Christina Perri – A Thousand Years

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  General Comment:After my fiancee chose this song for our wedding day hopefully next year, and myself never hearing it before, I had to look into the meaning of it because I suppose i'm old fashioned and think for a special day the song and lyric chose has to be right.
  
  So that's how I stumbled across this web site, and after reading some of the comments and thoughts on here I believe this could be our wedding song. Making me realize just how much we love each other. Many thanks to you all.
  
  Love You Joanne x

  Flag bigt66650on April 18, 2013   Link

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  General Comment:BEST LINE: "All of my doubt, suddenly goes away somehow" - THIS is exactly how everyone should feel when they are confident in their relationship! love it.

  Flag lyrical_butterflyon April 03, 2013   Link

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  My Interpretation:I don't know if I could really consider this an interpretation, but this song reminds me of Ever and Damen's relationship in The Immortals Series. Damen's, an immortal, fell in love with Ever, a (sort of) mortal, and knew he had to have her forever, and once they're in love, just before he can finally have her, she's killed by Drina, a ex who's still stuck on Damen. He waits for centuries to have her again, but every time she's reincarnated, Drina undoes everything. But finally, Damen turns Ever Immortal and they face many challenges throughout not only their relationships, but their lives. In the end of the whole series, they can finally be together in every and any way they could have imagined. This is such a beautiful song and if anyone knows about/had read/is reading The Immortals Series (Evermore, Blue Moon, Shadowland, Dark Flame, Night Star, and Everlasting), please let me know!!! :D

  Flag evertranceon March 30, 2013   Link

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  My Interpretation:I think that this a song about somebody's wedding day and the bride is walking down the isle.

  Flag treblenoteon March 23, 2013   Link

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  General Comment:I think this song intended to the persons looking for real love online a Long Distance Relationship.

  Flag Kwinlesson March 11, 2013   Link

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  My Interpretation:SHE IS INLOVE WITH A GIRL :)

  Flag meatloaf02on March 04, 2013   Link

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  Memory:Reminds me of my relationship.
  
  My relationship began online 9 years ago. He lived halfway across the world, and for many years, it was impossible for him to move here to be with me. We carried on an online romance for 6 years before he finally came here so we could be together. It's been three years since then, and today we live together and love each other more than ever.
  
  So, I can take almost all of this song literally. "I have died every day waiting for you." I waited, and waited, for six years to meet the love of my life, with a lot of judgment and disapproval from the people around me...it was incredibly difficult, but I knew what I wanted. There was no one else. Never anyone else, for either of us. Sounds hard to believe, I know, and I can't explain why other than that we just KNEW, somehow, that we were meant for each other.
  "All along, I believed I would find you." I did. He did, too. We always knew we would be together someday, whenever it was feasible.
  
  "Time has brought your heart to me." It really did. After all that waiting, the time was worth it. Every day, every month, every year. Worth everything for what I have now. Anyway, that's my sentiment take on this song. It's beautiful.

  Flag Crimroseon March 03, 2013   Link

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  General Comment:I don't know if this is "correct" but it's my interpretation of the song:
  
  Verse 1: She has loved this guy for awhile, but never told him. Her heart beats fast when she's around him, she has so much "colours' or the joys of living and being alive, that she wants to share with him, so many promises that she wants to make, but she's too afraid of "to fall" perhaps that he doesn't return her love, that she can't tell him. But he's standing all alone and she sees her opportunity. All her doubt goes away--she must tell him. She takes a step closer to him.
  
  The chorus is her confession that she loves him. She's died every day waiting for him--it's painful to always see him and want to tell him how she feels, but not be able to. She keeps waiting for him to make the first move, but he won't. She tells him not to be afraid--she doesn't want to scare him away--but she's loved him for a thousand years--it feels that way to her, at least--and will continue to love him for a thousand more.
  
  The second verse is back before she confessed, while she is still going toward him. Time stands still for a moment, a beautiful moment as she reaches him. She's going to be brave and tell him how she feels, she won't let fear or anything else take this away from her. Every breath, every hour she has spent waiting for him has come to this one moment. She takes one more step forward.
  
  Once more, her confession.
  
  I believe at this point he tells her that he loves her too, and she just wells up with emotion. All along she knew that she would "find" him, or that he would finally know how she felt. Time brought "heart" to her, meaning that her feelings grew and developed until she was ready to tell him. She repeats that she has loved him for a long time and will continue to love him.
  
  Every word uttered is one step closer to the happiness she has dreamed of.
  
  Like I said, my interpretation might be a bit of a stretch, but I'm kind of in this situation, so this is how I interpret it. Someday a beautiful moment might come when I will be one step closer.

  Flagged RosesAndRuffleson February 24, 2013   Link

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    u n me have the same interpretation.. she's to affraid or to shy to tell him her feelings.. :)
    

    Flag gledifyon May 15, 2013  
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  My Interpretation:This may be a little obscure, but I am wondering if perhaps, like most people, she has dreamed of the perfect person and has fallen in love with this dream. Fear has kept her from falling in love because of worries that no one will measure up to what she has always hoped for. She then sees the epitamy of her dream in life and although hesitant, she "falls in love at first sight" Although she has loved this person for a thousand years in her dreams. She takes it slowly at first but learns that this is the person for her and that she has no need to be hesitant as she will never find out unless she takes a leap of faith.

  Flag Krystah1369on November 26, 2012   Link

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    This is exactly what I thought. This song is so beautiful!

    Flag tirzahon December 13, 2012  
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  General Comment:I don' t know. The song could mean she love this guy before she met him or she loved him before they started a relationship. And now it's their wedding day.

  Flag coolioangelon November 21, 2012   Link

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