On its surface. this song seems to be about missing an ex, and the pain of watching her happy with another man.
But the song, while being filled with "you" and "your," is dominated by the first-person pronoun, "I." The song is actually about the speaker's failure at loving a woman properly.
It's in the line "He's all I couldn't be." It's not that his ex is more compatible with her new boyfriend, its that he treats her right, knows how to love her. Our speaker can't make a woman happy ("I never saw that look in your eye"), lacks unabashed physical intimacy "(I never had you hold me that tight"), and is unable to sweep a woman off her feet ("I never saw you dance with your feet off the ground").
Such an underrated song by a largely forgotten about singer.
On its surface. this song seems to be about missing an ex, and the pain of watching her happy with another man.
But the song, while being filled with "you" and "your," is dominated by the first-person pronoun, "I." The song is actually about the speaker's failure at loving a woman properly.
It's in the line "He's all I couldn't be." It's not that his ex is more compatible with her new boyfriend, its that he treats her right, knows how to love her. Our speaker can't make a woman happy ("I never saw that look in your eye"), lacks unabashed physical intimacy "(I never had you hold me that tight"), and is unable to sweep a woman off her feet ("I never saw you dance with your feet off the ground").
Such an underrated song by a largely forgotten about singer.