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You were a song that I couldn't sing
you were a story I couldn't tell
I've only ever loved myself
But I've loved myself so well.
And how defeated I return!
(you're nice and blue, you're nice and blue)
I missed what I was supposed to learn
as all I learned about was missing you.
A life left half behind, though no longer
blind I can't yet see. I'm not the boy that
I once was, but I'm not the man I'll be.
I've been waiting now, for six years on
(and have only just begun)
For the day you'll hold her in your arms,
oh risen Lord, my precious one.
I was once the wine, and you the wineglass.
I was once alive, when you held me.
God became the glass,
all things left were emptiness
Oh, my little girl, if you look out
andsee a trace of dark red that used
to be my face, in the clarity of his
grace: remember me.
you were a story I couldn't tell
I've only ever loved myself
But I've loved myself so well.
And how defeated I return!
(you're nice and blue, you're nice and blue)
I missed what I was supposed to learn
as all I learned about was missing you.
A life left half behind, though no longer
blind I can't yet see. I'm not the boy that
I once was, but I'm not the man I'll be.
I've been waiting now, for six years on
(and have only just begun)
For the day you'll hold her in your arms,
oh risen Lord, my precious one.
I was once the wine, and you the wineglass.
I was once alive, when you held me.
God became the glass,
all things left were emptiness
Oh, my little girl, if you look out
andsee a trace of dark red that used
to be my face, in the clarity of his
grace: remember me.
Lyrics submitted by XxMichaelaxX
Track duration: 03:44
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He leaves her to remain one with God because she doesn't believe in God the same way.
Now the comfort he used to feel in being "in her arms" he now feels in God's.
"all things left are emptiness" means that all things left behind are emptiness. When God became the wine glass, he no longer felt empty.
so, yes, god could be part of this, perhaps he is reaching out for god and feels bad for leaving his relationship with god for his relationship with this woman.
"I've been waiting now, for six years on
(and have only just begun)
For the day you'll hold her in your arms,
oh risen Lord, my precious one."
There comes a time in every believer's life when they realize that they have been holding something in their heart before God, and are miserable because of it. God asks us to surrender those things to Him because He loves us and knows what's best for us, even if it hurts or doesn't make sense at the time. A lot of Aaron's lyrics allude to this concept in many mwY songs. This one does with such beauty and power it's ridiculous.
Saying, "God became the glass, and all things left were emptiness," makes it almost seem like he is angry with God.
I assume the “glass” that held him (the wine) was some woman, because he says “God BECAME the glass.”
So when he used to be with the woman, he was alive and happy and all that.
But then, God became the glass that held him, and he and everything else became empty.
And about his "little girl" looking to see a dark red that used to be his face, saying to remember him in the CLAIRTY of God' grace... it all seems a bit like slight animosity toward god, or at least he’s unsure of God. He wants her to remember him when he WAS sure of God, but he isn’t anymore.
Just my input. Seems to be different from everyone else’s.
"Oh, my little girl, if you look out
and see a trace of dark red that used
to be my face, in the clarity of his
grace: remember me."
this song is pretty easy to understand. i take this to the heart because i've seen this exact thing happen to my brother and his ex-girlfriend. it's incredible, lyrically, how he can explain something so vividly...
I once was, but I'm not the man I'll be"
This is about a man trying to find his way to God after a break up with his girlfriend.
"You were a song that I couldn't sing
you were a story I couldn't tell"
He's saying that him and his girlfriend broke up due to the fact that he couldn't speak about God anymore but he later chose God over her;
"And how defeated I return!"
He's saying that he should never have gone for her in the first place.