Song Details
- Album Release Date: 2012
- Genre: piano
Song Meaning of “Bleeding Love” by Pianoholic
“Bleeding Love” is an emotional song by Pianoholic about the pain of an unrequited love and the wrestle of an internal battle for hope and healing. The song starts out with lyrical symbolism of “bleeding” or “breaking” love in the chorus “I’m bleeding love, I’m breaking my heart”. This imagery is used to demonstrate the aching wound of unrequited love and how it leaves the person in the song hopelessly struggling to come to terms with the pain.
The verse lyrics express how, in spite of the hurt, the narrator is trying to “tie up loose ends” of the relationship in order to gain some sort of closure. They talk of the “storms that they go through” and of their “hiding their head” in order to keep the pain away. The song’s vulnerability allows its listener to understand what it feels like when someone’s love isn’t reciprocated or isn’t received in the way it was intended.
The title, “Bleeding Love” is irony. It presents love, not as something beautiful and perfect, but instead a wound that bleeds and causes pain. Its melancholic melody and sorrowful lyrics remind us that love often doesn’t come with the happily ever after.