Shamandalie

This is a song about a person examining the regret of a friendship lost of unrequited romantic love.

//In good old times, remember my friend //Moon was so bright and so close to us, sometimes //We were still blind and deaf, what a bliss? //Painting the world of our own, for our own eyes, now?

The narrator was really good friends with someone in their childhood. As children they were "deaf and blind", alluding to the ignorance ("ignorance is bliss"-->"what a bliss") and simplcitly of youth. I take this to mean that then the friendship was genuinely platonic because they were blind and dead to romantic love, being too young to care about such things.

//Can we ever have what we had then? //Friendship unbreakable //Love means nothing to me

He wants the friendship he had then. He doesn't care about romantic love ("love means nothing to me"), he just wants to have a strong bond with that person.

//Without blinking an eye //I'd fade, if so needed

He's hurt that he could form such a strong bond with someone, and have that person appear to just cut him off from their life. Where once he was an important part of this person's life, he instead "faded" "without blinking an eye".

//All those moments with you //If I had you beside me

Again, he no longer cares about the romantic aspect. he just wants to get those pure moments of friendship back.

//I was unable to cope with what you said //Sometimes we need to be cruel to be kind //Child that I was, could not see the reason //Feelings I had were but sham and a lie?

//You saw us always clearer than me //How we were never meant to be //Love denied meant the friendship would die //Now I have seen the light //These memories make me cry

As they grew older, his platonic love morphed into romantic love. He wanted more than mere friendship. However, the other person denied their advances, which hurt him deeply. He reflects that while it was painful, in the end it was correct, but in his youth and pain he could not understand this. The object of his affection understood that they could not work as a romantic item. At the time though, he felt rejected and wondered if any of the emotions they had were genuine; was it just "a sham and a lie"?

//I have never forgotten your smile //Your eyes, oh, Shamandalie //Time went by, many memories died //I'm writing this down to ease my pain

It's been a very long time since the friendship ended due to the awkwardness of unrequited love, but ht still remembers and regret that it faded.

//Friendship got broken //There's no other for me //Like the one of my childhood days //Can you forgive me? //The love got better off me, //On that day back in old times"

The implication that I get from "love got the better of me" and "I was unable to cope with what you said" is that he lashed out in pain and anger when his advances were denied, and in doing so said very hurtful things that in the end ruined the friendship. He has never had such a deep and meaningful friendship since, and wishes he could apologize for breaking it apart.