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I posted this on Facebook as well, but since this blog is more lasting I kind of hope you ready it here first.

Life has a way of surprising you sometimes.  I thought I knew every Counting Crows song.  I thought Adam Duritz had a line for EVERY emotion I felt for you.  I was wrong.  Tonight I found a new song and a new lyric that just made me remember just how amazing my love for you is and how deeply you touch me.

So here goes.  It is from the song “August and everything after”.  It never made it to an album, but is apparently written on the cover of the album of the same name.

Just a few lines for you.

They're wakin' up Maria 'cause everybody else has got some place to go
She makes a little motion with her head,
Rolls over,
And she says she's gonna sleep for a couple minutes more
I've said "I'm sorry" to Maria for the cold hearted thing that i have done
I've said "I'm sorry", by now, at least once to just about everyone
She says, "I've forgotten what I'm supposed to do today,"
And it slips my mind what I'm supposed to say?
We're getting older and older, and older
And always a little further out of the way
You look into her eyes and it's more than your heart will allow
In August and Everything After, you get a little less than you expected, somehow...

I stumbled into Washington Square just as the sun began to rise
I lay down on the lawn of the cathedral
Right down with the shadow of St. Mary's in the sky
And I'm just one of these late model children waiting for the king
Yeah, but there ain't no sign of Elvis in San Fransisco
It's just me, and I'm playing this rock and roll thing
And She wants to be just like me
And I want every damn thing I can see.
One day you're Daddy's little angel,
The next day you're everything he wanted you to be
They dress you up in white satin
And they give you your very own pair of wings
In August and Everything After, I'm after everything.

There you go.  In my head all I can hear right now is Adam singing “You look into her eyes and it’s more than your heart will allow”.

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