in the first phrase of the song, saying "I lost my head in San Francisco", implying that the person has lost their mind and can't think straight. "Waiting for the fog to roll out", suggests that the person was waiting for his thoughts to become clear so he could think again, but waited too long and lost his original ideas or thoughts. The next line is "But I found it in a rain cloud, it was smiling down", somehow saying that the cloud could have been there all along, waiting over them and waiting for them to realize it had been there all along.
The next part of the song says "Do you feel the love? I feel the love", suggesting that the love is all around them, and they are initially asking if you feel it there too.
The last part of these verses is saying "let it pour out of your soul", essentially insinuating that the love is inside of you, and that all you have to do is to share and release it. It could also tie to the other versus, saying that the person had been looking for love all along and got lost trying to find it when they had it all along.
The rest of the song is repetitive, just saying the main lines over and over again in a catchy tune. Overall, the song has a main topic and focus on love, and how it is all around us and has the power to bring people together. It gives a great view of love and allows the listener to really understand the meaning and type of love the artists are trying to put across.
This song is about embracing the feeling of love and letting yourself let loose and losing yourself every once in a while.
The beginning really shows the song’s main viewpoint on love, saying “I’ve been in love with love”, portraying that the person singing has been in love before and loves or is in love with the feeling. The next line says "something binding us together", really insinuating that love brings people together into a tight bond.
The song uses many metaphors, such as in the line "love is strong enough". Love doesn't really have any strength to it, at least not in the physical sense, but it is saying that love is powerful and effective enough to overall bring people together.
In the song, it also refers to that love is a "systematic drug", implying that in a way it is addictive, but is a common and basic reaction. However, the phrase could also be trying to convey the message that even though love is amazing and spectacular, you can not get wrapped up in it or it will consume you.
The rest of the first chorus basically sums up that main theme of the song, which is that love can bring people together. The line "that heart that beats as one", really shows this by saying that love can connect and link people in such a big way. The line "it's collectively unconsciously composed" is in a way saying that everyone is connected through love in a collective manner, but in a way that they may be unaware of.
Towards the middle of the song, the artists start to use many more metaphors and the lyrics really start to develop deeper meanings. A great metaphor is used in the first phrase of the song, saying "I lost my head in San Francisco", implying that the person has lost their mind and can't think straight. "Waiting for the fog to roll out", suggests that the person was waiting for his thoughts to become clear so he could think again, but waited too long and lost his original ideas or thoughts. The next line is "But I found it in a rain cloud, it was smiling down", somehow saying that the cloud could have been there all along, waiting over them and waiting for them to realize it had been there all along.
The next part of the song says "Do you feel the love? I feel the love", suggesting that the love is all around them, and they are initially asking if you feel it there too.
The last part of these verses is saying "let it pour out of your soul", essentially insinuating that the love is inside of you, and that all you have to do is to share and release it. It could also tie to the other versus, saying that the person had been looking for love all along and got lost trying to find it when they had it all along.
The rest of the song is repetitive, just saying the main lines over and over again in a catchy tune. Overall, the song has a main topic and focus on love, and how it is all around us and has the power to bring people together. It gives a great view of love and allows the listener to really understand the meaning and type of love the artists are trying to put across.