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Originally Posted by michelej1
You think so? I don't think it's happy sounding at all. I think it's heart breaking. Any optimism it mentions is in the past tense, like looking through a rearview window. Well, I thought it might work out . . . but it didn't.
But it's beautiful. You've shaken my faith in everything else. It just says to me, "I still believe in you, despite everything" and that's just SOB.
Michele
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It's got some really sweet moments. Like "He held her hands, she listened to what he had to say" and "Maybe now he could prove to her that he could be good for her and they should be together". Lots of songs are written in the past tense. That doesn't mean that the feeling of the song is over. We know it's over because of what we know about them in real life but in the context of the song it could be interpreted to mean that after many years they finally found peace with each other. And the last line about how he'd never told her how hard it was without her sort of leads you to believe that he's telling her that now. I guess everyone can have different interpretations of it.