The Whole of the Moon

 https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jfmunk3D8_E&feature=share

I watch this video often.  I love the song.  I love the moment.  The dance, the looks on their faces, etc.

I've loved this song for a long time.  For years, I never paid attention to what it meant.  Never cared.

Many years back I heard it again and very much decided was a grand Tracy song.  The lyrics are truly about a guy with some reverence for his mate.  He loves her personality.  He loves how she thinks.  He trusts what she says.  He believes he needs her perspective to complete him.  It is very romantic.

"I pictured a rainbow, you held it in your hands".  He knows the best he can do is see a rainbow.  She on the other hand can touch a rainbow.  He needs that.

"I had flashes.  But you saw the plan".  He has some idea of what is going to happen.  She knows.  He needs that.

"I saw the crescent.  You saw the whole of the moon".  He grasps some things.  She understands how everything fits.  He needs her.

The song has several other lines that have similar themes.

Today I watched it and realized the song has some lines that work in reverse.  Things he does for her.  Things she needs from him.

"I spoke about wings.  You just flew"  She has dreams.  He makes her dreams come true.  She needs him.

"I wondered, I Guessed and and I tried.  You just sighed".  She worries about things.  He makes certain she doesn't need to.  She needs him.

So now the chorus feels different.

"I saw the crescent.  You saw the whole of the moon".  We both bring things to our relationship the other needs from them.  Things we count on.  Things that we know the other will always provide for us.

We are nearing 35 years and I am still finding new reasons to love you.  Almost 35 years and I am still learning how to make this work as well as it does.

I'll never stop trying to learn new things about us.  I love you.

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