Europe: Carrie Meaning
Carrie Lyrics
I see no reason for you to cry,
We've been through this before.
In every time, in every season,
God knows I've tried
So please don't ask for more.
Can't you see it in my eyes?
That this might be our last goodbye.
Carrie,...
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It’s about saying goodbye, but not being completely committed to the concept, wishing there was a way it could work. I believe this guy can read her unspoken body language and she’s saying we something undeniably with her eyes. She’s not as into him as she likes to put on, but keeps holding on to him instead of finding what she’s really looking for. And while he would love to be the one, he can’t hang around just to be the one she’ll settle for. The option that she keeps coming back to.
He wants her. But, she’s made it clear. He can see it in her eyes and he’s asking if she can see what he’s saying in his.
He’s angry because he has to end it. He’d rather it would have worked out (whatever the relationship was he wanted it)
But, he’s choosing his self. He’s not willing to be played for a fool. So he’s walking away with the bit of pride he has left, with the broken heart, and
holding on to that sliver of hope, against the odds, that she’ll realize what she’s lost. Yet, he’s not waiting around.
The emotions are real…. -
Wow, soul searching in the midst of a break from a long term boyfriend, googled my name specifically to find it in a song: I find „Carrie“ (spelled with one xtra „r“ than mine) and it blew me away! Written the year my world of relational hurts began. I had never hear it. It explains down to the intensity of the emotion, what I am currently going through in this relationship. I am blown away.
For me, it describes what my boyfriend of almost 4 years is saying to me through this „temporary“ break.
He has let go of his original promise that “He needed me. He found me. He‘s Keeping me. That he loves me“ said in a my ear first and then in a card.
He can’t stop loving me. But he feels what we were to be was destroyed. (No cheating. Just the destructive interference of his ex-wife…that ultimately came between us.) He is begging ….by an abrupt shift in communication (he stopped reaching out daily during this “temporary“ break that we agreed to and he is hoping I will let it be a permanent one for now and maybe forever…
In my heart and soul I feel he has let go and doesn’t want this or just doesn’t have the energy to fight through the opposition.
It’s ripping me apart because I wasn’t looking for him. It just happened and he sought me.
Until, his ex (who left him) starts using how well he treats me to lay massive unimaginable guilt trips on him…victimizing him. playing on the love he thought he was in when she suddenly ripped apart his world…. there was someone new foe her.)
After 3 years soul searching, he finds me, I say yes. I was his first step forward…his realization that his former “ship had sailed“
And bit by bit. Her poison sets in. we break up. get back together. Me. Him. Me. Him. Him. Him.
We lost that chance. He knows it. I know. It.
But I am not ready to let go. Yet he‘s begging me to, knowing I have the power to reel
him in, is begging me to just let it go
“He reads my mind with no intentions“ He sees me, knows me, knows what I need, knows how he never stopped feeling the love and devotion to her, knows she doesn’t have that for him…..
He does not know what will change and when if it ever does, but he knows our lives and our desires (all 3) are in constant internal conflict. And it’s just too intense. Too much.
„We been through this before“ sees no reason for my tears…because he knows how I hurt because I know his feelings for her…just that emotional tie that causes me to feel cheated…
And him to feel pulled apart…
He knows I know. He knows I understand what he‘s asking. Without words I know. And he knows, through it all I still want him. I‘d endure the pain. But he‘s refusing to let me hurt.
So, he is putting his foot down…firmly yet gently at the same time. Holding my hand…my fingertips…until I am strong enough to release my grip. And yet I feel his soul…our souls…the love against our wills …..still reaching for each other….
knowing we have to let go.
Neither wants to admit it‘s forever, but we both know we will fill the pain with others..
So he takes the lead and is silently begging I give way to what must be…
The final goodbye. ….
We are both in the same field. He in the height of his and climbing. Me pressing to get to the height of mine.
And in the height mine, just a few years off, our “Maybe we‘ll meet again“ is an absolute. But will we “meet“? or will our lives be entangled with others and yet when we meet again…. there’s this knowing that our hearts and our bodies will still be aching for each other…
and then what?
“Carrie“ seems written for “Carie“. Not one lyric out of place….
This….could….be our last goodbye…. Oh ohhhh. Carie Carie
He begs …. please just let me go…. to resolve myself to reality, that I failed, again. Myself. You.
Let him free with the notion of again….believe the lie that allows him to let go. The lie of an Again.
Maybe he wants the again and knows tho if he doesn’t let go we will destroy that possibility…
The song is….Us! Unimaginably sad and painful and yet astoundingly beautiful. A masterpiece! Wow!
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Carrie is definitely a song about a guy who's had his fun with the girl "when lights go down" he sees no reason for her tears because, he feels, he's never lied to her. He's done with the affair and no longer chooses to be with her on the down low. The fact that he says they've been through it before and he wishes he could explain...further implicates it was a relationship on the side..off and on cheating. Honestly, this is very much the song of a narcissist.
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I think she is jealous or finds fault in him and keeps breaking up with him. He keeps saying that "this might be our last goodbye." He's telling her that he's really trying but her expectations of him are unreal.
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It seems to me, the guy got tired of her, and he is ready to move on. For instance, some of the guys from the past and today did the same thing to women. These guys are smooth talkers, and they know how to trick these women in believing anything he says.
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It means they are friends.Carrie loves the s man more than he loves her or he loves her sooooo much and is afraid to be loved by a Real Woman who knows how to give him everything he's ever wanted and make love to each other but he just wants to keep his life the way it is because he is in control and doesent want to lose control and if he goes to Carrie when may be a little younger he's afraid whatnpeople will think.Dont wait or hesitate just run
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She had enough of his pretty boy bullshit and cheated.
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She cheated on him ! She was crying about it and he was hurt. Hell yeah. Thats how i see it.
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It's about saying good-bye and thinking something like 'Maybe we will see each other again...Maybe....' Kind of like, this is just a goodbye and Maybe one day we will see each other again.
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And I think you are an Idiot
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I think that this song is about Stephen King's Carrie ...
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