Tonight, Tonight

This song is absolutely brilliant. I like to think of it as describing the night two people truly fall in love...the kind of love you only see in movies anymore.

"Time is never time at all" - When you're in love,you lose all sense of time because you, in a way, exist in a world completely separate from the physical earth (in the sense that when your lover walks into the room everything else disappears, someone can scream your name at the top of their lungs and you won't hear them because you are thinking about/with that one person, etc.)

"You can never, ever leave without leaving a piece of youth" - When you truly fall in love, it is like taking a giant leap into adulthood...and leaving a huge piece of who you were and of your youth behind.

"And our lives are forever changed, we will never be the same...the more you change the less you feel" - falling in love changes you in so many ways; you become so intertwined with that person that it is impossible to tell where they end and you begin. However, at the same time, you have to keep a grasp on your sense-of-self because you can't completely rely on another person to feel for you.

"Believe, believe in me, believe that life can change, that you're not stuck in vain we're not the same, we're different tonight tonight, so bright tonight" - You have to hold complete and total faith in someone in order to trust them with your soul...most often, true love pops out without warning and when you are least expecting it, so you can't sit around waiting for something to happen all of the sudden, but you have to believe that it will.

"And you know you're never sure but you're sure you could be right if you held yourself up to the light." - Powerful love can be extremely frightening, often forcing the lovers to question if what they are getting into is okay. But quickly they realize that as long as they are together and stay true to who they are individually, they can do anything.

"And the embers never fade in your city by the lake the place where you were born." - Falling in love/losing your virginity to the person that you will spend the rest of your life with is in a sense like being born into a completely new skin. You will always have the memory of the passion and importance of those moments, and the place where they occured.

"Believe, believe in me, believe in the resolute urgency of now and if you believe there's not a chance tonight tonight, so bright tonight." - You have to except the term "falling" in love. It is often not a gradual thing. One moment, you might have a deep affection for the person in question, but you can turn around the next and you love them completely. It is as though something clicks in your brain and there's no turning back (not that you would ever want to!).

"Wee'll crucify the insincere tonight we'll make things right, we'll feel it all tonight we'll find a way to offer up the night tonight the indescribable moments of your life tonight the impossible is possible tonight believe in me as i believe in you, tonight...tonight!" -This basically sums up the feeling of falling in love...though I've tried, it cannot be fully described to or understood by anyone who has not experienced a love of this depth and bredth.