Let me go I'm only letting you down
I got nothing to say to you now
Lose the feelings that are weighing me down
When I'm sane
It's turning morning all the birds sing
I'm not complicating anything
I'll have another and then I'll go to bed
And dream of you
Cause it's almost over
Yeah it's almost gone
I can feel the sweet illusion
Sweet confusion
Sweet illusion coming down
And I ain't got nothing but love for you now
You and I used to shine like a jewel
But time's been nothing to us but cruel
So play it out and never play the fool
Cause you'll lose everytime
We were nothing,we were only the past
Hard times like that don't last
I've been forgiven,I've been surpassed
By my heart
Have you?
Cause it's almost over
Yeah it's almost gone
I can feel the sweet illusion
Sweet confusion
Sweet illusion coming down
And I ain't got nothing but love
Love for you that I can't use
Lonely nights multiplied by the blues
I can't resolve
You never knew me but you did you're best
I'm just lonely inside I guess
You gave me everything you really tried
Thanks
If we are nothing and we're only the past
Well I'm just living in a dream I guess
A long black dream that takes me down the river to you
Where it's almost over
And it's almost gone
And I can feel the sweet illusion
Sweet confusion
Sweet illusion coming down
Sweet illusion
Sweet confusion
Sweet illusion coming down
And I ain't got nothing but love for you now
I got nothing to say to you now
Lose the feelings that are weighing me down
When I'm sane
It's turning morning all the birds sing
I'm not complicating anything
I'll have another and then I'll go to bed
And dream of you
Cause it's almost over
Yeah it's almost gone
I can feel the sweet illusion
Sweet confusion
Sweet illusion coming down
And I ain't got nothing but love for you now
You and I used to shine like a jewel
But time's been nothing to us but cruel
So play it out and never play the fool
Cause you'll lose everytime
We were nothing,we were only the past
Hard times like that don't last
I've been forgiven,I've been surpassed
By my heart
Have you?
Cause it's almost over
Yeah it's almost gone
I can feel the sweet illusion
Sweet confusion
Sweet illusion coming down
And I ain't got nothing but love
Love for you that I can't use
Lonely nights multiplied by the blues
I can't resolve
You never knew me but you did you're best
I'm just lonely inside I guess
You gave me everything you really tried
Thanks
If we are nothing and we're only the past
Well I'm just living in a dream I guess
A long black dream that takes me down the river to you
Where it's almost over
And it's almost gone
And I can feel the sweet illusion
Sweet confusion
Sweet illusion coming down
Sweet illusion
Sweet confusion
Sweet illusion coming down
And I ain't got nothing but love for you now
Lyrics submitted by Sum1LsesChpstck
Sweet Illusions Lyrics as written by Catherine Anne Popper Bradley Smith Pemberton
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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"Let me go, I'm only letting you down."
He feels like he wasn't good enough for her.
"I'll have another, then I'll go to bed."
He still loves her and he's drinking himself tired and then going to bed at night and dreaming of her. He obviously can't get her out of his mind.
"You and I used to shine like a jewel ..."
The relationship was all-encompassing and grand at one point, but it eventually soured, for whatever reason and that initial magic is no longer there ... but the love still is (at least on his part).
"We were nothing, we were only the past."
He's lying to himself here, saying that the relationship is done and over with and he's moving on. He's saying it's almost gone, but then admits he's confused and he still loves her. Seems he's trying to justify the end.
"You never knew me but I did my best I'm just lonely inside I guess You gave me everything You really tried, thanks If we were nothing and we're only the past Well I'm just living in a dream I guess"
That's pretty self-explanatory, to me. He finally, again, admits that the relationship couldn't have meant nothing and you can't just chalk it up to "lesson learned." He's obviously still lonely and thinks about her often.