A beautiful song and one of my favourites of theirs. Yes, there is definitely denial in this. This is a man holding onto a fantasy that he doesn’t want to let go.
The talking bit near the end always had me perplexed. What sort of wounds would you never want healed? The answer was revealed to me a few years back when a new relationship I was in fell apart. I wanted to keep holding on to the hope that maybe we’d get back together. To actually let it go, allow the wounds to heal and move on, meant that I would have to give up that dream of us being together again and I didn’t want to do that.
I think for Phil in this song though, that smile he gets at the end suggests a happy ending on this occasion. Or at the very least closure.
A beautiful song and one of my favourites of theirs. Yes, there is definitely denial in this. This is a man holding onto a fantasy that he doesn’t want to let go.
The talking bit near the end always had me perplexed. What sort of wounds would you never want healed? The answer was revealed to me a few years back when a new relationship I was in fell apart. I wanted to keep holding on to the hope that maybe we’d get back together. To actually let it go, allow the wounds to heal and move on, meant that I would have to give up that dream of us being together again and I didn’t want to do that.
I think for Phil in this song though, that smile he gets at the end suggests a happy ending on this occasion. Or at the very least closure.