This song brought tears to my eyes when I first heard it.. I guess you had to have been in the situation to fully grasp the meaning of what the Abba were trying to say..This song is about a couple who were so much in love but suddenly, one of them felt, it is still too early for a serious commitment..s/he wanted to explore life more, see more people, and expeience what they did not yet.So this person had to call things off, thinking it was for the best of the couple (realistically for her own selfish best). And they break up. Time passes and she starts getting what this whole life is about and she knows how stupid she was to let go of her true love. She regrets what she did, she cries, she spends the nights lonely wishing for a miracle to happen and nothing happens of course. Even if he knew, it is too late usually. Not because his feelings would have changed (could be the case), but because time changes people and no matter how connected they arein the heart, one's outlook to life, experiences and everyday happenings just make us new evolving people every day. It's like the poem of Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken".
This song brought tears to my eyes when I first heard it.. I guess you had to have been in the situation to fully grasp the meaning of what the Abba were trying to say..This song is about a couple who were so much in love but suddenly, one of them felt, it is still too early for a serious commitment..s/he wanted to explore life more, see more people, and expeience what they did not yet.So this person had to call things off, thinking it was for the best of the couple (realistically for her own selfish best). And they break up. Time passes and she starts getting what this whole life is about and she knows how stupid she was to let go of her true love. She regrets what she did, she cries, she spends the nights lonely wishing for a miracle to happen and nothing happens of course. Even if he knew, it is too late usually. Not because his feelings would have changed (could be the case), but because time changes people and no matter how connected they arein the heart, one's outlook to life, experiences and everyday happenings just make us new evolving people every day. It's like the poem of Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken".