It is not a song about loosing someone to another, or to death (as the film clip might imply) but to someone just drifting away. Or perhaps, they just went backpacking LOL and I sense a wondering of where the person is now.something died or never was That one would pretend to 'sleep' rather than hear or care. 'i live a lie','believing that you are mine'.as is pointed out is like a love unrequited, not returned. The 'key' is perhaps the 'outro' lyrics that enigmatically drift out of the song at the end.Ĭontrary to the video clip, I think and may even have heard that is the loss of a 'love' through drugs or mental illness and decline. This song always struck me as being not only beautiful but 'unusual' in that way. Often there is is irony and in music there is often contradictions, it's not just lyrics.

General CommentI've always loved this song and songs and lyrics 'mean' different things depending on how it moves you, the place and time you heard it, a 'turn of phrase' and all those things. And interestingly, both interpetations give the same meta-meaning to the song, that is the pain and dignity of an individual experiencing loss. The 'you're leaving me behind' lyric takes on a new meaning in this context.īoth interpretations are valid. Considering the lyrics based on this, it is clearly about loss, but loss due to death rather than rejection. The music video repeatedly cuts to an old man whose facial expressions, looking up, painful acceptance in his eyes, indicates he is thinking of his deceased life partner. The second interpretation is a lot easier to 'get' if you see the Music Video for the song, and a screening of the music video on the Australian Music TV program Rage has been uploaded to youtube. Thus, it the lyrics evoke pain and dignity.

My first interpretation is the most obvious one - the lyrics point to the pining and loss felt by a rejected lover 'you're leaving me behind.' The rejected one is not angry or even destabilised, but aware of the way she was commited and cleaved to the one who spurned her 'I was only ever running back to your side'. It was successful on the Australian charts, but not phenomenally.

General CommentAs far as I know Wendy Matthews was first to perform this song. After this long is there nothing I'll keep

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