You were mine

The speaker is struggling to accept that a former partner has found someone new. At first, she focuses on what she has lost and hopes he will return. The repeated nighttime crying and calling his name show how deeply the separation affects her. Later, she brings their children into the picture, shifting the sadness toward worry about how his choice will affect them.

The wedding photographs stand for a shared past that once seemed happy and lasting, but their fading suggests that even cherished memories cannot keep a relationship alive. The question of what right the new partner has to “take” him expresses jealousy and hurt; it also reveals that the speaker sees love as something that can be claimed, even though he has chosen to leave. The children are called “two good reasons” to stay, making them an appeal to his sense of responsibility as well as a sign of the family they built.

The song can be heard as a portrait of grief and denial, not as proof that the former partner should return. The speaker remembers their love sincerely, yet her hope that he is coming home clashes with the reality that he has changed his mind. Her concern for the children may be both a genuine plea and an attempt to find a reason he might come back.