Aubrey

The song recalls a love that never became a lasting relationship. The speaker feels longing and regret, imagining how much he would do to be near Aubrey again. The emotion grows from wondering why the love failed to openly missing her, while the ending suggests he has learned to live without the person he wanted, though the loss still matters.

The song compares the couple’s hearts to instruments that “never played in tune”: they may have cared for each other, but did not fit together. A melody without its rhyming words may sound pleasant yet lack meaning, suggesting that their connection seemed beautiful but was incomplete. The missed arrival of “June” may stand for a hoped-for new beginning or a chance for the relationship to grow; the speaker wonders whether he simply failed to notice what was happening.

There is an important tension in the speaker’s account: he says he loved Aubrey, but also admits, “I never knew her.” This could mean their closeness was brief, distant, or mostly imagined, so his grief may be as much for the possibility of love as for a shared life. His wish that she had been his “for a day” sounds modest, but also reveals how strongly he cherishes even the smallest imagined chance.