Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise is that terrible but irresistible moment when an affair first begins—you know you shouldn´t do it, and you don´t want to hurt your husband, your partner—that´s the last thing you would ever want—but this love, this desire, this high just seeped into you gradually until it completely infiltrates, and now it blazes full force, the die is cast, and events are rushing forward—even though you know they´re all going to come crashing down. And the singer knows all this, because she´s done it all before, but now here she is, living out that whole catastrophic cycle again.