You Make Me Feel
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The speaker is alone and still deeply attached to someone who has left. They plead for the person to return and offer the relationship another chance, while admitting they cannot understand the other personโs feelings. The repeated request suggests that longing has not faded, even though the relationship seems painful and uncertain.
Several images express this pain. โMy heartโs still bleedingโ is a metaphor for emotional hurt, not a physical injury. โSalt in my eyesโ likely means tears, with salt making the sadness vivid. The image of burying their love โon the ground of an oceanโ suggests a relationship lost or hidden beneath something vast and difficult to reach.
The speaker reads mixed signals: the other person seems to laugh while crying, and their heart appears โin disguise,โ as if their true feelings are concealed. Yet the speaker also cannot bring themself to say goodbye. The line โYou make me feel like never againโ is unclear and may be an unusual or incomplete expression; it could suggest that the speaker fears they will never feel this way again, or that the relationship leaves them feeling unable to move forward. The lyrics leave unresolved whether reunion is possible or wise.