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The speaker sees someone they still love, but she passes by without noticing them. This indifference makes the speaker feel forgotten and deeply hurt. The feeling then shifts from pain to a solemn promise: even if the speaker lives for a hundred years, they will keep thinking about her.

“Your eyes did not even turn toward me” makes the lack of attention feel complete, while “I saw you without your seeing me” emphasizes how one-sided the encounter is. The image of bitterness being “drowned” inside the speaker suggests that the hurt is swallowed rather than expressed. Saying that it “hurts down to life” is an intense way to describe emotional pain, not necessarily physical suffering.

The lyrics can be heard as devoted and tender, but also as trapped in the past: the speaker’s lasting attachment continues even though the other person seems to have moved on. “Joined to my existence” may express the feeling that love has become part of who the speaker is. It is unclear whether the promise to remember her is meant as romantic loyalty, sorrowful resignation, or both.