What do you think A Thousand Years means?

Christina Perri: A Thousand Years Meaning

Album cover for A Thousand Years album cover

Song Released: 2011


Covered By: Jasmine Thompson


A Thousand Years Lyrics

Verse 1)
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. anonymous
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     Nov 10th 2012 !⃝

    This song means that you finally meet someone who you connect with. You share the same interests, you trust that person with your life. They don't see your relationship as you do and they just continue going on with their everyday life. You desperately want and feel the need to tell tem how you feel because will never forget this person and your biggest fear is them not recognizing you in a thousand years. This song is about how you are in love with someone and you are always going to be in love with them and you don't know how to handle the situation. This song is about putting yourself out there only to realize that love is a two way street and you feel like a failure once you realize they don't love you back. The other person might find you to be speacial although, they will never love you, when you have been trying to find this person for a thousand years. This song is about how you have made it this far in the game of love and find the one, but they don't nessisarily see you at first.

  2. anonymous
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     Sep 29th 2012 !⃝

    Where the impact of the song hits the hardest is the part, "watching you stand alone" because feeling alone and being alone are two completely different things. The one who goes it alone is much more admirable than the one who doesn't yet feels as though they do.

    For this to be from a female perspective is different, I think, because it nearly implies courage, strength, and rescue when these are usual "male" "qualities." For her to truly feel this way is paramount because her waiting has everything to do with constraints and his does not. An unbalanced appraoch to love which will, eventually, create a chemical imbalance in the brain.

    I felt that way before. And I still feel.that and hoping that he does not "stand alone" though I do not have to be brave to conquer all to be there for him, I can only hope that someone is.

    Those are rare earth elements that only fall into us once in a lifetime, and it is from these few blazing trials
    that we can learn much more than we ever could have expected about something much bigger than ourselves. An urge to sacrifice, but for unity and not because you are expected to.

    The thousand years commemorates this feeling because it feels so unique...which it is! Not in a thousand years or more could you ever know what knowing someone without knowing them means!

  3. anonymous
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     Sep 29th 2012 !⃝

    It's about a girl liking a boy, and she isn't sure if he likes her back. She suddenly realizes that she loves him, and has loved him all along. Every time that boy flirts or says something sweet to her, it is the part of the lyrics when Christina Perri sings one step closer. The girl hopes that he loves her as much as she loves him, but she needs to be brave and tell him

  4. anonymous
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     Aug 29th 2012 !⃝

    Loving someone so deep and she cant move on. Her love for him too strong and it hurt her much more than him. She always be the one to blamed for all the messy things happened. she dont care as long it will make the person she loves happy and satisfied.

    E.

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  5. anonymous
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     May 14th 2012 !⃝

    Dis song iz da bomb. dis song means 2 luv and cherish da 1 u hav.

  6. anonymous
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     May 10th 2012 !⃝

    It means that she loves him but he loves someone else and "beuty in all she is" is the girl he loves but the girl loves him but he loves someone. so the guy who she loves is her very first love and doesnt want to let that go so she will wait a "Thousand Years".

  7. anonymous
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     Mar 24th 2012 !⃝

    It's about bein inlove.
    The girl is afraid but something about the guy makes everything better she realizes she loves him and always will. So she let's her gaurd down but sometimes things or people get in the way, eveyone doubts they'll last but no one understands there love.
    She will face anything that comes there way because she never wants to lose him. She's inlove with him and so is he.
    She will always love him

  8. anonymous
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     Mar 24th 2012 !⃝

    It's about love

  9. anonymous
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     Mar 21st 2012 !⃝

    its about a woman tries to convince the man she loves that she is a thousand years old evil, wicked and dangerous witch.

    run for your life.

  10. anonymous
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     Mar 13th 2012 !⃝

    This is a love song from God to you.

  11. anonymous
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     Mar 10th 2012 !⃝

    I am aware that this song was used in the movie, "Twilight." However, I do not think this song is just about Edward and Bella.
    I think it is about someone who has loved someone else and watched them as they engaged with other people. I think that it is about them knowing that the person they love is the one for them, and just waiting and knowing that eventually they'll realize that they belong there all along. <3

  12. anonymous
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     Mar 9th 2012 !⃝

    Could be the love of marriage. Then the love of a child.

  13. anonymous
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     Mar 1st 2012 !⃝

    its d best romantic song. suits bella and edward to a t. a thousand years may sound exaggeration but those who are in love won't think its exaggeration:). don't you think???

  14. anonymous
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     Dec 12th 2011 !⃝

    Okay, it's talking about a wedding march basically. Saying that she sees him standing alone at the alter and she is "one step closer". Of course its about love and being hurt and loving some one forever.

  15. anonymous
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     Dec 4th 2011 !⃝

    it's about waiting for someone who will be the one for you... who will love you just the way you are... who will just look you in they eye... who will always gets you...

    waiting for that person... it is worth it... when that moments comes when you met the right person... the wait worth a thousand years... and you will love that person a thousand more years.

    it doesn't matter if that person i already the one you know or any person who will come in your life.
    i just love this song. it's beautiful. very suitable for wedding songs.

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