The Canonization Love Quotes

The speaker just wants to be left alone to love—is that so wrong? He starts off as a pretty sympathetic character in the fist stanza, but then he pushes his luck by bragging so much about what an awesome relationship he has. Do you forgive him?

Here the speaker reminds us that love never hurt anybody—at least not his love. We're left wondering at this point why he has to so vigorously defend being in love. Then he goes on explains it to us by being a little too cocky about how great his relationship is.

Here the speaker is placing all the blame for offending folks (like the person to whom this poem's addressed) squarely on love. Could his non-stop bragging have something to do wit it, or is he just so in love that he can't help but sing love's praises?

"You just wouldn't understand, man." This is the upshot of what the speaker's saying here. Sure, we understand that every relationship is unique. By saying this, though, the speaker seems to be making the claim that his relationship with his lover is uniquely special and beyond everyone else's understanding. Maybe that's why these two end up looking down at the rest of us from heaven.

Well, that escalated quickly. Fantasizing about death, though, allows the speaker to move into a realm where he posits himself and his lover as saints. It's traditionally hard to be canonized, after all, if you're still kicking around above ground.

To "beg […] a pattern" means to ask for guidance. Here, the mortals of Earth are looking up (praying, really) to the lover-saints for help in how to love properly. We've already seen that this perfect couple now looks down at the rest of us with rage, presumably since we're not loving in the best way possible. Should we feel bad about that? Or resentful? Or is this maybe an invitation for us to consider how we all might improve our romantic relationships?