What is the meaning of "TOO BEAUTIFUL TO LAST"?

TOO BEAUTIFUL TO LAST


(Richard Rodney Bennett / Paul Francis Webster)





Engelbert Humperdinck





Also recorded by: Russ Peterson; Kerri Sherwood.








The days of autumn splendor


Those moments, warm and tender


Was it too beautiful to last


The love we share together


The dreams we dare together


Was it too beautiful to last





Walking hand in hand


The dawn discloses


We were dreaming of a land


Where love preposes


But castles made of sand


Like winter roses are fated to die


My darlin', like you and I


My darlin'





Where are those sweet Septembers


The joy my heart remembers


Lost in the shadows of the past


The rainbow watched above you


The sacred words "I love you"


Why did that dream go by so fast


Was it too beautiful


Was it too beautiful to last

What is the meaning of "TOO BEAUTIFUL TO LAST"?
The sentence mirrors other truisms, such as "only the good die young", or "why must the good ones go first", etc. It is part of human understanding that the more beautiful something is, the less chance it has of lasting...it is the threat of losing the beauty that adds to its beauty...the knowledge that all things pass, and those most beautiful past most quickly...so when someone says, "too beautiful to last" it means, as others have said, that it was "too good to be true" or simply something not meant to be for long...it was the flicker in God's eye, a sparkle of the devine that flared for a moment before passing...it was something not meant for mortal experience...too beautiful to last.
Reply:Sometimes, when you say it's too good to be true, it's the same as saying it was too beautiful to last.
Reply:I'm not sure if i follow your question, if you're looking for some context on the song I can't help you.





If you want to know about the saying "too beautiful to last", it means that, as all beauty is ephemeral, if something is very beautiful it will last even less than than if it was less beautiful (doesn't sound so nice that way, huh?), like the flowers: the more beautiful they are the shorter their lives are too (Like winter roses are fated to die).





The song is about a lost love, a good one, apparently they had plans for the future that they never achieved (dreams they dared together and castles made of sand), the lyric self remembers with nostalgia, for it was a fine love, hence doomed to die, so he (or she) can only wonder: was it too nice?





Personally, every time I think of the universe, I can see that we don not know it's beginning, we won't know it's end; there's nothing ephemeral about it, but it sure is beautiful.





And, just as a side note, don't fall for beauty too easily, 'case as Charles Baudelaire said: "the good does not hold the monopoly of beauty"
Reply:Similar meaning to the expression "too good to be true"