Telling someone how you feel about them can be way harder than it should. This song features a narrator who obviously has some pretty serious feelings (and romantic interest) towards someone he has known for quite a while now, and he’s trying to figure out how he’s going to let her know that he wants his relationship with her to move from friendship to something heavier. It looks like telling her is his only option, too. He openly admits “There ain’t no way I’ll ever stop from loving now.” This doesn’t necessarily mean that he’s going to be telling her soon, though. When he says “I’m gonna try and show you somehow/Somehow…/Someday…”
Who knows when “someday” will come? To be honest, there’s a really good chance that it never comes…
I’ve always really enjoyed this song, and I feel like it would have been a great choice for a single. As an R.E.M. fan, I find the guitars pretty much irresistable, and I imagine Peter Buck would definitely be proud. This song just has such a big chorus, it’s a shame that it wasn’t sent out to promote Gold.
Great song.