Day 8 - 20 Lines in 20 Days

OK it is like 4AM your time. I just got to the hotel a while ago and now I officially cannot sleep. So what better way to spend my time than to update the 20 Year Anniversary Poem?

Today's song is more about you than us. I don't know that I have a ton of reason to have this song remind me so much of you but it does. I think the reason I think of you is that I know you better than anyone else knows you. And that is kind of what the song is about. a guy who knows the girl almost better than she knows herself.

The song is by the Replacements. It is called "Achin to Be" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap7mrHW0sL8). Paul Westerberg (a genius in his own right) sings about a girl so misunderstood, so not who people perceive her to be that she is just "achin to be" understood.

Now I don't really think of you that way. You aren't misunderstood, there isn't some hidden side of you that others never see. None of that would be true. But the part I like about the song is that the singer is the only one who really knows the girl. Whether there are hidden parts of you that no one sees, I see them. I know you so well. I know you so well because you have let me get to know everything about you for the past 20 years. I started liking this song for you a long time ago. Because a long time ago I really got to know you. When I did I really knew I loved you.

The coolest verse of the song goes like this:

"Well she's kind of like an artist
Who uses paints no more
You never show me what you're doing
Never show a soul

Well, I saw one of your pictures
There was nothin' that I couldn't see
If no one's on your canvas
Well, I'm achin' to be

She closes her mouth to speak and
Closes her eyes to see
Thought about an' only loved
She's achin' to be
Just like me"

You see my love I know the other side of you. The side that doesn't come out when you are uncomfortable around people you don't know. The side of you that can make anyone laugh. The side of you I love so much. So the line I picked was "Well, I saw one of your pictures, there was nothin' I couldn't see". Because I see everything about you. I see it through our 20 years together and I see it through my eyes filled with love for you.

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