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I want to be a good woman
And I want, for you to be a good man.
This is why I will be leaving
And this is why, I can't see you no more.
I will miss your heart so tender
And I will love
This love forever
I don't want be a bad woman
And I can't stand to see you be a bad man
I will miss your heart so tender
And I will love
This love forever
And this is why I am leaving
And this is why I can't see you no more
This is why I am lying when I say
That I don't love you no more
Cause I want (to) be a good women
And I want for you to be a good man
And I want, for you to be a good man.
This is why I will be leaving
And this is why, I can't see you no more.
I will miss your heart so tender
And I will love
This love forever
I don't want be a bad woman
And I can't stand to see you be a bad man
I will miss your heart so tender
And I will love
This love forever
And this is why I am leaving
And this is why I can't see you no more
This is why I am lying when I say
That I don't love you no more
Cause I want (to) be a good women
And I want for you to be a good man
Lyrics submitted by Brutin, edited by underwires, ifkd
Track duration: 03:56
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As an ex-drug addict, I was in a relationship with someone I loved more than anything, still do. But our addictions were ruining our relationship, and neither one of us could get clean or be better people because we kept dragging each other down. I finally decided to end the relationship so we could get ourselves right; I moved away and told him I would be back for him. I've been sober for 15 months now, but he died two months ago in a fire (I always thought it would be an overdose). It's hard for me to not regret leaving him, but it had to be done.
I always thought this song was about a love that has faded. A relationship is supposed to bring out the best in two people, but she finds that its bringing out the worst in them. I think its about being with someone who you really do love. In fact, you love them too much to be with them anymore. You know that your'e dragging them down, and if it means ending the relationship in order to be a "good woman", you must do so. I always pictured the woman in this song to be cheating on her loved one, and in turn that is ruining the foundation of the relationship. She feels guilty and knows he feels her guilt too. And the only way to make things right again is to end it. This song breaks my heart. Her voice sounds like is breaking, like she is going to cry at any moment. It is such a heartfelt song. Whatever the meaning, its beautiful.
so beautiful.
One of the reasons she loves him is that he is a good man, but by being together he is being a bad man. She can't have her way.
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I think that in the end, all relationships are basically doomed to bring out the worst in us and our partner, no matter how much you are/were in love. Familiarity breeds contempt, I believe is how the saying goes. This is a cold hard fact of life that most over a certain age will eventually realize.
After reading the lyrics, I thought of a woman who is basically jaded by relationships in general, because they all follow the same trajectory; so she wants to nip it in the bud by ending it before it gets to that point, because it will. She's really torn up and hurt by her own decision (she tells him she doesn't love him even though she does), but this pain is nothing compared to what is looming on the horizon. I guess you could call it a preemptive measure.
This is a great song, by the way.
After reading the lyrics, I thought of a woman who is basically jaded by relationships in general, because they all follow the same trajectory; so she wants to nip it in the bud by ending it before it gets to that point, because it will. She's really torn up and hurt by her own decision (she tells him she doesn't love him even though she does), but this pain is nothing compared to what is looming on the horizon. I guess you could call it a preemptive measure.
This is a great song, by the way.
It's amazing the complexity it conveys considering how relatively simple the lyrics are.
For me, it is about being with someone you love and who loves you back but for whatever reason, the relationship is not viable. It's simply not meant to be in this time and place and the narrator sees this and is trying to be the bigger person and right the situation, even though it breaks her heart (and his).
I think it differs from other relationship songs with the line "I will miss your heart so tender." I think Chan is talking about a very specific type of love here, one filled with tenderness and sweetness, perhaps bittersweetness, as she says that she will "love this love forever." It is something she will take with her for the rest of her life and possibly a love that changed her at the core of her person, never to be the same again. I sense no malice or needy co-dependence here in this song (compared to so many typical pop love songs). It's very pure and unadulterated in its sentiment and I suspect the lyrics came from a very deep place...made deeper by a very deep love. You're very lucky if you get to experience this kind of love even once in your lifetime, even luckier if you're able to survive its demise.
I've never really looked at it from the cheating angle. I had always assumed that it was doomed for other reasons, either for personal conflicts or circumstantial, such as a conflict of interest or something similar.
For me, I look at it through the lens of my own personal experience. I broke up with the only person I've ever loved and had to move out of the country to pursue my education and career. We loved each other dearly and still do but it was and is for the best that we not be together. He was my professor and I was his student and in the relatively small city in which we lived, it would have only been a matter of time before it had gotten out that we were together. He would have lost his job. I would have been kicked out of my university. We both would have been ostracized by our friends and family. Everything we had worked for in our personal and professional lives would have been taken away from us and I couldn't let that happen. He was too brilliant to be taken down by a scandal and I couldn't let my potential be snuffed out by the relationship's discovery by the wrong people. We parted ways romantically and we are doing better every day in our respective lives with more time to focus on other things, but it is still hard and my heart still breaks every time I speak to him. I suspect this is how it will always be and I have to learn to accept that sometimes love is not "all you need." I will always miss his "heart so tender" and yes, "I will love this love forever."
Because I want to be a good woman
And I want him to be a good man,
I am lying when I say I don't love him anymore.
i think it's about two people that love eachother but cannot be together and it hurts them so much that they pretend they don't love eachother anymore, but nothing can make it go away.
this song is so sad it makes me want to cry
not to mention this is exactly what i'm going through right now