| All good things (come to an end) (Nelly Furtado) | 
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				(Canada) | 
A poetical song, difficult to understand with your head, 'cause the lyrics speak straight to your heart. Do you think it's sad? Listen to it twice.
Ah, ah, ah, ahhh...
 
 Honestly, what will become of me? 
 (I) Don't like reality 
 It's way too clear to me 
 But, really, life is dandy
 We are what we don't think 
 Miss everything daydreaming 
 
 Flames to dust 
 Lovers to friends 
 Why do all good things come to an end? 
 
 Flames to dust 
 Lovers to friends 
 Why do all good things come to an end? 
 
 Travelling, I only stop at exits 
 Wondering if I'll stay
 Young and restless 
 Living this way I stress less 
 I want to pull away when the dream dies 
 The pain sets in and I don't cry 
 I only feel gravity and I wonder why 
 
 Flames to dust 
 Lovers to friends 
 Why do all good things come to an end? 
 
 Flames to dust 
 Lovers to friends 
 Why do all good things come to an end? 
 
 Come to an end 
 Come to an...
 Why do all good things come to an end?
 
 Come to an end 
 Come to an...
 Why do all good things come to an...?
 
 And the dogs were whistling a new tune 
 Barking at the new moon 
 Hoping it would come soon 
 So that they could... 
 
 Dogs were whistling a new tune 
 Barking at the new moon 
 Hoping it would come soon 
 So that they could die 
 (Diee... Diee... Dieeee... Dieeeeeee...) 
 
 Flames to dust 
 Lovers to friends 
 Why do all good things come to an end?
 
 Flames to dust 
 Lovers to friends 
 Why do all good things come to an end?
 
 Come to an end 
 Come to an...
 Why do all good things come to an end?
 
 Come to an end
 Come to an...
 Why do all good things come to an (end)
 
 When the dogs were barking at the new moon 
 Whistling a new tune 
 Hoping it would come soon 
 
 And the dogs were barking at the new moon 
 Whistling a new tune hoping it would come soon 
 So that they could die
I haven't heard Nelly speaking, but I can bet her accent is not exactly the  same as here singing. Many singers in Britain or America (or anywhere else) put  on a peculiar accent when they are singing because they think it sounds more  romantic or more cool or whatever. For instance, it is easy to notice she  doesn't pronounce the R's, though in Canada people do pronounce the R's. She's  probably under the influence of American black English and trying to sound cool,  or under British influence and trying to sound posh (more poetical).
 
 HONESTLY= We start a sentence with this word to emphasize what we’re going to  say. It literally means "I’m going to tell the truth".
 
 WHAT WILL BECOME OF ME?= What will my future be?
 
 WAY TOO CLEAR= Much too clear, too too clear. We can use WAY to emphasize TOO.
 
 DANDY= good, nice.
 
 WHAT= If we find WHAT in a statement (not a question) it usually means "the  thing that". The sentence "we are what we don’t see" means that what we  see of us is only appearance, our true identity is invisible.
 
 (WE) MISS EVERYTHING= The subject WE is missing, but we know it is the same as  the previous sentence. When you miss something you don’t get it, you lose it,  you don’t experience it.
 
 DAYDREAMING= Fantasizing (like having a dream but not sleeping). She says that  if we live in a fantasy and don’t face reality, we miss all the important things  of life. But people think life is horrible, so they prefer to escape reality by  daydreaming.
 
 FLAMES TO DUST= An abbreviation of "flames turn to dust", "flames become dust".  If something is burning, first you get flames (a good thing, because flames give  you light and warmth), but then the good thing finishes and all you get is dust  (cold dark dirt).
 
 LOVERS TO FRIENDS= In the same way as flames finally turn to dust, love also  cools down, passion dies and lovers become friends. Friendship is good, but if  you want to keep the passion, you will not appreciate the friendship that comes  later and then love will disappear completely.
 
 WHY DO ALL GOOD THINGS COME TO AN END?= This is the desperate question of  someone who still doesn’t understand true reality. A person that only sees death  where something new is beginning. The whole song is giving an answer to this question.
 
 EXIT= the way out.
 
 WONDERING= If you wonder, you are curious about something and you want to know.
 
 RESTLESS= Never still (not resting), dissatisfied.
 
 STRESS= To stress is to emphasize, to highlight, to make prominent/important. 
 
 LIVING THIS WAY I STRESS LESS= She says that if she’s only noticing exits (the  end of things) and wanting to stay young and restless, she will miss the  important things of life, the highlights.
 
 PULL AWAY= To withdraw, to retreat, to move away, to leave.
 
 THE PAIN SETS IN= When something sets in, it begins to happen.
 - The night finally set in and everything turned black.
 
 I ONLY FEEL GRAVITY= Gravity is a force that pulls you down to earth, so  poetically, to feel gravity is to feel sad.
 
 I WONDER WHY= I don’t know why and I want to know. When you wonder /wʌndə*/ you don't understand something, but would like to know.  
 
 WHISTLING= /wɪslɪŋ/ The verb to whistle is pronounced /wɪsəl/,  the T is silent. To whistle is to produce a sound or a melody by forcing air out  through your rounded lips.
 
 TUNE= /tju:n/ Melody, music. An assimilation rule says that T+Y=CH, so this word is usually pronounced /tʃu:n/ in modern English (both BrE and AmE)
 
 BARK= People speak, cats meow and dogs bark. To bark at the new moon is to bark  in that direction, as if the moon were listening to them.
 
 The figure of the dogs barking at the new moon is poetical and obscure (not  clear to understand). The new moon is the phase of the moon when it is invisible  (completely dark), so it is part of the cycle where the moon is "dead". But at  the same time, we call it "new moon" because it is the beginning of a new cycle.  A dog or a wolf barking at the moon is usually an image of death, fear, sadness.  But these dogs are not sad, they are not "crying" (howling), they are "whistling  a new tune", singing something new, so it is a happy thing and it means change. They  want the next cycle of the moon to come (hoping it would come soon) because they  want to die... and start again, changed, like the moon, always the same, always  changing, growing, whining and dying... only to be born again.
 
 Yeah, I know, I’m going a bit over the top (too expressive or dramatic), but  that’s poetry!
The meaning of this song is difficult to determine. It’s so poetical that it is  suggesting meaning, not expressing it. Basically, I think this song has two  possible meanings, depending on what you feel about it:
 
 1- LIFE IS SAD because all the good things come to an end.
 2- LIFE IS WONDERFUL, but we can't see how good it is because we don’t  understand the true nature of reality. 
 
 Personally, I think this is a song about growing, about going through the three  phases we all have to go through (or we should): First, as children, we think  life’s great and all good things will last forever (youth, love, etc). Then, as  grown-ups, we find out life is hard, and all good things finish... and then you  die (flame turns to dust, lovers to friends and all good things come to an end).  But if we grow wiser, we’ll find out that life is not what it seems, and we are  not what we seem; deep inside, life is wonderful, because everything moves in  cycles, like the moon, and every ending is just the beginning of something new.  Besides, the good things are like real flowers, they are beautiful because they  are brief. Plastic flowers last forever but they are not such a miracle.
 
 So in the song we have her in a personal crisis, still in phase two (Honestly,  what will become of me? I Don't like reality, It's way too clear to me ) But  beginning to understand phase three (But really life is dandy, we are what we  don't think, we miss everything daydreaming) If we stop daydreaming and accept  reality as it is, we’ll discover that all the good things are so good precisely  because they come to an end. 
 
Though, anyway, I think we could make an exception with love, no need for it to end. And with a good job, they should last forever. And maybe a few other things too :)
You can sing this song with a karaoke video here: