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Your fingertips across my skin
The palm trees swaying in the wind
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You sang me Spanish lullabies
The sweetest sadness in your eyes
Clever trick
Well, I never want to see you unhappy
I thought you'd want the same for me
[Chorus]
Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should've known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do
We walked along a crowded street
You took my hand and danced with me
Images
And when you left, you kissed my lips
You told me you would never, never forget
These images
Well, I'd never want to see you unhappy
I thought you'd want the same for me
[Chorus]
I cannot go to the ocean
I cannot drive the streets at night
I cannot wake up in the morning
Without you on my mind
So you're gone and I'm haunted
And I bet you are just fine
Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out
Of my life?
[Chorus]
The palm trees swaying in the wind
Images
You sang me Spanish lullabies
The sweetest sadness in your eyes
Clever trick
Well, I never want to see you unhappy
I thought you'd want the same for me
[Chorus]
Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should've known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do
We walked along a crowded street
You took my hand and danced with me
Images
And when you left, you kissed my lips
You told me you would never, never forget
These images
Well, I'd never want to see you unhappy
I thought you'd want the same for me
[Chorus]
I cannot go to the ocean
I cannot drive the streets at night
I cannot wake up in the morning
Without you on my mind
So you're gone and I'm haunted
And I bet you are just fine
Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out
Of my life?
[Chorus]
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After several months, I decided I needed to get over this boy. After all, loving a straight man, especially one so much younger, was only going to end in heartbreak. He knew I had a date with a man much more age-appropriate, and he knew I was taking him back to my apartment. He showed up on my doorstep, drunk, and crashed the date. A week later, he kissed me, and we slept together for the first time--his first time, period. I was in heaven. I loved this boy so much, and it was finally happening. We were in love.
That didn't last long. He broke up with me on Valentine's Day, which is four days before my birthday, by going back into the closet. Said he was straight, it had been a mistake, and that he was sorry. We had a massive falling out, and I haven't really spoken to him since. Two years later, I've moved 1000 miles away and have a fabulous life in Chicago, where I'm dating and living my dream as a writer and actor. He's moved on, too. He has a girlfriend, with whom he now has a child. I wish them both the best.
But whenever I hear this song, I'm taken back to that Valentine's night, standing in the snow, crying in the arms of my very own almost lover.
"So you're gone and I'm haunted
And I bet you are just fine
Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out
Of my life?"
have been suicide because its mentioned the other person seemed to be a bit blue (The sweetest sadness in your eyes, i never want to see you unhappy) but the singer thinks that maybe they can work it out together simply because she doesn't want the other party to hurt themselves because if they do, then it also hurts their loved one and nobody would want to hurt their loved ones but the singer miscalculated how much she meant to the dead guy and realizes he valued his peace (death) more than her happiness (I THOUGHT you'd want the same for me. note that thought is past tense). To be honest, the original interpretation is probably most accurate, but I'm just throwing another way to look at it.
To my current condition at least...
I've loved a boy and he has the same for me back for awhile now, and the only thing is we never went out. Then, he all of a sudden started going out with another girl. That's why he was an almost lover.
"Well, I never want to see you unhappy, I'd thought you want the same for me"
I want him to be happy, but I wonder if he'd want the same for me, I'd wonder if he still cares and if I'm still important to him...
The chorus: (Too long)
I relate because, I'm saying goodbye, going to move on from him, and what we had was hopeless and never really mattered...
I'm trying to forget him now, not thinking of him anymore...
I've turned my back from him, and I'm so hurt, but I know holding on would hurt me more.
The second verse, is her flashbacks, her past she has with him...
I think of the past and it truly hurts alot.
The bridge:
In my view, I can't do the same things anymore without thinking of him or putting a reminder of him, so I change my daily routines, and it won't be the same...
Although people and friends say he still has those same feelings for me, it will never be the same because I'm obviously not that special to him anymore if he's with someone else now.
But I also interpreted it as something else. I see a love that passed away just when they were on the verge of falling madly in love. This probably wasn't her intention, but its interesting and eerie to me.