Love Again

The speaker begins believing that love is no longer possible. He feels too old and fixed in his habits, and he has started to expect loneliness. As the song develops, fear gives way to surprise and happiness: he finds himself close to someone and realizes he is falling in love again.

The image of shutting himself in, with windows closed and doors locked, suggests emotional self-protection. He has tried to keep out the pain of romance, but this isolation also keeps out the possibility of connection. “Afraid of the dark and the beat of my heart” links fear of uncertainty with fear of his own feelings. The question about a blind man seeing “more than just meets the eye” suggests that love can reveal value or meaning that is not immediately visible.

The speaker calls his situation a contradiction: he gave up on romance partly because he feared he might never love again. This could mean that avoiding love was a way to avoid disappointment, even as he still longed for it. His questions about magic and dreaming show that the change feels difficult to explain, not necessarily supernatural. By the end, his repeated words convey excitement and wonder, while leaving open whether he sees this new love as a lasting certainty or simply a joyful discovery.