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What does it mean?
Love has ended and the speaker urges lovers to stop hoping.
In plain terms
Love is gone so stop dreaming about it.
What can you take from it?
Let go when love is clearly over.

Where it applies

  • heartbreak
  • ending relationships
  • moving on

Putting it to work

  • accept breakup
  • focus on self

Questions to consider

  • When is it time to let go?
  • How do you know love is dead?

Another view

Love often revives after periods of despair.

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