Reply To: Song lyrics that remind us of Once Upon a Time, season 4

Here’s another song. I was obsessed with this song when I discovered it a year or so ago, and watched the vid over and over again. 🙂

The video itself doesn’t have much to do with Once, but I will include it along with the lyrics, because I think it is just the most adorable thing! (And I love the vintage special effects. They are too much fun! 😀 )

“Thieves”
By SHE & HIM
Writer(s): Zooey Deschanel
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There’s thieves among us, painting the walls
With all kinds of lies, and lies I never told at all

What’s in my pocket, you never knew
You didn’t know me well so well as I knew you

And I know and you know too
A love like ours is terrible news

But that won’t stop me crying
No that won’t stop me crying over you

I’m not a prophet
Old love is in me
New love just seeps right in
And it makes me guilty

Why do you look like that?
It’s not all that bad
I’ll see you sometime
Sometimes lonely isn’t sad

And I know and you know too
A love like ours is terrible news

But that won’t stop me crying
No that won’t stop me crying over you
No that won’t stop me crying over you

We two are makers just made this mess
Two broken hearts don’t beat any less

There’s thieves among us, painting the walls
With all kinds of lies, and lies I never told at all

And I know and you know too
A love like ours is terrible news

But that won’t stop me crying
No that won’t stop me crying over you
No that won’t stop me crying over you
No that won’t stop me crying over you, you, you

This song reminds me of how Robin and Regina’s relationship has been complicated by Marion’s return.

Someone’s happy ending is being stolen, but who’s? And who are the thieves? Is it Robin and Regina? Or Robin and Marion? And is the song from the POV of the thieves?

The song captures beatifully how bittersweet all of this is. What Robin and Regina have is powerful. Is it right? Is it wrong? Is it doomed? At some point none of that matters, as it hurts just as much to lose.

And maybe the “thieves” are not people at all, but the very situations that bring so many obstacles into all these people’s lives.

And I think the “lies I never told”, could be this: Before Marion showed up, the secret hanging between Robin and Regina was that she had killed Marion. He didn’t know, and yet, she had not lied to him, because she did not realize it either!

This verse is clearly Robin, plain as day:

I’m not a prophet
Old love is in me
New love just seeps right in
And it makes me guilty

And when I hear this verse, I picture every time Regina told Robin to stay away from her, to leave her alone and be with Marion instead:

Why do you look like that?
It’s not all that bad
I’ll see you sometime
Sometimes lonely isn’t sad

And this verse just speaks:

We two are makers just made this mess
Two broken hearts don’t beat any less

So, isn’t Zooey just an awsome singer, and songwriter as well? 😀

SFG