Wedding Song Lyrics
I love you more than money and more than the stars above
I love you more than madness, more than waves upon the sea
I love you more than life itself, you mean that much to me.
I've said goodbye to haunted rooms and faces in the street
In the courtyard of the jester which is hidden from the sun
I love you more than ever and I haven't yet begun.
When I was deep in powerty you taught me how to give
Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from the hole
I love you more than ever and it burns me to the soul.
Eye for eye and tooth for tooth, your love cuts like a knife
My thoughts of you don't ever rest, they'd kill me if I lie
But I'd sacrifice the world for you to watch my senses die.
We'll play it out the best we know, whatever it is worth
What's lost is lost, we can't regain what went down in the flood
But happiness to me is you and I love you more than blood.
Nor is it my intention to sound a battle charge
'Cause I love you more than all of that with a love that doesn't bend
And if there is eternity I'd love you there again.
And I was born to be with you, you were born to be my bride
You're the other half of what I am, you're the missing piece
And I love you more than ever with a love that doesn't cease.
Just being next to you is a natural thing for me
And I could never let you go, no matter what goes on
'Cause I love you more than ever now that the past is gone.
Hmm, my perception of this one seems to differ a bit from most of the other posts here. It's certainly filled with a lot of loving sentiment, but the tone of the song itself and the way he sings it sound very longing, almost as though he's trying to convince the person it's directed toward of what he's saying. Lines like "Oh, can't you see that you were born to stand by my side" even sort of hint at this interpretation, and "What's lost is lost, we can't regain what went down in the flood" certainly suggests some "trouble in paradise", so to speak; It's the last song on the album before "Blood on the Tracks", and I think it's very much paving the way for the heartbreak, loss, and sorrow so thoroughly explored on that album, a stark contrast to the domestic bliss portrayed on the rest of "Planet Waves".
Just my two cents.
Aww, love. Wait, this came at the end of Dylan's marriage. On an album with songs like Dirge. After a seven-year disappearance from real music. Living with his family. Happily. Maybe not such a love song. And if you listen to what he's saying, he's pleading with his wife not to leave him. Like the Desire song, Sara. Welcome back to music, Bob. But it comes at a cost.
This is singly the greatest and most eloquent love song ever written.
great songg !! .. dylan is amazing
hopefully i play this song when i marry!!
epic love song.
epic love song.
it's so full of love it's amazing, it's purely about that one eternal subject. this is something i want to sing to somebody, sometime.
Such a beautiful song, written from the heart.
A highlight of P.W. for sure. Dylan knows how to make the music fit the words and the music says "all's not well". It certainly expresses love magnanimously, but the tone of the tune confirms the malady occasionally hinted at in the lyrics. Thin_Paper_Walls has it nailed with "trouble in paradise".