New song, "Love is Worth Fighting For" - meaning of lyrics, etc.

[gillyking]

I love this! and especially how she and Casey mesh together so fluidly and all knowingly connected. I wish that she and Casey could/would just create themselves as a duo, and start trying to play enough small venues to try to continue getting noticed together as a phenominal duo! Branching out from Los Angeles to start just getting more noticed around the country. Those two, together are to me magical! Eventually the big hit will come.

I don't know anything about the music business, but I would really wish that she could perform on "The Voice", as her voice is just so powerfully sweet and bold all at the same time! The skeptic in me would wonder though if they wouldn't want a non winner from a competitor to make it to the top of their show. There have been a handful of artists from that show that I've really appreciated, but Haley tops my list by far!

Regardless, it's just so sad that this beautiful and talented tremendous STAR ARTIST just can't seem to get that one break to put her career on the highway to the moon! She's so deserving imho! PS... I'm an old @68yrs old fan too, so us old fogeys are also out here pulling for Haley! lol

[Miguel]

Haley posted this to FB today.

Haley Reinhart shared a link.
6 hours ago
Here is "Love Is Worth Fighting For."

Written by Clare Reynolds & myself.

Clare Reynolds
Loved writing this you my darling friend. You know I have more faith in you than I can sometimes contain... let's write another!!! Xxxx
54 minutes ago ·

[Tusk]

"Love is Worth Fighting For"
*Haley Reinhart & Clare Reynolds*

"Hold Tight", Momma used to say,
It's alright, No need to be afraid.
Confusion is the damnedest thing,
One day you're flying, the next you've lost your wings.

But I'm getting tired of all this fronting,
It feels like I'm running on empty for nothing.
Now I'm telling you, I can't take no more,
'cause I feel the weight of the world on me.
Is this the truth? Is it not in vain?
Broken promises, They can't be saved, to this day,
I believe there's no shame, 'Cause love is worth fighting for

When it takes you, it's the grandest thing,
It'll make you, it can break you just the same,

But I'm getting tired of all this fronting,
It feels like I'm running on empty for nothing
Now I'm telling you, I can't take no more
'cause I feel the weight of the world on me
Is this the truth? That it's not in vain?
Broken promises, They can't be saved, to this day,
I believe there's no shame, 'Cause love is worth,
love is worth love is worth fighting for

Well, tell me now, Won't you tell me now,
Oh tell me now, tell me now,
Won't you tell me now, Is it worth, worth fighting for?

I'm telling you, I can't take no more
'cause I feel the weight of the world on me
Is this the truth? That it's not in vain?
Broken promises, They can't be saved, to this day, I believe there's no shame,

'Cause love is worth, love is worth,
love is worth fighting for
That's what I said,
I said love is worth, love is worth
love is worth fighting for
I said love is worth, love is worth
love is worth fighting for
I said love is worth, love is worth
love is worth fighting for...

[Tom22]

And of course not every word an artist brings to life is necessarily taken from their own life! Maybe she's laughing at so much seriousness right now!? (Are all the love and breakup songs by Haley "reports"?) Always a possibility.

Though this song does seem pretty direct and raw and honestly heartfelt, as if it really is real ... I like this song so much for that.

Otherwise I am totally with you, Tusk:

Luckily, I'm a fan of Haley. [...] I'm just excited to see where her instincts lead her ...

I liked this thought XAtlantic.. ..

when you write about something you can both express how you felt at the time and yet also have some perspective about how what you felt might have been slightly off the mark (or exagerated or too much despair etc) if you are writing slightly later reflecting on how you felt.

And even if it was written at the time one felt that way, it can be sung later in a way that is , as you put it "laughing at so much seriousness"... (maybe slightly different word than laughing .but I don't have a better word for it myself... reflecting back with a few grains of salt..maybe

philosophically... being able to look ahead to possible better times when all feels like a wreck around you is really a powerful tool....but of course if a person could really feel that it wouldn't feel so bad.. I think that's what I see in "undone' ... the love that faded away fleeting off into space to be rediscovered as the stars fade away and drift off into space (presumably stars fade away as the next day comes and surely the stars will appear again.

Whether or not we agree on meanings of songs they are poetically intriguing. Haley is really good at it .. or at least speaks to me in many or her songs (some more than other.. we are different people haha)

I've always feel that .. poetry (and I feel lyrics are poetry) often expresses two or three thoughts at the same time not just one or another. Saying two things at the same time lets people examine and compare both

.. after all a sunset can both be a beautiful thing and also an end of the light... just a concrete example of what I'm trying to say that is perhaps a bit touch- feely sounding to many people.