Reflections: I Love You
At first glance, the title of my newest single, ‘I Love You’, would indicate that it’s the perfect song for Valentine’s Day. When you look a little closer you actually find that the topic is far from being all hearts and flowers. Though the ultimate sentiment doesn’t change, the circumstances are more tragic than romantic.
Basically, we have a person who has been through a lot of hurt and disappointment in their life. In order to protect themselves from being hurt again in the future, they have put up walls, shutting everyone out and refusing to be vulnerable. Now they have found someone worthy of their love, but destroyed their chance at true happiness by pushing them away out of fear. In the end they inflicted the very pain on themselves that they had worked so hard to prevent.
I can’t tell you how many people I have heard say they have put up walls because they are afraid of being hurt again. Anyone who has suffered heartbreak (or several) can relate to feeling as though sometimes it would be better to lock people out than to suffer at the hands of someone we trusted. But with love it’s always a chance we take. Sometimes it doesn’t end happily ever after…but sometimes it does.
In this case, the person in the song wakes up to the realization that they have made a terrible mistake and decides to drop their defenses in a last effort to salvage the relationship. Though it appears to be hopeless, they will at the very least find healing in letting go of the past. But when it comes to love there is always hope.
How does it end? It’s different for everyone. But if you haven’t said ‘I love you’ to someone important in your life for fear of being disappointed again, maybe this is the perfect time of year to let your guard down and tell them before it’s too late. After all, the greatest passions are born out of courage, and that is very romantic indeed!
I Love You
Lyrics by Jakki JeleneYou say that you’re leaving
And that there’s nothing I can say or do
To change your mindYou claim that my feelings
Were never strong enough to see you through
But you were blindWhen all my life, my heart has longed to sing this song
An endless fight to find the words to say to you
And by and by I never could quite figure how
But I will tell you now. I love youPlease hear me out
I know I’m coming at the midnight hour
You say that it’s too lateLooking back I realize
That there was so much more that I could say
But I was afraidWhen all my life, my heart has longed to sing this song
An endless fight to find the words to say to you
And by and by I never could quite figure how
But I will tell you now. I love youI built a fortress around my heart
In hopes of shutting out the pain
And now I watch as all my efforts crumble to the ground
As you’re slipping away…When all my life, my heart has longed to sing this song
An endless fight to find the words to say to you
And by and by I never could quite figure how
But I will tell you now. I love you
{Image from caatabatic}.
