Always Wanting You

The speaker describes a painful love that cannot become a relationship. He wants and loves someone but cannot be with them, so each new day brings the same longing. At first, he looks back with regret: before seeing this person again, he felt his life was settled. The song moves between that regret and the repeated, ongoing ache of desire.

“Face tomorrow” suggests more than getting through a single day: tomorrow means another day of waking up with the same unfulfilled wish. The line about the speaker’s life being “all together” presents his earlier life as ordered and manageable, now unsettled by love. The feeling “across the room” implies a moment of mutual attraction, conveyed through looks rather than an explicit conversation.

The speaker believes the other person felt a similar yearning, but he also says their shared hopes “could never be.” The lyrics do not explain why they cannot be together, so the barrier could be circumstance, commitment, or something else. His wish that he had known earlier suggests he may regret letting himself hope, though he does not regret the feelings themselves. The repeated refrain keeps the ending unresolved: he expects the longing to continue.