While "unrequited love" may be a more romantic and familiar term, I suspect Brendan Perry has a pretty sharp eye for language and "requited love" (or love that is reciprocated) is something one would be more likely to "dream" of.
! Many, many thanks to Songmeaningsuser for posting the Baudelaire poem.
I think it is "unrequited love". "requited love" is what a person, who loves the concept of life wants. Unrequited love is the love for death. It is a one-way affection and you cannot get hurt as your path is under your control while you wait for your time to expire. He uses "away from harm" twice, once saying it is easier to commit suicide then to endure the lies and harm of life and the other is to embrace natural death, as for the unrequited love of death, not being fooled by the life of the sun....
I think it is "unrequited love". "requited love" is what a person, who loves the concept of life wants. Unrequited love is the love for death. It is a one-way affection and you cannot get hurt as your path is under your control while you wait for your time to expire. He uses "away from harm" twice, once saying it is easier to commit suicide then to endure the lies and harm of life and the other is to embrace natural death, as for the unrequited love of death, not being fooled by the life of the sun.
I believe the line
"Any maybe it's me who dreams unrequited love"
should be
"Any maybe it's me who dreams of requited love"
While "unrequited love" may be a more romantic and familiar term, I suspect Brendan Perry has a pretty sharp eye for language and "requited love" (or love that is reciprocated) is something one would be more likely to "dream" of.
! Many, many thanks to Songmeaningsuser for posting the Baudelaire poem.
I thought the same thing. It just makes more sense.
I thought the same thing. It just makes more sense.
I think it is "unrequited love". "requited love" is what a person, who loves the concept of life wants. Unrequited love is the love for death. It is a one-way affection and you cannot get hurt as your path is under your control while you wait for your time to expire. He uses "away from harm" twice, once saying it is easier to commit suicide then to endure the lies and harm of life and the other is to embrace natural death, as for the unrequited love of death, not being fooled by the life of the sun....
I think it is "unrequited love". "requited love" is what a person, who loves the concept of life wants. Unrequited love is the love for death. It is a one-way affection and you cannot get hurt as your path is under your control while you wait for your time to expire. He uses "away from harm" twice, once saying it is easier to commit suicide then to endure the lies and harm of life and the other is to embrace natural death, as for the unrequited love of death, not being fooled by the life of the sun.
Very powerful song.