Sorry that the update is coming this morning late. The trip in and subsequent trip out made this difficult. Aruba was fun, so sorry you felt so bad at the end. You got an awesome tan though - the tan looks even better in your new nightgowns.
We are down to 4 songs - and they are each carefully chosen. However, there were a few that didn't make the cut I felt I should tell you about. Here are a few:
"Closedown" by The Cure (happens to be between Pictures of You and Lovesong on an album best played in the rain. It was THE song at THAT moment)
"This Year's Love" by David Gray (beautiful song - one line reminds me of you but the overall song is about hurt)
"Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straits ("You and me babe how bout it?")
Today's song is one I know you don't even like. In fact I think you hate the band pretty significantly. They are hardly know for their romance. The band is Frankie Goes to Hollywood. No the song isn't Relax or anything lame like that. The song is a powerful ballad called "The Power of Love". It is the only song I think he actually "sings" and he does it well.
The message of the song is about how he protects the person he loves. How he uses the love they have together to protect each other from harm. How their love has insulated the couple from any type of external force that could separate them. It is exactly how I feel about us. I think the Beatles sang "all you need is love" and as silly as the thought may be - I believe it wholeheartedly. It is really all we have every needed.
In the "Power of Love" he sings of protecting the one he loves:
"I'll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door
When the chips are down I'll be around
With my undying, death-defying
Love for you
Envy will hurt itself
Let yourself be beautiful
Sparkling love, flowers
And pearls and pretty girls
Love is like an energy
Rushin' rushin' inside of me"
He sings very strong and with enormous emotion. But it is a simple message. Our love has protected us from so many things. We have had ups and downs over the 20 years we have been married. Financial issues, big moves, kids with troubles at school or with friends, family squabbles, arguments about small things and arguments about big things have come and gone. Yet we come through because at the end of every day we still love each other. We still want to hold the others hand. We want nothing more than for our love to wrap us up and "protect" us from anyone or anything else. So long as we have each other. This is exactly how marriages get to 20 years or 30 or 40 or 70 years. It is the thing no one else realizes that we have mastered. We have each other. we have a love for each other no one else can with understand or grasp even at its simplest level.
The line from the song I picked is on that theme:
"This time we go sublime
Lovers entwine-divine divine
Love is danger, love is pleasure
Love is pure-the only treasure
I'm so in love with you
Purge the soul
Make love your goal"
It is too long for the poem so I only took "Love is danger, love is pleasure - Love is pure-the only treasure" because it fits the poem. However, the message I want you to take from this is that I count on our love to pull me up when I am down, rescue me when I am trapped or sooth me when I need calm. Because of that I will use it to protect you from any harm or fears you may have.
Because we have "The Power of Love".
You're the world to me. I love you more than anything in the world.
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