Studying and Love Songs

I have 36 hours of relatively open time (including sleeping, if that's allowed, and catching up with D after her trip to see M&D) to finish reading 200 pages and write a 5 or 6 page paper on what I've read, before my regular schedule of work, classes and normal life crashes in on me again Tuesday morning.

So.. get busy, man! Stop listening to all these love songs. :)

Aww.. c'mon. Don't be such a meanie. I like love songs!

Sure, some of them are introspectively juvenile and full of high-school drama or college-style emo angst, but.. so what? So are some of the people who like them. ;) Others are pretty profound, like some other people, and contain more adult sentiment.

And anyway, I never care who wrote them, and about what, and for whom. I only like them because of a feeling they evoke, a connection they make to my own experience, a vivid memory they trigger, a hope or a dream they make a bit more real.

Like these:



Lovesong
(by The Cure)

Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am home again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am whole again

Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am young again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am fun again

However far away I will always love you
However long I stay I will always love you
Whatever words I say I will always love you
I will always love you

Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am free again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am clean again

However far away I will always love you
However long I stay I will always love you
Whatever words I say I will always love you
I will always love you



Loving a Person
(by Sara Groves)

Loving a person just the way they are, it's no small thing
It takes some time to see things through
Sometimes things change, sometimes we're waiting
We need grace either way

Hold on to me
I'll hold on to you
Let's find out the beauty of seeing things through

There's a lot of pain in reaching out and trying
It's a vulnerable place to be
Love and pride can't occupy the same spaces baby
Only one makes you free

Hold on to me
I'll hold on to you
Let's find out the beauty of seeing things through

If we go looking for offense
We're going to find it
If we go looking for real love
We're going to find it



I have to think that studying, punctuated with love songs, is better than studying with none at all.