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KTera
Since: Oct, 2010
2nd Apr, 2018 06:44:29 PM
I think that's a Torch Song.
Seen It A Million Times. A song from the perspective of someone who is in love with another person who, for one reason or another is not around and forever separated by some kind of distance. Maybe they're dead, maybe they left the narrator, maybe they just lost contact. Different from Break-Up Song in that it could be Unrequited Love, Star-Crossed Lovers, or something like that, and not necessarily a conscious breakup. The emphasis is on the sadness of a lover.