Righteous Brothers: Unchained Melody Meaning

Song Released: 1965

Unchained Melody Lyrics

Oh.. my love.. my darling
I've hungered for your touch a long.. lonely time
Time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?
I need your love
I need your love
God speed your love to me

Lonely rivers flow to the sea.....

1. drcbeau

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   Feb 25th 2016 !⃝

   Hearing the song takes me to thoughts of a love I've felt for over 30 years...life has kept us apart but the love is still there even stronger. But when reading it I felt it was about a much deeper loss... love lost to death.
2. Artemis

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   Sep 12th 2015 !⃝

   Music has a different meaning for each person. The composer has his meaning for the song too, but it holds its own reference and memory in hearts differently. For me, it is about a love lost through life but still very much alive and hopeful that the beloved will please, please return.
3. anonymous

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   Oct 1st 2014 !⃝

   I sang this to my daughter at her wedding. It represented the heartache I felt as I "lost" my daughter, hoping she'd still be mine although she was now a married woman.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
4. anonymous

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   Aug 16th 2014 !⃝

   My boyfriend is in jail. When i heard this song i thought of him.
5. youknowimgreat

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   Mar 4th 2014 !⃝

   A man is singing to a woman because he's interested in her. He notifies other men are getting her attention and wants to know if she is still interested in him. He wants to touch her so bad and is waiting for her divorce to pass so he can make a move.
6. anonymous

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   Apr 12th 2013 !⃝

   the true interpratation is that this song comes from a prison film (unchained) and the guy is in prison and it is missing his lover, and promise will come back to her.
7. anonymous

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   Mar 4th 2012 !⃝

   Its about a loved one who has passed away and they are waiting for the other to pass so they can be together for eternity.
8. anonymous

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   May 22nd 2011 !⃝

   No the song is about a convict letter to his girlfriend, there is no other meaning, that is it. It was written for some 1955s prison film.
9. anonymous

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   May 5th 2011 !⃝

   I think this song leaves room for your own story and interpretation of it.
10. m320753

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    Feb 21st 2011 !⃝

    The music for this song is frm the movie from here to eternity and was played during a scene on the beach with burt lancaster and i think donna reed? down the years someone put words to the music which for all intents from the scene is an illicit love affair between the 2 actors. at the time around 1954 it was considered the closest thing to sex on the big screen. every one knew what was going to happen but back then they wouldn't dare to show it. so basically it's a love song about an affair between a man and women in WW II. it also was the movie that put sinatra back in the public spotlight. the scene in the godfather with the horse in bed was a take off on how the mob put the screws to hollywood to get him the part.a 4 star movie i believe
11. anonymous

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    Feb 17th 2011 !⃝

    I think it's about waiting for a loved one.
12. hong2563

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    Oct 20th 2008 !⃝

    I understood this song as an antiwar song
    First of all, this guy says He has hungered for her love and asks if she still his - meaning that he has gone away from her for a while.
    Second is the line "lonely rivers flow to the sea to the sea" Rivers symbolize men recruited and, of course, sea means whereever he is sent to. Also, at that verse, he says "I'll be coming home wait for me", meaning that he'll be coming back from the war.
    In addition to that, the time this song this was release was 1965, during the Vietnam War and when Anti-Vietnam war movements were being held.
13. anonymous

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    Jun 11th 2007 !⃝

    This song, most definitely, is about a bloke getting out of jail and wondering if his lover has waited for him, or has abandoned him for someone else. Hence the 'Unchained'.
14. anonymous

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    Sep 4th 2006 !⃝

    I think it´s not about someone who lost a love in death but about someone who was simply left by the other person and cannot let go. It´s about heartache.
15. jasoka@msn.com

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    Nov 9th 2005 !⃝

    I am having a debate with my husband on the meaning of this song. I think it is about someone who lost a love in death and cannot let go.
    
    Does anyone else have the answer?

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