Time for another musical moment, and another entry from my spirit animal Richard Marx.
This is a bitter sweet one for me – it sums up perfectly how I feel about Maddie – but I see two completely different sides to the lyrics, and from that two completely different sides of me and my love for her.
I listen and hear myself singing these words to her, yet in real life I would be be utterly terrified to express those words.
Maddie obviously knows that I care deeply for her, and she cares deeply for me – but there is almost an unwritten law between us that we would never use the “love” word. She knows I am alive, just not how much my love is alive.
That’s the context in which I place those lyrics.
It’s everything I would say, but would probably never be able to say.