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Hold You In My Arms Lyrics
When you came to me with your bad dreams and your fears
It was easy to see you'd been crying Seems like everywhere you turn catastrophe it reigns But who really profits from the dying I could hold you in my arms I could hold you forever I could hold you in my arms I could hold you forever When you kissed my lips with my mouth so full of questions My worried mind that you quiet Place your hands on my face Close my eyes and say That love is a poor man's food Don't prophesize I could hold you in my arms I could hold you forever And I could hold you in my arms I could hold you forever So now we see how it is This fist begets the spear Weapons of war Symptoms of madness Don't let your eyes refuse to see Don't let your ears refuse to hear Or you ain't never going to shake this sense of sadness I could hold you in my arms I could hold on forever And I could hold you in my arms I could hold on forever |
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01-07-2005
so so so wonderful
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05-16-2005
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03-12-2006
I've often wondered if this song was written with something like 9/11 in mind. Maybe that's just me...
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03-12-2006
I've often wondered if this song was written with something like 9/11 in mind. Maybe that's just me...
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07-06-2006
Quite applicable to real life -- think of all the times you've watched friends chose the bad guy or girl over the loyal, dependable relationship.
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09-05-2006
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10-13-2006
I also think it may be about depression. It sounds like someone he cares for is going through a really rough time (catastrophes and all). He worries about her but he is comforted when she is with him or in his arms.
I especially think this is true with:
"Don't let your eyes refuse to see
Don't let your ears refuse to hear
Or you ain't never going to shake this sense of sadness"
He wants to help her. I think the way he says, " I could hold on forever" really shows how much he cares and gives the listener hope that things will get better.
Absolutely beautiful
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02-21-2007
Don't let your eyes refuse to see
Don't let your ears refuse to hear
Or you ain't never going to shake this sense of sadness
Basically, see me, hear me. I love you and I'm here and as long as we hold on to eachother, life isn't so bad. "Love is a poor mans food." If man doesn't have love then he'll get so bogged down with all the bad in the world. Love is necessary for survival.
Anyways, that's our take on it. I can't wait to hear it sung at our wedding.
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03-01-2007
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03-13-2007
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10-25-2007
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10-25-2007
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10-30-2007
This song is told from the viewpoint of a guy who is so deeply in love with a woman he can't have for whatever reasons (she seems to be in a bad or loveless relationship and is willing to stay for money or perhaps she isn’t in a relationship, but her heart is just not open to him because she doesn’t believe in love and only has casual sex). She is going through many problems in her life and he seeks to rescue her by holding her in his arms and just loving her. She doesn't love him in return, but she only comes to him and is stringing him along for comfort. When he says, "Seems like everywhere you turn catastrophe it reigns. But who really profits from the dying," he is letting you know that because this woman is so troubled, she drags people down into her pool of misery and no one benefits from this, especially her. She probably breaks a lot of hearts along the way.
The lines "When you kissed my lips with my mouth so full of questions, My worried mind that you quiet" are saying that he has confessed his love to her, wants more from her and perhaps asks if there's ever a chance for them to be together. He has been willing to put up with so much from her but now he wants answers. Just a kiss from her is enough to silence his demands and give him false comfort until she causes him further heartache and dashes his dreams by saying “Love is a poor man’s food.” This is the most telling line of the song. Poor people do not have many material things to dote on, so love is all they have to keep them going. This doesn’t apply to her.
She's making a universal statement that shows she is separating her ideals about life from his. She equates his idealistic views about love to pipe dreams, naiveté, or being a hopeless romantic. Unlike him, she mistakenly believes that she doesn't need to love or be loved for sustenance because she has enough material things to satisfy her in life – that money will buy her happiness. She's willing to put up with an unhappy situation in her life because she has riches (or what she equates to riches).
This is what leads up to the third verse. He says, “So now we see how it is” (he finally realizes that he doesn’t have a chance) and then says “This fist begets the spear, Weapons of war, Symptoms of madness,” which means that she has finally destroyed him by confirming his worst fears and it is a throwback to the first verse about how she is repeating her destructive cycle of causing catastrophe in her life and others' by refusing to love and be loved. Finally, he gives her one last painful warning: “Don't let your eyes refuse to see, Don't let your ears refuse to hear, Or you ain't never going to shake this sense of sadness.” He is telling her that it doesn’t matter how rich you are or how many things of value you have, if you do not have love in your life or if you are incapable of loving someone, you will still be miserable and this misery will follow you everywhere you go. She is blind and deaf to this one simple concept.
Throughout the song's chorus, he is trying to express to her how much he loves her and would hold her in his arms forever, if only she would let him. The one simple thing he wants from her is what she refuses to give him in return- love. If she'd open her eyes and just love him back, they would both be happy, the catastrophe she causes in her life and others’ would stop and all problems would cease because requited love cures all. The irony of it all is that while she sees him as naďve, she really is the one who is.
As brwneyedgrl said, this is definitely a "Nice guys finish last" song.
04-16-2009
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11-09-2007
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08-10-2008
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12-30-2008
"I could hold you in my arms
I could hold you forever
And I could hold you in my arms
I could hold you forever"
Doesn't every girl wish a guy could sing them a song like this....I know I do!
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01-18-2009
def. love ray.
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