Discover the story of the song > My Love My Life – Abba

The protagonist is talking about a relationship that is coming to an end. They can see from their partner's face that they are no longer happy together. They know that they will have to go their separate ways, and there is nothing they can do to change that. They describe their love and life with their partner as an image that is fading away, and they can see it clearly in their partner's eyes. They wonder if their time together was just a dream or a lie and if their partner is struggling to find the right words to say. They acknowledge that they don't own their partner and tell them to go away, but they still consider them to be their love and their life. They know that they don't possess their partner, but they will always think of them as their one and only.