This song really resonates with me, and would with many people. To me its the pleas of a girl who has had a relationship with a guy, and it ended messily. She's expressing her regrets for "the things [they] should have learned...the things [they] could have heard" and the bittersweetness of a romance that neither of them did justice, they didn't treat each other as they should have, they had a "love [they] never earned". The "gold falling from the ceiling of this world" is the beauty of the love that fate, or destiny, or divinity, whatever you want to believe, bestowed upon the two lovers (I'd even go so far as to say that maybe the ceiling is symbolic of a concept of heaven above) and the girl can't ignore it - she wants to finally do their love justice. She is ready to give it another go even if they hurt one another again, and she can see everything clearly - she knows it will be hard and they probably will hurt one another again, but she doesn't want to lie and taint the relationship from the beginning, for all that is important to her now is that she "keep [him] in [her] heart". Meanwhile the guy does not have her faith, and he won't give himself over to his emotions as she is doing, instead protecting himself in the world of the rational and cerebral, with the thoughts that he has formulated regarding the failed relationship in the past that have allowed him to cope and get past the hurt. I'm not sure about the repetition of "falling" - perhaps it has a double meaning: the girl can feel herself falling back in love with this person, and falling back under the spell of their romance, but as she is doing so she is becoming more aware of her lover, or ex-lover, "falling from [her] heart" as he holds back and retreats from her advances, overcome by a fear of being hurt again.
This song really resonates with me, and would with many people. To me its the pleas of a girl who has had a relationship with a guy, and it ended messily. She's expressing her regrets for "the things [they] should have learned...the things [they] could have heard" and the bittersweetness of a romance that neither of them did justice, they didn't treat each other as they should have, they had a "love [they] never earned". The "gold falling from the ceiling of this world" is the beauty of the love that fate, or destiny, or divinity, whatever you want to believe, bestowed upon the two lovers (I'd even go so far as to say that maybe the ceiling is symbolic of a concept of heaven above) and the girl can't ignore it - she wants to finally do their love justice. She is ready to give it another go even if they hurt one another again, and she can see everything clearly - she knows it will be hard and they probably will hurt one another again, but she doesn't want to lie and taint the relationship from the beginning, for all that is important to her now is that she "keep [him] in [her] heart". Meanwhile the guy does not have her faith, and he won't give himself over to his emotions as she is doing, instead protecting himself in the world of the rational and cerebral, with the thoughts that he has formulated regarding the failed relationship in the past that have allowed him to cope and get past the hurt. I'm not sure about the repetition of "falling" - perhaps it has a double meaning: the girl can feel herself falling back in love with this person, and falling back under the spell of their romance, but as she is doing so she is becoming more aware of her lover, or ex-lover, "falling from [her] heart" as he holds back and retreats from her advances, overcome by a fear of being hurt again.
Amazing.