Jilted Lovers and Broken Hearts Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Honey2004 

Cover art for Jilted Lovers and Broken Hearts lyrics by Brandon Flowers

This song makes me think of a guy i knew growing up, due to circumstances we never dated, but we did have feelings for each other. Apparently he thought we would get together when we got older, but i met someone in college and got married. Ten years later he is still single and blames me for not pursuing something with him. We come from different worlds, his family is wealthy, mine is blue collar, so i love the line, "our ideals never really marched in time, that's the bottom line." it sums up the feelings i had about us being out of sync and never really getting together.

I do agree it is probably more about cheating than unrequited love.