I am watching a concert video of Counting Crows on YouTube. I've decided that I am currently very into live music right now.
Adam just stopped in the middle of "Anna Begins" and asked the audience if he "ever connected with any of them personally through his music" (they cheered as expected). All I could think was "Oh yeah, I have a whole blog for my wife because of your connection my friend".
I bet he would smile. Likely, because "he can write songs".
You are the world to me, I love you more than anything in the world.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Part of the New Way - The Moment when "We Shine"
I heard this song and thought it was odd that David Gray - they happily married and in love guy - wrote this for his wife. It seems so sad, so awful, until he fits the words "shine" into the song.
When he sings "our love has faded" he isn't saying goodbye. He is acknowledging that relationships need constant work and that the mundane nature of life can dull even the best relationships. He doesn't abandon his love, though. Instead he says "let's go where we can shine." He knows you can't just leave your soulmate, because "your soul is the one that you can't compromise." And that true love can survive the rough times, because "for all that we struggled, for all we pretend, it don't come down to nothing except love in the end."
"Take my hand", he says, not farewell. That is true love.
My love "we will always find a place where we can shine". I promise.
David Gray "Shine"
I can see it in your eyes
What I know in my heart is true
That our love it has faded
Like the summer run through
So we'll walk down the shoreline
One last time together
Feel the wind blow our wanderin' hearts
Like a feather
But who knows what's waiting
In the wings of time
Dry your eyes
We gotta go where we can shine
Don't be hiding in sorrow
Or clinging to the past
With your beauty so precious
And the season so fast
No matter how cold the horizon appear
Or how far the first night
When I held you near
You gotta rise from these ashes
Like a bird of flame
Step out of the shadow
We've gotta go where we can shine
For all that we struggle
For all we pretend
It don't come down to nothing
Except love in the end
And ours is a road
That is strewn with goodbyes
But as it unfolds
As it all unwinds
Remember your soul is the one thing
You can't compromise
Take my hand
We're gonna go where we can shine
We're gonna go where we can shine
We're gonna go where we can shine
(And look, and look)
Through the windows of midnight
Moonfoam and silver
You are the world to me. I love you more than anything in the world.
When he sings "our love has faded" he isn't saying goodbye. He is acknowledging that relationships need constant work and that the mundane nature of life can dull even the best relationships. He doesn't abandon his love, though. Instead he says "let's go where we can shine." He knows you can't just leave your soulmate, because "your soul is the one that you can't compromise." And that true love can survive the rough times, because "for all that we struggled, for all we pretend, it don't come down to nothing except love in the end."
"Take my hand", he says, not farewell. That is true love.
My love "we will always find a place where we can shine". I promise.
David Gray "Shine"
I can see it in your eyes
What I know in my heart is true
That our love it has faded
Like the summer run through
So we'll walk down the shoreline
One last time together
Feel the wind blow our wanderin' hearts
Like a feather
But who knows what's waiting
In the wings of time
Dry your eyes
We gotta go where we can shine
Don't be hiding in sorrow
Or clinging to the past
With your beauty so precious
And the season so fast
No matter how cold the horizon appear
Or how far the first night
When I held you near
You gotta rise from these ashes
Like a bird of flame
Step out of the shadow
We've gotta go where we can shine
For all that we struggle
For all we pretend
It don't come down to nothing
Except love in the end
And ours is a road
That is strewn with goodbyes
But as it unfolds
As it all unwinds
Remember your soul is the one thing
You can't compromise
Take my hand
We're gonna go where we can shine
We're gonna go where we can shine
We're gonna go where we can shine
(And look, and look)
Through the windows of midnight
Moonfoam and silver
You are the world to me. I love you more than anything in the world.
A New Way for the Blog
I logged in today and noticed that your last update was on February 14th. Not really a good thing from my point of view. Primarily because there are a hundred things I want to say to you and have you be able to remember them.
But writing a full blog takes real time my love - and while you are worth the time - it also takes real privacy and secrecy to write. Those are things I rarely have in my life.
So I decided that small entries are better than no entries. So from here on in, you will just have to check the blog from time to time to see what I have added. It may be a few paragraphs, it may be a simple memory i want to re-share with you, or a song lyric or just something I think you will enjoy.
It will retain that personal and intimate nature and it will remain for your eyes only.
So here is entry number one.
Today on my walk to work, I saw a young couple holding hands. They looked really happy. They must have been, because they maintained that hand holding through some heavy city walk traffic. It made me wonder how they would be doing 10 years from now, 15 years from now, or even 30 years from now.
Would they still be holding hands? Fighting through city traffic firmly gripped in one another's hand? Would holding that hand still be important to them? Would it still be worth that fighting effort?
We still hold hands. Often. We held hands in the grocery store yesterday. It was only for a short time, but as inconvenient a place as the grocery store can be, we managed to do it for about 10 seconds anyway. And its been more than 30 years for us.
So while that couple might be strangers to me, I sure hope they couple find 10 seconds at the grocery store 30 years from now as well.
You're the world to me. I love you more than anything in the world.
But writing a full blog takes real time my love - and while you are worth the time - it also takes real privacy and secrecy to write. Those are things I rarely have in my life.
So I decided that small entries are better than no entries. So from here on in, you will just have to check the blog from time to time to see what I have added. It may be a few paragraphs, it may be a simple memory i want to re-share with you, or a song lyric or just something I think you will enjoy.
It will retain that personal and intimate nature and it will remain for your eyes only.
So here is entry number one.
Today on my walk to work, I saw a young couple holding hands. They looked really happy. They must have been, because they maintained that hand holding through some heavy city walk traffic. It made me wonder how they would be doing 10 years from now, 15 years from now, or even 30 years from now.
Would they still be holding hands? Fighting through city traffic firmly gripped in one another's hand? Would holding that hand still be important to them? Would it still be worth that fighting effort?
We still hold hands. Often. We held hands in the grocery store yesterday. It was only for a short time, but as inconvenient a place as the grocery store can be, we managed to do it for about 10 seconds anyway. And its been more than 30 years for us.
So while that couple might be strangers to me, I sure hope they couple find 10 seconds at the grocery store 30 years from now as well.
You're the world to me. I love you more than anything in the world.
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