I love this song I think it is perhaps one of my favorite songs she has ever written, it is very deep and meaningful, it describes a state in a lot of people realationships fall into, in which people begin a relationship with hopes and dreams and as time goes on the magic fades away.
Shakira is a genius, she begins the song with the lines, "Once upon a time" which always refers to fairytales in which people live happily ever after. She does this to describes the state of mind young couples are in, in which everythign is perfect. She then goes on to describe the couple as green and easy, fresh as limes and happy as the sunday sky. All this meaining the couple is young, filled with happiness. Shakira remembers when the couple had no worries and would do thing like stare at the ceiling while lying together, how the word stress would sound odd to them because they had no worries and how they spoke very little english to imply that they have gone very far from that time.
Throughout the song shakira questions her lover and what has happened to those days. Shakira presents her relationship as one in which the things they have gone through have made them rough and jadded. Love although it exists seems to lack the magic it had before and things are no longer about dreaming but they are now grown people where they have to turn those dreams into plans so they can't live in the carefree world where they can just worry about it the next day, the world in which their hopes are now fears they will not succeed and so on and so forth.
Shakira then confesses to her lover that if this situation hurts her and perhaps their current state is in someway her fault. She does this by instead of using "we" in the chorus she uses "I"
This is truly one of Shakira's best songs, I know people that are in the same position described in the song will closely relate to it and love it.
I love this song I think it is perhaps one of my favorite songs she has ever written, it is very deep and meaningful, it describes a state in a lot of people realationships fall into, in which people begin a relationship with hopes and dreams and as time goes on the magic fades away.
Shakira is a genius, she begins the song with the lines, "Once upon a time" which always refers to fairytales in which people live happily ever after. She does this to describes the state of mind young couples are in, in which everythign is perfect. She then goes on to describe the couple as green and easy, fresh as limes and happy as the sunday sky. All this meaining the couple is young, filled with happiness. Shakira remembers when the couple had no worries and would do thing like stare at the ceiling while lying together, how the word stress would sound odd to them because they had no worries and how they spoke very little english to imply that they have gone very far from that time.
Throughout the song shakira questions her lover and what has happened to those days. Shakira presents her relationship as one in which the things they have gone through have made them rough and jadded. Love although it exists seems to lack the magic it had before and things are no longer about dreaming but they are now grown people where they have to turn those dreams into plans so they can't live in the carefree world where they can just worry about it the next day, the world in which their hopes are now fears they will not succeed and so on and so forth.
Shakira then confesses to her lover that if this situation hurts her and perhaps their current state is in someway her fault. She does this by instead of using "we" in the chorus she uses "I"
This is truly one of Shakira's best songs, I know people that are in the same position described in the song will closely relate to it and love it.