When this came out in 2016 I hadn’t heard it. A friend sent it to me and told me what it made her think of… I don’t see what she saw, but I do see it’s reflection in other places. To me it is those words you say not realizing what you are doing to the person you speak to. “But you were mine” (past tense) and then to break that “I confessed a longing I was dreaming of, some better love.” But then to realize what you sought, you may lose because of chasing something imagined when what was truth is slipping away, “Darling, feel better love.”
I have been on both sides of this, the one so nearly lost and the one who has to confess that they were wrong or lose someone. In short I LOVE this song because it speaks deep of longing and loss and maybe redemption. “Darling, Darling, feel better love.”
Better Love
I once kneeled in shaking thrill
I chase the memory of it still, of every chill
Chided by that silence of a hush sublime
Blind to the purpose of the brute divine
But you were mine
Staring in the blackness at some distant star
The thrill of knowing how alone we are, unknown we are
To the wild and to the both of us
I confessed the longing I was dreaming of
Some better love, but there's no better love
Beckons above me and there's no better love
That ever has loved me, there's no better love
Darling, feel better love
Feel better love
And I've never loved a darker blue
Than the darkness I have known in you, own from you
You, whose heart would sing of anarchy
You would laugh at meanings, guarantees, so beautifully
When our truth is burned from history
By those who figured justice in fond memory, witness me
Like fire weeping from a cedar tree
Know that my love would burn with me
We'll live eternally
'Cause there's no better love
That beckons above me, there's no better love
That ever has loved me, there's no better love
So darling, feel better love
'Cause there's no better love
That's laid beside me, there's no better love
That justifies me, there's no better love
So darling, darling, feel better love
Feel better love
Feel better love
Feel better love
Feel better love
'Cause there's no better love
That beckons above me, there's no better love
That ever has loved me, there's no better love
So darling, feel better love
'Cause there's no better love
That's laid beside me, there's no better love
That justifies me, there's no better love
So darling, feel better love
Feel better love
Songwriters: Andrew John Hozier-Byrne
