Under a blackened sky
Far beyond the glaring streetlights
Sleeping on empty dreams
The vultures lie in wait
You lay down beside me then
You were with me every waking hour
So close I could feel your breath
When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold that precious little thing
Like every generation yields
The new born hope unjaded by their years
Pressed up against the glass
I found myself wanting sympathy
But to be consumed again
Oh, I know wouldn't be the death of me
And there is a love that's inherently given
A kind of blindness offered to appease
And in that light of forbidden joy
Oh, I know, I won't receive it
When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold that precious little thing
Like every generation yields
A newborn hope unjaded by their years
You know if I leave you now
It doesn't mean that I love you any less
It's just the state I'm in
I can't be good to anyone else like this
When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold that precious little thing
Like every generation yields
The new born hope unjaded by their years
Far beyond the glaring streetlights
Sleeping on empty dreams
The vultures lie in wait
You lay down beside me then
You were with me every waking hour
So close I could feel your breath
When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold that precious little thing
Like every generation yields
The new born hope unjaded by their years
Pressed up against the glass
I found myself wanting sympathy
But to be consumed again
Oh, I know wouldn't be the death of me
And there is a love that's inherently given
A kind of blindness offered to appease
And in that light of forbidden joy
Oh, I know, I won't receive it
When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold that precious little thing
Like every generation yields
A newborn hope unjaded by their years
You know if I leave you now
It doesn't mean that I love you any less
It's just the state I'm in
I can't be good to anyone else like this
When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold that precious little thing
Like every generation yields
The new born hope unjaded by their years
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I think this song is about having a baby. she really wants one...but it just isn't hapening. "When all we wanted was the dream to have and to hold that precious little thing" I think not being able to have one makes her unable to stay with this man. "You know if I leave you now It doesn't mean that I love you any less it's just the state I'm in I can't be good to anyone else like this"
I think it’s about a failed relationship. Being so in love with someone but knowing that you have to walk away and get yourself sorted out first. There’s an extremely deep love that started out with two people wanting the same thing but over time the skeletons came out and she can’t live anyone else until she loves and heals herself first.
Yeah love sucks
I am shocked that no one has commented on this gorgeous, meaningful song. It basically sounds like it's about a relationship where both people had a lot of dreams and those dreams have been shattered, and now she is jaded, but she wishes she could go back to innocence.
I don't know what it means truly but this song has always haunted me... one of my earliest favourite Sarah songs.
I don't know what it means truly but this song has always haunted me... one of my earliest favourite Sarah songs.
I also love the beat. Here's an interpretation:
She's singing from the viewpoint of an alcoholic (i.e. addict to whatever drug of choice) in a broken relationship and has come to terms that she needs a break from her habit first before she can attempt a try at the "dream" of "that precious little thing." ANyhow, I still love this song because of the emotional entry of that synth piano riff.
Peace
This song is truly haunting, the backround music is makes it sound very somber, but it is beautiful, and I like the lyrics too. "You know If I leave you now, It doesn't meant that I love you any less. . ."
truly beautiful song
The opening verse is an image of sterile dark wasteland, no people, no light. Her partner is very close, perhaps too close, but she feels isolated.
The chorus talks about how they wanted a child.
Pressed up against the glass...one of the viewing windows where you can see babies in the hospital? It makes her want the child she can't have even more the automatic love of a child for a mother but it would be the "death of her". She has a medical problem that keeps her from carrying safely.
The song ends with her walking out on her man. The relationship has broken on their failed attempt to have a child.
To me this is a song about failed (or failing) marriage and depression. She's feeling smothered, he's always around and she has no time for herself or her dreams. She maybe feels guilty that the relationship is ending ('to have and to hold'). The 'blindness offered to appease' is her going along with it all cos it's easier for her. And finally, she can't take it anymore; she has to leave, mostly because she had no business being in the relationship to begin with ('the state I'm in...') because of her condition.