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What does "It was true" mean? and do you use "it was true" generally?

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Rebecca

"It was true" here seems to be in reference to the love she felt for the boy she is singing about. It is a common poetic technique to refer to love as "true" to imply that it was both "real love" and that it was pure/innocent love. The phrase has been used in this way to for with the rhyming scheme of the song and is not reflective of spoken English. Ex: Our love was true. Ex: I think this love is true.

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