this song describe a person who is lost and struggling to regain that which they have let go. The idea of “longing” could be interpreted as the protagonist being in search of something (love, acceptance, understanding) that was once there but somehow slipped away.
The songs you never sung
Are the ones you know
The longing never watered
Is the one that grows
The fog you see ahead
Is where you want to move
Before a sudden wind
Takes everything from you
The lips you haven’t met
They kiss you in your dreams
The longing never bared
Aches to be revealed
Hear me, follow this calling
I know you see me
Try to believe me
Hid away your longing will only grow
And you’ll only grow colder
You lived for love alone
At first it didn’t show
That it was love itself
You were letting go
The light that shone for once
It colours all you see
The longing never lost
Is the one you keep
Hear me, follow this calling
I know you see me, fear me
But try to believe me
Hid away your longing will only grow
And you’ll only grow older
The Longing was written by Tamino.
The Longing was produced by PJ Maertens & Jo Francken & Tamino & Pieterjan Maertens.