This song interests me very much. I LOVE THIS SONG! I think it's because I can see it in a few different ways. It's probably because this is the level I can most relate on, but MY FAVORITE interpretation is as follows...
I think that the writer is just fed up with relationships and quite possibly the idea of love in general. He's tried it before, and judging by the lyrics--
"When you hold me like you do
It feels so right, oh now
Start to forget how my heart gets torn
When that hurt gets thrown"
--he always ends up hurt.
"Turning circles time again, it cut's like a knife."
It's a pattern. Sounds like he's got this routine of falling and getting hurt down to a science. Sooo sad!!
And this time, he's obviously fallen pretty hard, or is thinking about falling pretty hard, for someone new. When she holds him, it feels right. But he doesn't want to trust it. After all, the second he trusts it, he will open himself up to all kinds of vulnerability, and once again, he risks getting hurt. BUT I think he ultimately decides to risk feeling vulnerable again, and chaulks up his pride by saying, "this year's love- had better last."
I feel that saying this, to an extent, is talking himself into the pending relationship. I really do. After all, as UNFUN as getting hurt can be, he realizes it's nothing he hasn't dealt with before. Life goes on.
"So whose to worry
If our hearts get torn
When that hurt gets thrown
Don't you know this life goes on?"
It's almost like he's saying, "hey, look, there's no sense worrying. I've been through this before. And you know what, life goes on. This, THIS could be something terrific."
And I like that logic. LOVE it actually. I'm pretty surethat's why I LOVE THIS SONG so much...
Gray acknowledges vulnerability and a reluctance to act on something because of that vulnerability. However, I get the impression that in the context of this song, vulnerability is an obstacle as opposed to a roadblock. I believe he gets past it, and pursues the relationship. It's so refreshing to hear a song where the vulnerability emotion doesn't just loom there dooming something. It's acknowledged, and then dismissed. LOVE it. Brilliant brilliant BRILLIANT songwriting.
My FAVORITE lines in the song are:
"If you love me, got to know for sure.
Cause it takes something more this time,
More than sweet sweet lies
Before I open up my arms and fall."
I think it might be his way of asking her to prove herself to him. His way of figuring out if this is indeed worth pursuing. If she doesn't love him, he doesn't want to get hurt all for naught. O:-)
Anyone else think that the way Gray sings the line "This years love had better last" sounds likes: "This years love, it'll last"? Cause the second way, for me, amplifies the idea that he's trying to talk himself into going for it.
This song interests me very much. I LOVE THIS SONG! I think it's because I can see it in a few different ways. It's probably because this is the level I can most relate on, but MY FAVORITE interpretation is as follows...
I think that the writer is just fed up with relationships and quite possibly the idea of love in general. He's tried it before, and judging by the lyrics--
"When you hold me like you do It feels so right, oh now Start to forget how my heart gets torn When that hurt gets thrown"
--he always ends up hurt.
"Turning circles time again, it cut's like a knife."
It's a pattern. Sounds like he's got this routine of falling and getting hurt down to a science. Sooo sad!!
And this time, he's obviously fallen pretty hard, or is thinking about falling pretty hard, for someone new. When she holds him, it feels right. But he doesn't want to trust it. After all, the second he trusts it, he will open himself up to all kinds of vulnerability, and once again, he risks getting hurt. BUT I think he ultimately decides to risk feeling vulnerable again, and chaulks up his pride by saying, "this year's love- had better last."
I feel that saying this, to an extent, is talking himself into the pending relationship. I really do. After all, as UNFUN as getting hurt can be, he realizes it's nothing he hasn't dealt with before. Life goes on.
"So whose to worry If our hearts get torn When that hurt gets thrown Don't you know this life goes on?"
It's almost like he's saying, "hey, look, there's no sense worrying. I've been through this before. And you know what, life goes on. This, THIS could be something terrific."
And I like that logic. LOVE it actually. I'm pretty surethat's why I LOVE THIS SONG so much...
Gray acknowledges vulnerability and a reluctance to act on something because of that vulnerability. However, I get the impression that in the context of this song, vulnerability is an obstacle as opposed to a roadblock. I believe he gets past it, and pursues the relationship. It's so refreshing to hear a song where the vulnerability emotion doesn't just loom there dooming something. It's acknowledged, and then dismissed. LOVE it. Brilliant brilliant BRILLIANT songwriting.
My FAVORITE lines in the song are: "If you love me, got to know for sure. Cause it takes something more this time, More than sweet sweet lies Before I open up my arms and fall."
I think it might be his way of asking her to prove herself to him. His way of figuring out if this is indeed worth pursuing. If she doesn't love him, he doesn't want to get hurt all for naught. O:-)
Anyone else think that the way Gray sings the line "This years love had better last" sounds likes: "This years love, it'll last"? Cause the second way, for me, amplifies the idea that he's trying to talk himself into going for it.