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They say it fades if you let it,
Love was made to forget it.
I carved your name across my eyelids,
You pray for rain I pray for blindness.
If you still want me, please forgive me,
The crown of love has fallen from me.
If you still want me, please forgive me,
Because the spark is not within me.
I snuffed it out before my mom walked in my bedroom.
The only thing that you keep changin'
Is your name, my love keeps growin'
Still the same, just like a cancer,
And you won't give me a straight answer!
If you still want me, please forgive me,
The crown of love has fallen from me.
If you still want me please forgive me
Because your hands are not upon me.
I shrugged them off before my mom walked in my bedroom.
The pains of love, and they keep growin',
In my heart there's flowers growin'
On the grave of our old love,
Since you gave me a straight answer.
If you still want me, please forgive me,
The crown of love is not upon me
If you still want me, please forgive me,
Cause this crown is not within me.
It's not within me, it's not within me.
You gotta be the one,
You gotta be the way,
Your name is the only word that I can say
You gotta be the one,
You gotta be the way,
Your name is the only word,
The only word that I can say!
Love was made to forget it.
I carved your name across my eyelids,
You pray for rain I pray for blindness.
If you still want me, please forgive me,
The crown of love has fallen from me.
If you still want me, please forgive me,
Because the spark is not within me.
I snuffed it out before my mom walked in my bedroom.
The only thing that you keep changin'
Is your name, my love keeps growin'
Still the same, just like a cancer,
And you won't give me a straight answer!
If you still want me, please forgive me,
The crown of love has fallen from me.
If you still want me please forgive me
Because your hands are not upon me.
I shrugged them off before my mom walked in my bedroom.
The pains of love, and they keep growin',
In my heart there's flowers growin'
On the grave of our old love,
Since you gave me a straight answer.
If you still want me, please forgive me,
The crown of love is not upon me
If you still want me, please forgive me,
Cause this crown is not within me.
It's not within me, it's not within me.
You gotta be the one,
You gotta be the way,
Your name is the only word that I can say
You gotta be the one,
You gotta be the way,
Your name is the only word,
The only word that I can say!
Lyrics submitted by drinkmilk, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Track duration: 04:42
"Crown of Love" as written by Regine Chassagne Timothy Kingsbury
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I always thought of the singer as the ex-lover of who he's singing to (obviously), but he is stuck in an odd friend zone with her and is tormented by what the relationship has become.
"They say it fades if you let it,
Love was made to forget it.
I carved your name across my eyelids,
You pray for rain I pray for blindness."
He is trying to forget about her, but he was so deeply in love with her, he carved her name into his eyelids. At this point, albeit still obsessed with her, he is trying to forget her, forget their love, become "blind" to it.
"If you still want me, please forgive me,
The crown of love has fallen from me.
If you still want me, please forgive me,
Because the spark is not within me."
This is where I differ from most others. She wants to still be friends with him, but he is too depressed about how everything went down between them, and he can't even expose himself to her anymore. He asks her forgiveness, but their love has been hopelessly ruined for him. The spark has been snuffed, but he is still so confused about this love/hate he's experiencing in the relationship.
"The only thing that you keep changin'
Is your name, my love keeps growin'
Still the same, just like a cancer,
And you won't give me a straight answer!"
As he grows older, his feelings in relationships keep growing stronger. Like a cancer, his love over this particular girl has taken over his body, and he's obsessed with trying to define their relationship in its broken down stage, maybe for her to reaffirm his love for her, but she of course is not being so blatant.
As the song progresses, he gets more obsessed with her name, despite his lack of ability to feel the same way about her as he used to. This confused state is a paradox, which he presents through the crown of love leaving him, but he still obsesses over her.
"because the SPARK is not within me, I snuffed IT out before my mom walked in my bedroom"
"because your HANDS are not upon me, I shrugged THEM off before my mom walked in my bedroom"
I carved your name across my eyelids, - So he cant forget her because love fades if you let.
you pray for rain I pray for blindness. - Rain to wash away the memory for her. Blindness for him because of guilt for he may have done
the crown and the spark are him losing her love Crown = love. Spark = Passion
I snuffed it out before my mom walked in my bedroom. - Hiding the heartbreak as in the end it may have been his fault
The only thing that you keep changin' - in this verse i envision her flipfloping between forgiving
is your name, my love keeps growin' him or not, yet his love grows
still the same, just like a cancer,
and you won't give me a straight answer!
as for the next verse is pretty straight forwards that she doesnt want him back and he now thinks
You gotta be the one,
you gotta be the way,
your name is the only word that I can say
thats my take on it.its simple but is the most logical and unfortunatly i can relate with "Her" in this song
Elijah prays for rain.
