This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
You know it ain't easy
For these thoughts here to leave me
There are no words to describe it
In French or in English
'Cause diamonds they fade
And flowers they bloom
And I'm telling you
That these feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
They've been knockin' me out lately
Whenever you come around me
These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
I keep thinking in a moment that
Time will take them away
But these feelings won't go away
These feelings won't go away
It ain't easy
For these thoughts here to leave me
There are no words to describe it
In French or in English
'Cause diamonds they fade
And flowers they bloom
And I'm telling you
That these feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
They've been knockin' me out lately
Whenever you come around me
These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
I keep thinking in a moment that
Time will take them away
But these feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
I keep thinking in a moment that
Time will take them away
These feelings won't go away
These feelings won't go away
'Cause diamonds they fade
And flowers they bloom
And I'm telling you
And diamonds they fade
Flowers they bloom
And I'm telling you
These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
They've been knockin' me out lately
Whenever you come around me
These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
I keep thinking in a moment that
Time will take them away
But these feelings won't go away
For these thoughts here to leave me
There are no words to describe it
In French or in English
'Cause diamonds they fade
And flowers they bloom
And I'm telling you
That these feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
They've been knockin' me out lately
Whenever you come around me
These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
I keep thinking in a moment that
Time will take them away
But these feelings won't go away
These feelings won't go away
It ain't easy
For these thoughts here to leave me
There are no words to describe it
In French or in English
'Cause diamonds they fade
And flowers they bloom
And I'm telling you
That these feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
They've been knockin' me out lately
Whenever you come around me
These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
I keep thinking in a moment that
Time will take them away
But these feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
I keep thinking in a moment that
Time will take them away
These feelings won't go away
These feelings won't go away
'Cause diamonds they fade
And flowers they bloom
And I'm telling you
And diamonds they fade
Flowers they bloom
And I'm telling you
These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
They've been knockin' me out lately
Whenever you come around me
These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
I keep thinking in a moment that
Time will take them away
But these feelings won't go away
Lyrics submitted by pnkseashel, edited by cutewhensedated
Sideways Lyrics as written by Clarence Copeland Greenwood
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I absolutly LOVE this song... The Version with Carlos Santana is so much better than the one off Clarence Greenwood.
This is the only song that drives me to tears when I hear it....
In my opinion it is about a man who is so in love with a woman that he can no longer control it. These feeling have compleatly taken over him and no matter what he does "these Feeling wont go away"
I completely relate. Going through my own heartbreak of mine and dealing with feelings that wont go away. To me- it's about being so wrapped up into someone and feeling so much for them. you think you can get over the person (i keep thinking in a moment that time will take them away) but you feel so strong for this person that "these feelings wont go away". it's such a beautiful song. and i think many can relate. i love the beginning lines. it sums up how i am dealing with certain emotions and thoughts. it's hard to me to let go and for certain thoughts about my ex to leave me. such a gorgeous song.
I beleve this song is about drugs n drug withdrawal
@a_contradiction agreed<br />
The songs great because it can be applied to many situations and different people relate to it differently...it's a universal song. When I listen to it, the artist is in the middle of a relationship that he truely is happy with and likes. The feelings that won't go away are the feelings for another person, whether those feelings are permanent or just a phase they kinda worry him and make him think. Diamonds are one of the stongest materials in the world, when he says "diamonds they fade" he talks about his strong relationship that he's currently in seems to be dulled/is fading in comparison to these new feelings that he feels. He expresses these new feelings for the anonymous person in the line "Flowers they bloom". The song compares a happy, loving, stable relationship with someone to new feelings he experiences when he's around someone else. He doesn't know why he feels them, i'm not too sure he even wants to feel them, but for whatever reason he does and its making him think....
I think it could also be more about him being afraid to feel something. Maybe he doesn't want to let down his guard, but he just can't help it when he's around that certain person.
This song to me is unrequited love. But maybe it's because I'm putting myself into the song.
This song has so much emotion, I cant listen to it without feeling the heartache
a boy i liked who was really shy told me to listen to this song. its so powerful and to me it means that someone really likes a person but they're maybe scared to have these feelings..but they just can't help it. great song
It's the same as my interpretation to this song. This is absolutely a great song no matter what anyway.
I think this song is about a love that you cannot have. "for these thoughts to leave me here" just sounds to me like he is left alone to feel this love by himself. regardless this guy is awesome.
this is a great song about. I think its about, like other people have stated, loss of a loved one, and not being able to get over them. Santana just takes this song over the top with his AMAZING guitar skills. you can get lost in this song, super easy
My opinion of this song is death and mortality.
Well, diamonds they fade In my interpratation, a young man (or woman) who is in the prime of his youth feeling as though he's invincible and then becoming old and unable
And flowers they bloom Again in my interpration the renewing of the 'diamond', a young boy (or girl) growing up and continuing the cycle.
Also the song is a loop of the same general lyrics and the fade out (not stop) also lead me to beleive the repeat of the cycle.
Although in retaliation of this style of interpration (Death, morning, mortality etc) French is the referred to as a language of love (as followed by Spanish and Irish). Although at the same time this could also be a refference to a loved one not just the excluded lover.