This song amazed me from the start. If you hear it, it's so simple and yet so intense at the same time. I think, unlike the first comment, that Darren isn't talking about his partner while saying that she was just "somebody to hold". On the contrary.
When I discovered it in 2003 I couldn't listen to it without getting emotional...and that was because I found myself in a period of time alone for the first time in ages, and I just did felt abandoned. I felt like I was nothing to those people who seemed to love me so much. He seemed to be singing to me..."conjure you up in my mind"...thinking every night when you go to bed about that one you've lost)
So I believe this song is about changing...watching sadly how you grow more and more apart from those that used to be your beloved ones (a lover, friends)...seeing how you don't know each other anymore, you are just too far apart, physically and emotionally ("do you remember, you were a part of my life": meaning that the person was so important to him once...but he/she seems to have forgotten that)...and you can't go back because you both are already different people with others around you.
I think Darren regrets some of his steps in the past, saying that maybe it contributed to ruin that relationship...And he finds himself wondering if it was worth it, since he has not found anyone else and still would give anything to get that relationship back...but that's impossible, and it's only in his head, probably like this song, he must not have said this openly to the person's face.
I personally took it very deeply because in a way I felt that I gave almost my all studying these years in college...and it was me who first got apart...and I often find myself wondering if it was the right choice...commiting the best years of my life to it.
This song amazed me from the start. If you hear it, it's so simple and yet so intense at the same time. I think, unlike the first comment, that Darren isn't talking about his partner while saying that she was just "somebody to hold". On the contrary. When I discovered it in 2003 I couldn't listen to it without getting emotional...and that was because I found myself in a period of time alone for the first time in ages, and I just did felt abandoned. I felt like I was nothing to those people who seemed to love me so much. He seemed to be singing to me..."conjure you up in my mind"...thinking every night when you go to bed about that one you've lost) So I believe this song is about changing...watching sadly how you grow more and more apart from those that used to be your beloved ones (a lover, friends)...seeing how you don't know each other anymore, you are just too far apart, physically and emotionally ("do you remember, you were a part of my life": meaning that the person was so important to him once...but he/she seems to have forgotten that)...and you can't go back because you both are already different people with others around you. I think Darren regrets some of his steps in the past, saying that maybe it contributed to ruin that relationship...And he finds himself wondering if it was worth it, since he has not found anyone else and still would give anything to get that relationship back...but that's impossible, and it's only in his head, probably like this song, he must not have said this openly to the person's face. I personally took it very deeply because in a way I felt that I gave almost my all studying these years in college...and it was me who first got apart...and I often find myself wondering if it was the right choice...commiting the best years of my life to it.