Just Married

The lyrics describe someone watching the person they love marry someone else. The wedding party appears joyful, but the observer feels deep sadness and loss. The repeated refrain returns to the moment the couple drives away, emphasizing that the painful scene—and the singer’s sense of losing this person—keeps replaying in his mind.

The words “Just Married” on the car window are a simple public sign of the couple’s new life together, but for the observer they mark a painful separation. The bride’s white satin and lace make her beauty especially hard for him to bear. He says he “knew what was in store,” meaning he expected the wedding to hurt, yet “something made me come”: he felt compelled to see her one last time.

The song does not explain why the loved person chose someone else or what their earlier relationship was like. Its focus is the contrast between the couple’s visible happiness and the observer’s private grief. His visit may bring a kind of finality, but the repeated ending suggests that seeing the wedding has not made his feelings disappear.