This Year's Love

Album: White Ladder (1998)
Charted: 20
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  • This year's love had better last
    Heaven knows it's high time
    I've been waiting on my own too long
    And when ya hold me like you do
    It feels so right oh now
    I start to forget how my heart gets torn
    When that hurt gets thrown
    Feeling like you can't go on

    Turning circles and time again
    Cut like a knife oh now
    If ya love me got to know for sure
    'Cause it takes something more this time
    Than sweet, sweet lies oh now
    Before I open up my arms and fall
    Losing all control
    Every dream inside my soul
    When ya kiss me on that midnight street
    Sweep me off my feet
    Singing, "ain't this life so sweet?"

    This year's love had better last

    This year's love had better last

    'Cause who's to worry if our hearts get torn
    When that hurt gets thrown
    Don't ya know this life goes on?
    Won't ya kiss me on that midnight street?
    Sweep me off my feet
    Singing, "ain't this life so sweet?"

    This year's love had better last
    This year's love had better last
    This year's love had better last
    This year's love had better last
    This year's love had better last
    Woah woah woah I yeah
    This year's love had better last Writer/s: DAVID GRAY
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 15

  • AnonymousLove the song but his pronunciation of the lyrics?! I had to look them up to work out what he was saying. Sounded like ‘ this year’s lovin bedelay’!!!
  • Alan from New ZealandWe just held the most beautiful little intimate family wedding in our gardens and my stepdaughter played this for her brother as his bride came through the grounds and trees to the ceremony. It was all so magical with sunshine after a storm that I had to learn more about the song and music.
  • Jake from Australia Melbourne anybody else here from 2017?
    I love this song and feel like I can strongly relate to it. last year I was in a terrible break up. I found out I got cheated on and I did everything for this girl. But just about a month ago I got in contact with a girl I had a crush on 6 years ago when we were fairly young (12-13) and we both knew we liked each other. And now we have caught up a couple of times and our feelings have been shared and when I talk to her and see her I honestly feel like the happiest person in the world, I just want to make her mine as soon as I can
  • Katie from Telford, United KingdomThis song just came on the radio as i was crying about somone i like who doesn't like me back, really made me think.
  • Melinda from San Jose, CaI played this song during my Unity Candle lighting at my wedding.
    I fell in love with it while watching the "The Girl Next Door". Loved the piano part.
  • Kevin from Birmingham - England, United KingdomPerfect,beautiful,inspiring,emotional,delicate,uplifting and a love song that touches your very soul.
  • Laura from Perth, West Australiai love david gray, and i especially love this song. my ex used to sing this to me at kareoke, along with a few other david gray songs such as babylon, please forgive me and sail away. although i am now happily in a relationship and have a 4 month old baby girl, i cant help but think about him when i hear this song. he totally broke my heart and i thought i would never get over it, but knowing that i am now happier than ever, and that he is in the same place he was before i met him, kinda brings me comfort i still love david gray and love this song heaps!! the words are beautiful, and his voice is goegous!
  • Ella from Melbourne, AustraliaIt's about being hurt in the past, and being alone, but hoping that 'this year's love' will last. He really likes this girl, she sweeps him off his feet, but he's gotta know that 'sweet lies' won't hurt him again. By the end of the song, he's come to an understanding that 'whose to worry' if our hearts get torn. Life goes on, and he's gonna try again.

    This is one of the most beautifuls songs ever written. Seeing him perform it live nearly tore my heart out of my chest.
  • Sarah from Philadelphia, Pai heard this song at a wedding and then it started turning up everywhere i went. it is the most amazing song ive ever heard.
  • Melanie from Stafford, VaTo me this is definately the one song that I will never get tired of hearing. Thanks to everyone here and their comments my fiance and I have decided to make this our song to dance to for our first dance as husband and wife.
  • Amanda from New York City, Nythe person who wrote this song is hopelessly in love with someone and even though he knows that he will be left alone on a "midnight street" and that he will wind up hurt, he loves this girl so much that he does it to himself everytime. he is trying to be strong and say that "it takes something more this time" indicating that this has happened several times. what makes this song utterly heart breaking is not the slow piano playing or the pain that is blantantly in david gray's voice, its the fact that we can all relate to it in the sense that there will always be one person in your life that no matter what they do to you, you will always have difficulty not giving it another try.
  • Laura from Newcastle, Australiahey amanda:-)i think this song is trying to say that the love this guy/girl has found had better last unlike his other relationships that have failed, his other loves that he has lost. he says that 'heaven knows it's high time
    I've been waiting on my own too long' meaning like it says he waited for somebody to be with, somebody to love & love him back. he also says 'And when you hold me like you do
    It feels so right
    I start to forget how my heart gets torn
    When that hurt gets thrown
    Feeling like I can't go on' meaning that when she holds him in her arms he feels so content, so complete that he forgets about all the hurt & pain that he feels & is 'thrown' about when they fight. anyway that is what i think when i hear this song- hope it was some help.
  • Laura from Newcastle, Australiait is also in 'Crazy/Beautiful' starring Kirsten Dunst
  • Amanda from Palm Bay, Flcan some please tell me what they think it is trying to say? thanks!
  • Michelle from Montreal, United Statesi absolutly adore this song. in an online test it told me that this was my "love song" and it makes me swoon
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