Day 3 - 20 Lines in 20 Days

I just re-read the past two days entries. I bet the countdown of the number of days is pretty annoying - so I am only going to do that every few days until we get below 5 or 6 days left.

Today's song offered so many choices of lines - bu tone really stood out to me. The artist is David Gray. If you remember a few weeks ago I posted about how he really wrote every song for his wife. That prior to her he had a "block" of sorts, but after meeting her the words flowed so freely. She was his muse. I think that is so cool and I am so jealous. But honestly my love, this blog gets my words flowing pretty well so often I think you may be my muse too.


I have more than 1 David Gray song in the list (for obvious reason as he pretty much writes only love songs), but this one is certainly my favorite. The song is "Please forgive me" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EYribhLoPA). It is such a love song.

David Gray is basically singing a song apologizing for being so in love that he cannot communicate how it feels. That he is so overcome with his love in so many ways he cannot even put it into words.

"Please forgive me
If I act a little strange
For I know not what I do.
Feels like lightning running through my veins
Everytime I look at you
Everytime I look at you"

Love is such a powerful emotion. So hard to express. I think that is how you know when you are truly in love. When it becomes so difficult to really even explain to the person you love how much you love them. But telling them is also so necessary. Maybe that's the angst like feeling that we all feel when we are really in love. The feeling that causes those goofy looks and those sheepish smiles. With you my love I have had countless goofy looks and sheepish smiles. Because there are so many times I just want to express to you how much I love you.

I picked the best line from the song for my poem. The line I think is most romantic.

"Want to tell you just how good it feels
When you look at me that way"

It has two meanings. One is that he wants his love to know how good it feels when she looks at him lovingly. That is obvious. The other is that he just wants to tell her just how good it feels period. And that when she looks at him "that way" he knows she feels it too.

So there you have it - line 3. I hope you "feel that way" too. After 20 years I know WE do.

You're the world to me. I love you more than anything in the world.