What's love got to do, got to do with it?
I've had the blues,
the reds and the pinks,
One things for sure,
Love stinks
Love hurts,
Love scars,
Love wounds and mares any heart,
Not tough nor strong enough to take a lot of pain,
Take a lot of pain,
Love is like a cloud, holds a lot of rain,
Love hurts
OK, so you can certainly get hurt by love and these lyrics show it, but what kind of love are they talking about? More importantly, since there are a greater number of love-gone-right than love-gone-wrong songs, what kind of love are they talking about?
There ain't no mountain high enough
ain't no valley low enough
ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you, babe
You'll always be a part of me
I'm part of you indefinitely
Boy, don't you know you can't escape me
Ooh darling, 'cause you'll always be my baby
It's all... It's all... It's all...
You're my sunshine after the rain
You're the cure against my fear and my pain
'Cause I'm losing my mind
When you're not around
It's all... It's all...
It's all because of you
And let's not forget "I'll love you until the mountains tumble into the seas," "My love is like a hurricane," "I'll love you longer than the sun shines; My love's deeper than the deep blue seas," ad infinitum.
But what is this "love"? And what does love have to do with it?
Regarding the love-gone-right lyrics--the majority of songs out there (unless you listen to country music)--what is this "love" being spoken to? Is it love? or is it early relationship by-the-dashboard-light love? If you look at the lyrics, there's very rarely if ever any mention of kids, trials and tribulations, in-sickness-and-health-until-death-do-we-part stuff.
What they should be singing about is a a grovey kinda love, love that lasts! Here's my contribution to love songs, but mine's about long-lasting love--thirty, forty, fifty years, and more--eternity?
(sing this with your best coutrified twaaaaang)
It's been twenty years and forty pounds
Along the way I've stumbled and I've fallen
Once I tired and even tried to feed you to the gators
Now the mortgage's late
Even lost my job and all my friends
But who needs 'em anyways when you are by my side?
Love is not a sprint but a mushy-kinda-marathon glide
OK, there ya go. But there's more to the picture, ain't there?
According to one wise person, it's not about getting our needs met at all, it's about looking constantly, continuously to the needs of our spouse, the kids, our "others". Of course, you may give in such a manor without the spouse reciprocating, and there's nothing you can do about that. But the wise man I know said that if we both gave in such a fashion as mentioned about, thinking about the needs of the other(s) continuously above and beyond our own needs, that the divorce rate would drop form 50% down to around almost nothin'. Well, wouldn't that be nice?
What's love got to do with it? Well, quite a lot, Mr.and Mrs. America, quite a lot.
Love on Wayne, Love on Garth.
Peace out to you and yours.