"You won't give me a straight answer. My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest." (Psalm 22)
And the part at the end about "The One", "the Way", and "your Name".
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Although I don't think this song is about a religious subject, I wanted to point out some possible biblical imagery for those who may not recognize it. My guess is the song is about adolescent infatuation, and all of these allusions make show us that his love is so desperate it's "worshipful".
They say it fades if you let it
Love was made to forget it
I carved your name across my eyelids
You pray for rain, I pray for blindness
(We had it in our hands, but your fear let it fade and tricked you into thinking we were forgettable. Now you're everywhere I look. You're a permanent part of who I am. You want the rain to wash down and cleanse you of your feelings so you can forget it ever happened. I'd rather be blind so I'm no longer tortured or haunted by you.)
If you still want me, please forgive me
The crown of love has fallen from me
If you still want me, please forgive me
Because the spark is not within me
(There were so many little things I did that may have bugged you, but nothing so big for you to walk away. Please forgive me for every little thing. I still want you, so if you want me, forgive me and come back. I've lost any spark inside me. All the color in my world is gone without you here. Everything is gray.)
I snuffed it out before my mom walked in my bedroom
(I'm a great actress. No one knows I'm in this much pain...)
The only thing that you keep changing
Is your name, my love keeps growing
Still the same, just like a cancer
And you won't give me a straight answer
(You keep changing the rules on me. You told me you'd never hurt me, you'd never leave us, you'd always talk about things. Yet you walked out and vanished. You've changed your name so many times. I don't know who I'm talking to anymore. Yet I'm left here with this God-awful love you put in me, and even though I hate it, I don't want it, I want to cut it out, it makes me sick! - I still love you. In fact, I love you more now than I did before. It keeps growing. You loved me. You vanished. You won't give me any answers. I'm sick of you, this love...but there's no cure for this type of sickness.)
If you still want me, please forgive me
The crown of love has fallen from me
If you still want me, please forgive me
Because your hands are not upon me
(My God, to feel your hands upon me...what I wouldn't give. You took my crown of love, it's fallen.)
I shrugged them off before my mom walked in my bedroom
The pains of love, and they keep growing
In my heart there's flowers growing
On the grave of our old love
Since you gave me a straight answer
(I can't make anything better. It hurts in every cell of my body. And that hurt seems to only grow with time, never fading. I think if you would explain, I could look back more fondly. I could see our love as something that was necessary, a learning experience. I could think of you with "flowers" not pain.)
If you still want me, please forgive me
The crown of love is not upon me
If you still want me, please forgive me
Because this crown is not within me
It's not within me, it's not within me
You got to be the one
You got to be the way
Your name is the only word that I can say
You got to be the one
You got to be the way
Your name is the only word
The only word that I can say
(There is no one else. There never was. There never will be. You are the one, the way.)
it's about young love, the intense feelings you can't understand that may only be crushes but are still deeply affecting. i remember thinking 'Your name is the only word i'll ever say'.
'I shrugged them off before my mom walked in my bedroom' may be a double-entendre but i feel it is the purer (or however you want to put it) thoughts of tears and loneliness that many of us have 'wiped away' before others could see it.
'I carved your name across my eyelids
You pray for rain, I pray for blindness' - not entirely sure about the rain bit but it seems clear that his love for her is written everywhere he looks and all he wants is to forget her.
'The only thing that you keep changing
Is your name, my love keeps growing' - he gets more and more crushes and says to himself that it's much more than the previous one.
'Still the same, just like a cancer
And you won't give me a straight answer' - he equates it (in the same overblown/perspectiveless ways of a teenager) to something much worse and more evil. He also finds that not knowing makes it much more difficult and it is a tendency of girls to avoid giving a straight answer (maybe they think they're protecting us).
'On the grave of our old love
Since you gave me a straight answer' - however, the longer she left it, the more emotionally invested he became and the straight answer (no) hurt him a lot.
Whatever, it may be wrong and it's difficult to commit all the thoughts flashing through my mind to text but that's my view and i have to say, glorious beautiful song from a marvellous album.