If ever you’re in my arms again
This time I’ll love you much better…..
I can’t stop singing love songs these days. I sing them out loud, sing them in a whisper, or hum them. Haaah! Well, it is the month of love; nobody can resist its spell.
Love is in the airwaves – radio stations can’t stop playing love songs, too. Listening to these songs, I realize I can relate to some of them. They sing of my experience in love, and I think they tell of yours, too.
Their lyrics recount our different love stories: as husband and wife, as girlfriends and boyfriends, or as friends secretly hoping for more.
Some are ecstatic over their first love:
This will be an everlasting love
This will be the one I’ve waited for
This will be the first time anyone has loved me…
This will be you and me, yes-sir-ee, eternally
Hugging and squeezing and kissing and pleasing
Together, forever, through rain or whatever
Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, you and me.
Or contented with their last:
From this moment life has begun
From this moment you are the one
Right beside you is where I belong
From this moment on
From this moment I have been blessed
I live only for your happiness
And for your love I’d give my last breath
From this moment on.
Some loved against their parents’ wishes:
I don’t care who you are
Where you’re from
What you did
As long as you love me.
Others fell for someone adored by the world:
Why do birds suddenly appear
Every time you are near?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you.
Some found the love long waiting for them:
I was living for a dream, loving for a moment
Taking on the world, that was just my style
Now I look into your eyes
I can see forever, the search is over
You were with me all the while.
But other hearts are still blind:
You just call out my name,
And you know wherever I am
I’ll come running, oh yeah baby
To see you again.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall,
All you have to do is call
And I’ll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You’ve got a friend.
Some fear they are headed for a break-up:
Cause I’d rather you be mean than love and lie
I’d rather hear the truth and have to say goodbye
I’d rather take a blow at least then I would know
But baby don’t you break my heart slow.
Others only need reassurance:
Don’t go changing, to try and please me
You never let me down before
Don’t imagine you’re too familiar
And I don’t see you anymore
I wouldn’t leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times
I’ll take you just the way you are.
Still others are in perfect bliss:
Saving forever for you, baby
You are the only one
I’ll ever give forever to
Love for a lifetime won’t do, baby
Wanna always stay together
So I’m saving forever for you.
Some of us are getting over lost loves:
After you go, I can catch upon my reading
After you go, I’ll have a lot more time for sleeping
And when you’re gone,
It looks like things are going to be a lot easier
Life will be a breeze you know, I really should be glad
But I’m bluer than blue…
And some of us simply can’t let go:
I’m just a fool who’s willing
To sit around and wait for you
But baby can’t you see,
There’s nothin’ else for me to do
I’m hopelessly devoted to you.
While others are falling in love all over again:
I heard from a friend today and she said you were in town
Suddenly the memories came back to me in my mind
How can I be strong I’ve asked myself,
Time and time I’ve said…
Cause I’m falling in love with you again.
Anything anyone has felt about love has been expressed in a song. The happy and sad moments, and the easy and trying times are preserved in its lines.
Love songs are gospels of the heart. In your happy days or lonely hours, there’s a song that captures your excitement or advises you to move on.
As for me, I’ll keep on singing:
If ever you’re in my arms again
This time I’ll love you much better
If ever you’re in my arms again
This time I’ll hold you forever
This time will never end.