Paul Westerberg – Love Untold

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  General Comment:More likely about a grownup looking back at an earlier more innocent love he almost had. He is writing a song about it. Melancholic and at the same time idealising an older simpler time.
  
  The underwear line kills me each time :)
  
  I love the song more than anything for its empathatic nature. Heartbreak especially of the more innocent type is often left unshared or untold, possibly cuz its just too difficult to convey it coherently or convincingly (mebbe that's why we resort to old long songs). and the song is basically about those loves untold we hold on to most privately.
  
  each time i hear this, of all the things it reminds me of the death scene of the Batty android in Blade Runner. all about how impossible there are some things and joys and pains one has had to convey adequately. how one carries these with em, these hurts.
  
  anyways, a masterwork in its simplicity and ability to tap into a really emotional truth.
  

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  General Comment:jenseda is spot on about this song. As much an aknowledgement of the "perfection" of those imagined relationships that never came to be as being just as imagined as the scenario itself, as it is a beatuiful description of unrequited love and of course the rituals of the dating game.

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  General Comment:I echo every sentiment expressed by winker, including the ones about tearing up over the video and Paul Schaeffer being annoying.

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  General Comment:I can't explain how many unrequited teenage relationships to which I would like to apply this song. (4 actually). However, I think that as beautiful and hopeful as the song is, I believe that there is an undercurrent to the song which is an indication of the author's knowledge of his self-deception. Paul knows that he can sing this song because nothing ever worked out and that a relationship had appeared, it would not have remained this flawless dream. Rather it would have died in the insecurities and arrogances which each of us hold.

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  General Comment:This song has to be the most ultra-true story ever told. Who hasn't been there and felt all those feelings? First time I saw the video I got tears in my eyes. One of Paul's best works. I have the dvd of his performance of this song on Letterman and it's awesome if you can block out moron Paul Shaffer's off-key crooning in the background.

  Flag winkeron December 19, 2004   Link

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  General Comment:Does anyone recall,
  The saddest love of all?
  The one that lets you fall
  With nothing to hold
  
  It's a love untold
  It's a love untold
  
  Once upon a love untold
  Once upon a love untold...
  
  
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  Oh yes, I recall...

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