Christina Perri: A Thousand Years Meaning
Song Released: 2011
Covered By: Jasmine Thompson
A Thousand Years Lyrics
Heart beats fast
Colors and promises
How to be brave
How can I love when I'm afraid
To fall
But watching you stand alone
All of my doubt
Suddenly goes away somehow
(Pre-chorus)
One step closer
(Chorus)
I have died...
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#1 top rated interpretation:This makes me think of my daughter, now five. She was not planned, I still don't know how she came to be but she's here. It's just me and her and I think she was always meant to be. We have our struggles but I love her and will do 'for a thousand years'. As we overcome our struggles we are just'one step closer'. Think we were always destined to be together and unbeknown to me, I have loved her for a thousand years.
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#2 top rated interpretation:My son was born with many complications including cancer at age three. He lived a good life but one complicated with rare illnesses which he would always win the battle with. So many times I was told he would not make it and I never believed in our capacity to beat the odds.
He grew up and fell in love and had a child. The cancer came back. Multiple cancers - stage IV. He went through immunity transplant with his brother. His brother wanted to give him his lung, his leg, whatever it took. I wanted to give up my job to be with him but his wife was at first by his side. By the time my son's health started failing miserably I realized that his wife had not been with him, taking care of him. She was out with another man, got pregnant with this man's child, moved this man into the house my son used to live in. I understood why his health failed...his heart broke at the callousness of another human being when he would never ever have done that to someone. He was too proud to tell us, to worry us, to bother us with this.
This song means to me my unconditional, unending love for his continued suffering without ever complaining. By his side we could beat anything but unrequited love during this precarious time did kill him. He is still with me in my heart. I long for a do over. A chance to find out sooner and to make a difference (but could I)? I couldn't mend his broken heart. But I waited for a thousand years to meet someone like him and this was my baby, my little boy, my young adult son, my grown son as a man with a child of his own. I will wait a thousand years to meet him again in another life time or in heaven. A piece of him lives forever in my heart. Always. -
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#3 top rated interpretation:This song is about waiting for the one. You've waited your entire life and you finally found them. But that person is scared. Scared of falling, letting their walls down. Afraid of being hurt. And you just want to reassure them that you've waited so patiently for them and you would never do anything to hurt them. And you'll continue to be patient with them and you'd never do anything to hurt them.all you want to do is love them.
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This song could be about a man/woman who dies, goes to heaven and fears he has broken the “oneness” he had with his wife on earth as death ended the marriage vow. He reaches back to his spouse who is left all alone, and seeing her grieving, he realizes she loves him greatly. To comfort her, he sends a message to her heart not to be afraid. Each day in heaven without her is a thousand years and he continues to love for a thousand more. He desires to continue the “oneness” even after physical death & she feeling and understanding him in her heart, agrees to “oneness” for eternity so they are one step closer to making their eternal dreams come true.
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The souls yearning for Oneness. Real love. God within yourself speaking to you to come home back to emptiness where love is waiting for you
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Even though this song is orginally from Christianna Perri (idk if i spelt that right lol)I am in love with this song.This song is very important to me because I am currently in a realishionship, and this song represents us so well. I always listen to this and just imagine me and that person together and it makes me happy. I hope other people out there will found someone as amazing i did:)
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Son,
Colours (memories), promises I made to you, I
will be brave for you. Take one step closer to me so we can talk. I see you alone. Every breath I take is for you.
Don’t be afraid, I will never forget you. I have loved you forever and will for eternity. Beauty is her name and that’s what she gave me knowing you. One step closer again. I loved you and will for another thousand years. Until we see each other again....x -
My sweet son passed from mental illness. He was the most beautiful man that anyone could imagine. His friends called him an angel, which he was. He suffered in silence alone for years and never complained. I think everyday of him, that I wish I would have known his pain, that I could have spared him the anxiety he went through everyday, somehow.
I loved my son more than life itself and this song speaks to everything I feel for him. I have loved and will love him for a thousand years. We’re connected and this song keeps me going, also that he knows wherever he is, that we will see each other again, and that nothing will ever change that. Dedicated to my beautiful baby boy! x
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I’d like to reach out to the mom who lost her son to cancer, interpretation #1.
We have a lot in common.
Thank you. -
My interpretation of this is not about romantic love but that of finding ourselves again. Self love. Discovering and accepting our true self as we should be.
I also see this song as the discovery for the love of God, spirituality or a higher self.
Either way the song is about an unconditional love.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This is a great song I actually feel this song it's literally my story of how I got rejected by the one that I love and I literally couldnt move on and I still can't.
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For me, this songs means that i've been wondering who he/she would be, until one day i found you, and I just need one more step closer to get to you, that i've died every day waiting for the person, i was never afraid, cause i would find you, and the person would love you for a thousnad years more.
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I think it's about Edward and Bella's love for each other in The Twilight Saga.
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Kind of my interpretation is we're all one step closer all along whatever way we believe is best for us
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When I went to Nashville to see my cousin I want to come up with a song from my favorite movie the greatest showman because I’ve always find different movies and record some music in my church and write it then Ben can write about ourselves to be in high school or something to come up with, then when we write the music we have a session near Nashville, and Chattanooga then the producer came in and talk to us, and he told us that love ballads is about desiring and being in love but me and Ben aren’t in love because we’re friends but we stuck with love ballads about Kate and William. Because they’ve been married about 27 years, maybe, that’s why I wrote it at my church and told our story to be who we are and make choices we choose to be in love but we’re glad we’re doing pop duets.
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It’s about missing someone for a very long time .Then finding them again and not letting go.Love it xxx
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I love this song it had more pop and fun to make more talented young artists, then I wrote it myself and then I ask my friend Luke to record with max then they can have more music I love. But I’m really into movie soundtrack. But I was online finding some movies on the soundtrack and see what I can do for movies. It’s so much fun.
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