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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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Can anybody paraphrase and explain 'God speed your love to me' from song?

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0"*** speed" generally applies to haste, and with best wishes. There's an ugency to "*** Speed", so, someone on a dangerous journey might be wished "*** speed" - ie, get there quickly and safely but it is important that you do get there. 0-

— Tidus

  • 0"*** speed" generally applies to haste, and with best wishes.
  • There's an ugency to "*** Speed", so, someone on a dangerous journey might be wished "*** speed" - ie, get there quickly and safely but it is important that you do get there.
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0"*** speed" generally applies to haste, and with best wishes. There's an ugency to "*** Speed", so, someone on a dangerous journey might be wished "*** speed" - ie, get there quickly and safely but it is important that you do get there. 02br
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00In the context of unchained melody, it means that the man singing it, is pining for the girl and wants her to love him as much
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10That's Righteous brothers'10 Unchained Melody.12br
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0 Perhaps:02br
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0It's not a question as much as a command or request. Instead of "*** speed your love…" he could have said: 02br
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0 I am the one who posted this question and after coming back a couple of times and doing some googling I am not certain what it means particularly when two replies give different meanings. And to make things worse for me here's what wikipedia says about 'Godspeed' which seems unrelated to any of the replies.02br
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0 You're wrong, Tidus has already mentioned the meaning described at Wikipedia. 02br
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00 I'm still sticking to my guns. The best would be to talk to the group writing the song. A lot of the stuff is quite "arbitrary" in lyrics and poetry. 0-
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0Doesn't the phrase "vaya con Dios" share many of the connotations ***-Speed has? 0-
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01cite10M. Caliban12cite10Doesn't the phrase "vaya con Dios" share many of the connotations ***-Speed has? 12br
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10Well, perhaps, but not the "speed," it seems: 02br
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10I need a translation because I am translating song lyrics into Spanish.12br
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11b01font00¡02font01font00Que Dios me expida tu amor!02font02b0
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0The "speed" in "*** speed" is a present subjunctive. It is therefore equivalent to "May *** speed...", as Marius suggests. The phrase as a whole means "May *** cause your love to reach me very soon".02br
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00This use of the present subjunctive is quite rare in modern English. Other examples are "*** 01u00save02u00 the Queen!" and "Long 01u0
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