Lyrics from "I Know You Care" By Ellie Goulding.
"Clinging to me, Like a last breath you would breathe. You were like home to me. I don't recognize this street. Please don't close your eyes, don't know where to look without them. Outside the cars speed by, I never heard them until now. I know you care, I know it has always been there. But there's trouble ahead, I can feel it, you're just saving yourself when you hide it. Yeah i know you care. I see it in the way that you stare. As if there was trouble ahead and you knew it, I'll be saving myself from the ruin... I used to run down the stairs, to the door and I thought you were there, to shape to the comfort of us, two lovers loved out of love."
I feel like these song lyrics play with language by creating an emotional connection with the listener. I think Ellie Goulding does this by making us imagine the aftermath of a failed romantic relationship as she uses short, emotive sentences in her lyrics. Her use of repetition with the words "I know" make us imagine her creating this self belief that the relationship can be fixed and creates a overall mood of desperation and love. I think the lyrics are written in second person as she uses no names or any reference to anyone else except for saying 'you' to help us establish there is someone else connected with this song.
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