Song Details
- Album Release Date: 2012
- Genre: jazz
Song Meaning of “Café Reggio” by Zachary Breaux
“Café Reggio” paints a vivid picture of a relationship that was once full of love and happiness, but has now taken on a bitter edge of despair. Zachary Breaux paints a beautiful, melancholy story of a once passionate relationship that has now become strained and distant.
The song speaks of memories of a couple meeting and falling madly in love at Café Reggio, a place where dreams were once made. As the couple’s love continues to grow so does the intensity of their relationship, but as the passion starts to die, the couple are unable to find comfort in the familiar place that first brought them together.
As the couple struggles to keep their relationship alive, it seems to be slipping away, which only heightens the sadness of the present. Despite their attempts to recapture the past, the couple’s presence at the café no longer brings the wonderment and joy it once did.
With a few well-crafted lines, Zachary Breaux shows us how a once burning love can so easily become broken and distant, and how, try as we might, we can’t turn the clock back on something that was once so strong and beautiful.