Liz Damon's Orient Express – 1900 Yesterday lyrics

Liz Damon's Orient Express – 1900 Yesterday lyrics

Where's the love that we knew
Is it gone or have you thrown it away
While the joy that we shared
I feel sure is not here anymore

Like smoke from a cigarette
Dreams that you soon forget
It's fading away
And it's 1900 yesterday

I thought you felt the same
Tell me who, who's to blame
The broken heart you've given me
All the hurt and misery
Where did I go wrong

Like smoke from a cigarette
Dreams that you soon forget
And night has no day
And it's 1900 yesterday

Where's the love that we knew
Is it gone or have you thrown it away
While the joy that we shared
I feel sure is not here anymore

Like smoke from a cigarette
Dreams that you soon forget
And night has no day
And it's 1900 yesterday

And it's 1900 yesterday
And it's 1900 yesterday

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journmsu 2016-04-09 16:49:33

Recently this song popped into my mind. I'm uncertain as to why, since I have not heard this song in at least 35 years. My Mother owned the 45 (record) which is how I know the song. After reading the lyrics, I am still uncertain as to how this song relates to me on a personal level. However, I will make the attempt to state what I feel is the meaning of this song. First of all, the words "1900 yesterday" does not refer to the actual year. Or any particular date for that matter My feeling is that 1900 refers to the number of nights this person has had to suffer, since their lover turned dispassionate Secondly, this person believes that he/she is to blame somehow and wants to know in what way they have displeased their lover, so that the wrongs can be righted, and their lover can be happy again. Lastly, I believe this person, deep down, knows the relationship has come to its conclusion but they do not want to admit it and let their lover go. After writing my personal meaning to this song, I have come to the understanding that I also must let go of something that I have been clinging to for far too long. In my case it is not a person, but rather a "what". Some soul searching is required and I plan on doing just that.

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Mick Wells 2020-01-26 02:11:16

This is a beautiful song I've long admired, yet when the lyrics are studied, it's very difficult to connect their meaning to the title, which is also repeated as the last line of the refrain. I find no apparent tie to the year 1900. So it occurred to me that "1900" could refer to or express military time -- an hour of the day translating to 7 pm. Since couples often dine together in that time frame, it may signify that the hard look at the couple's waning feelings for each other, and the realization that things had gone south beyond repair, may have taken place over a dinner conversation around 7 pm the previous evening. Although the love had faded over time like dissipating smoke from a cigarette, the realization was both sudden and stark -- an epiphany that etched the day and time into the lyricist's mind to the point its significance was immortalized in the song's refrain.

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Unregistered 2020-12-31 05:28:13

My 2-cents: a couple met during their time stationed somewhere in SE Asia, perhaps Viet Nam? 1900 would best refer to the military time "7PM", either a best moment or the moment that sped up all the best moments, until it was time to board the flight that would take the guy, usually, home?. It's a break-up for sure, tho this one feels like one of them is going home to the states likely, and just broke the news to the other, male to female, companions that found each other to make the best of their time there. Likely, too, the guy has a fiance back home which additionally wold add to the pain. "Where's the love that we knew
Is it gone or have you thrown it away"
I thought our love was true and so secure. The intent was perhaps not sincere, after all we were making the best of an inconvenient situation for both of us, no matter what I said, we were living a fantasy here. We knew it would come to its own conclusion. The lyrics never mention the sorrow or regret one likely has caused the other, no any semblance of comforting, so it seems the song was from a female lover's view, in the classic "what about me, all those things you said?" it was definitely of its time. It would be foolish to believe that this scenario never happened, we are cruel even without a planned intention.

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