She says to him that their relationship is like money- it's worth something but it's inert and can't stand up. He meets her years later after they have both lived a life. She was everything to him but the problem wasn't her but the world, If he could make the world like the strange enchanting vision he has in his mind they would be together. She was everything to him but could never be his. Well enough to be pleased saddened and maddened by her. For me it is the sad musings of an older man about meeting someone he hopelessly loved in his youth. I have a different reaction now to this song to when I was 18. Setting aside the fact that this song is about the sweet balm of heroin it is also about love and life.īeing about the same age as Lou (would be). She is an ideal and ultimately unkeepable love for him on pedestal and he's doomed to be haunted by her Pale blue eyes. She is an ideal and ultimately unkeepable love for him on pedestal and he's doomed to be haunted by her Pale blue eyes.Ī very sad and beautiful song. It can't last.Ī very sad and beautiful song. What they are doing is backwards "lies but can't stand up, down for you is up". But that is not to be: "skip a life completely, stuff it in a cup". He imagines a world "pure and strange" where they could be together, where only love matters and not inconvenient facts like that she's married to someone else. But since it's an affair it's something he "had but couldn't keep", because she'll never truly be his. "Thought of you as my mountain top" "my peak". When you have an affair, you get very infatuated. "The fact that you are married, only proves that you're my best friend" - I think this means she wanted be with him so much, they have such a connection, she was willing to step over the fact that she's married. They had sex and he at least would do it again (even though "It's truly, truly a sin"). "It was good what we did yesterday and I'd do it once again". The man and woman in this song had a love affair. This isn't about a guy who wants a girl or wants her back and now she's married. This is not a song about unrequited love, rather it's about impossible love.
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