Katy Perry, formally known as Kathryn Elizabeth Hudson, wrote this song in 2011 and it was part of her Teenage Dream album which skyrocketed billboards around the nation.The song is a mid-tempo pop ballad about a lost love that resonates with underlying layers of exquisite content, integrated with inconsolable feelings and unvoiced desire. Moreover, It features references to the rock band Radiohead as well as the relationship of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash to express the strength of the affair. For instance—In the first verse—she talks about insane things that the two lovers end up doing and how oblivious they were to the surrounding while making plans about their future, etc. But as the chorus comes into being, the listeners perspective shifts from explicating this warm and romantic love story, to this dark and hazy amour which soon reveals the sad travesty of this relationship; Moreover, she talks about: reincarnation, her desire to be his girl in the afterlife and how they'd rebel against the world if need be—but most importantly—regretting the fact that she let him go. As this musical composition progresses, the lyrics start becoming more dispiriting and gloomy as she implicitly discloses how her egoistic personality drew the two lovers apart and that she must now face these somber consequences by pretending to fall in love with someone else which is akin to compromising. Furthermore, the presence of an interlude makes the song more dramatic and the resolution of all the events boil down to a period of bitter recrimination as she has no one to blame but herself and the only thing she can cling onto is her steadfast faith.
