Love Comes Quickly

The lyrics suggest that love can arrive unexpectedly, even when someone believes they are content alone or tries to avoid emotional attachment. The speaker moves from describing loneliness and self-sufficiency to insisting that love eventually reaches everyone. The repeated refrain makes this feel less like a choice and more like a force that is hard to resist.

Several images express that idea simply. Living “heavy as stone” suggests a life weighed down by loneliness or emotional hardness. Love is “waiting round the corner,” as if it could appear suddenly in an ordinary place. Flying “to the end of the world” represents trying to escape, but the question “where does it get you?” implies that distance cannot solve the problem or prevent love.

The song sounds confident that love is nearly unavoidable, but its final claim is not necessarily a literal rule for every person. The speaker says they are speaking from experience, yet offers no details, so the words can be heard as personal advice rather than proof. There is also a slight tension: love may seem romantic, but the lyrics say romance is “no defence”—perhaps meaning that knowing love can be difficult does not protect someone from falling for another person.