Can't go on singing the same theme, 'cause baby, can't you see, we've got everything going on? Every time you go away, you take a piece of me with you.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the emotional impact of separation in a relationship.
In this quote, Paul Young highlights the deep emotional connection experienced in a romantic relationship. The lyrics convey a sense of yearning and loss when a loved one is not present, suggesting that their absence diminishes the speaker's sense of wholeness and joy, emphasizing how intertwined their lives have become.
In practice
Sharing the quote during a wedding toast to highlight the depth of love.
Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.
Understanding and Love are not two separate things, but just one. To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living beings with the eyes of compassion. When you understand, you cannot help but love. And when you love, you naturally act in a way that can relieve the suffering of people.
Know that My Heart is mercy itself. From this sea of mercy graces flow out upon the world....I desire that your heart be an abiding place of My mercy. I desire that this mercy flow out upon the whole world through your heart.
The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.
Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
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