Song Details
- Album Release Date: 2012
- Genre: singer-songwriter
Song Meaning of “It’s Too Late – Demo” by Carole King
It’s Too Late is a song of wistful regret over the realization that a relationship may be ending. Carole King paints an image of a kind of foreboding for the future with her melancholic lyrics. She sings about the difficulty in trying to hold onto a relationship despite all the mistakes the couple has made. The lyrics tell us of a lover recognizing the cycle they have been caught in, longing to fix the situation, but not knowing how. The theme of powerlessness is tangible in the line “We can’t return; we can only look behind/ From where we came, and go round and round and round”.
We can feel King’s regret over it being too late to mend the relationship; her heartfelt plea of “Let’s just stay together/ We can take the night and make it right” gives us such a tangible desire to restore the connection. But as the song fades out, her words leave us with a sense of sadness as we all know that often it really is too late.