The song outlines the pining of a woman who desperately desires a man she cannot have. Due to unexplained circumstances, she has shied away from revealing her feelings for so long that she has lost him or his interest (he is involved with another woman, he got married, moved far away, etc.). She is so crushed by this that she feels only his embrace could console her.
This is where the song comes in, right in the middle of a fantasy that her man has come home to give her the love she has wanted for so long.
The song outlines the pining of a woman who desperately desires a man she cannot have. Due to unexplained circumstances, she has shied away from revealing her feelings for so long that she has lost him or his interest (he is involved with another woman, he got married, moved far away, etc.). She is so crushed by this that she feels only his embrace could console her.
This is where the song comes in, right in the middle of a fantasy that her man has come home to give her the love she has wanted for so long.