Amanda Fagan sings about a love that arrived too proud to survive itself. Her new dramatic single, ‘Forever Yearn,’ takes its heart from Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, borrowing the novel’s ache for two people who could have been happy together.
The couple in the song burn with feeling, however let their pride stand between them. Years pass. Only then do the lyrical protagonists see what they’ve lost, and by that point, the door is already closed. What remains is longing that never fades and hunger with nowhere left to go.
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Amanda Fagan treats this story with lightness, allowing the sadness to come through naturally. “Forever Yearn” is a minor tragedy concerning timing and stubbornness, in that two lives can easily drift apart when neither of the individuals is willing to yield first.
The song takes a classic story of ruined passion and turns it into a personal and up-to-date account, one that deals with the cost of delaying too long in saying what is important.
*The song was submitted via Groover. The editorial decision was made independently.
