Anyone who knows me...knows that I LOVE THIS SONG...well I did before I thought about analyzing it. I joke about it being my "someday" wedding song...but after researching it online, I think I wouldn't have a wedding if I told my hubby I wanted this song...
Here I am today listening to this song on repeat and just thinking about it...I still love the song, not sure why. I am very sad when I look deeper and see people's comments about this song however.
Here are the lyrics:
So we lie here in the dark
All the wrong things on fire
In sickness and in health
To be with you, just to be with you
In your wedding dress
To have and to hold
'Cause even at my best
I wanna let go
And you hold me in your arms
And all that I can see
Is my future in your hands
And all that I can feel
Is how long ever after is
It's all that I can do
To be with you, just to be with you
In your wedding dress
To have and to hold
'Cause even at my best
I wanna let go
Thought I'd lost you
Thought I'd lost you
I gave you away
Thought I'd lost you
I'm jealous of the moon
For how it moves the waves
'Cause in your wedding dress
To have and to hold
'Cause even at my best
I wanna let go
And I wanna be somebody else now
And I wanna thicken my skin
And I wanna wish it all
Just wish it all away again
I have read some online comments about these lyrics and most people agree that it is about divorce. How could a song about a wedding dress be about divorce.
"thought I'd lost you
thought I lost you (I gave you away)
thought I'd lost you
jealous of the moon for how it moves the waves"
They divorce. He is saying that he thought he lost her after the divorce, but realizes that he didn’t lose her. He made the choice to end the marriage. He gave her away. The moon line is about having control over his life. Maybe how he wishes he could have had that control of his life before his marriage.
After reading some other comments, I like this logic better: he is in love with this girl but can't have her - still sad but not AS depressing...okay, so it is just as equally depressing.
What are your thoughts on these lyrics? If you have not heard this song, download it somewhere and have a listen and just think...
3 comments:
interesting... never heard the song!
Hmmm. I think he is having an affair with a woman who just got married.
Ok. Just realized that Matt Nathanson is a Christian/Gospel singer. Likely about a about a father giving away his daughter on her wedding day
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