Hooverphonic – Eden

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  It's about regret and not giving a relationship the chance it deserved. It's about wanting more and giving less, hearing but not listening. It's about two people that might have hurt each other.
  
  In this song, she is admitting her part in the failed relationship- if only she had loved completely, she might have discovered his true being, she might have found her paradise as well...

  Flag tashikilooon November 29, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:I think eden is about unrequitted love. two people that at one point been close. Something happend. And fingers were pointed as to why the relationship ended. Even though they still loved each other, there alot of questions unanswered. And the person singing the song was hurt the most.
  How do I know?
  
  Experience.
  And I think Battersea is kind of like part 2. Same music. Just different. Basically the person trying to get over what happend.

  Flag Nek0Nekoon November 10, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:I luv this song, it's about betrayal. so sad.

  Flag dark_eyez_666on September 01, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:lyrically, this is Hoover at their finest. Sarah Brightman's cover is lovely, but I love the BWPM and SDaLt versions more.

  Flag laughing_manon September 20, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:I've been in a situation which just reflects Eden lyrics. I used to have a best friend who I secretly was in love with. I never tried to let him know because I was scared he would never take me as more a friend. And once he fell in love with a girl and didn't tell me. And, which is much worse, we estranged, he began to avoid me, to lie to me - as I found out later. And finally he betrayed me.
  
  As for my situation:
  "Did you ever think of me as your best friend?" - I know wonder if he ever really considered me as his best friend.
  "Did I ever think of you, I'm not complaining" - if it's not so, I would understand...
  "I never tried to feel this vibration" - I never expected that he would ever betray me, I couldn't see the signs of our friendship falling apart.
  "I never tried to reach your Eden" - I always wanted, but never tried to tell him how I loved him.
  "Did I ever think of you as my enemy?" - I ask myself and answer is "yes", after all we've been through.
  "Did you ever think of me?" - it's kind of desperation, maybe this person not only didn't count me as his best friend, but never really cared about me at all.
  "I'm complaining" - I finally admit. Another example of desperation, of regret.
  
  So that story's in the past, but maybe it would come close to the real meaning of this great song.

  Flag Child of Venuson August 06, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:i think she just fell in love with a guy, who obviously doesn't want her as his gf. so she asks questions, how he felt about her, as a friend, as an enemy?
  &she apologizes for loving him; she never meant to love him it just accidently happened, she's probably just insecure.

  Flag lisasphyxiaon September 28, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:When I hear this, I picture the narrator of the song silently observing her old boyfriend. The two might have just broken or he might be at the grocery store with another woman. I feel like the lyrics are all in her mind, though, because of the phrase "Did I ever think of you, As my enemy." She's being retrospective, perhaps blaming herself for the failure of their relationship. The 'Eden' is the perfect relationship that the partner wanted, but that she kept them from.

  Flag ArchetypeRyanon April 10, 2006   Link

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  General Comment:When I hear this, I picture the narrator of the song silently observing her old boyfriend. The two might have just broken or he might be at the grocery store with another woman. I feel like the lyrics are all in her mind, though, because of the phrase "Did I ever think of you, As my enemy." She's being retrospective, perhaps blaming herself for the failure of their relationship. The 'Eden' is the perfect relationship that the partner wanted, but that she kept them from.

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  General Comment:this song always makes me cry!!!!

  Flag white flyon March 17, 2006   Link

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  General Comment:I changed my mind on this one.
  
  I think she's trying to casually ask what he thinks of her...and by the end she admits that yes, she really is complaining.
  
  winglessdreamer-- I think when she says 'i never tried to reach your eden," maybe she means that she never tried to reach that secret part of him...she never tried to get to know him fully like she probably should have.

  Flag AlairaKasimeron January 13, 2006   Link

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