Taking you Home
Now playing: Don Henley – Taking You Home
via FoxyTunes
I had a good life
Before you came
I had my friends and my freedom
I had my name
Still there was sorrow and emptiness
‘Til you made me glad
Oh, in this love I found strength I never knew I had
And this love
Is like nothing I have ever known
Take my hand, love
I’m taking you home
Taking you home
There were days, lonely days
When the world, wouldn’t throw me a crumb, no no
But I kept on believing
That this day would come
And this love
Is like nothing I have ever known, no no baby
Take my hand love
I’m taking you home
I’m taking you, home
Where we can be with the ones who really care
Home, where we can grow together
Keep you in, my heart forever
Oh and this love
Is like nothing I have ever known, oh no no baby
Take my hand love
I’m taking you home
Oh this love
Is like nothing I have ever known, no no baby
Take my hand.
I’m taking you home.
I found a new feature that records what I’m listening to on itunes and will track the song without me having to write it all down. I’m sure I’ll find new things to keep adding before I really settle on a “standard” entry. Today’s song was chosen because it reminded me of 3 years ago, when I first started seeing Seamus. Now, there’s a great deal of songs that I could use, but tonight this one stood out to me.
When I think back on the night I met him, I can’t help but think I’m one of the lucky ones. One of those people who stumbles upon another person and realizes although you’ve just met, you’ll probably never feel the same way about anyone again. I had met him in the parking lot of my college dorm at the time, not quite knowing what to expect. Sure, we had been emailing since Christmas and I can’t even remember how many of those surveys about yourself that he had filled out I read but it wasn’t making the nervousness go away. Although unlike your typical nervous feeling this was happier, like the start of something really good. Walking to his truck I tried to play it off in my head like it was no big deal, just meeting a friend for a concert, that was all. Well, I suppose that would have worked until I climbed into his truck where my eyes met his for the first time. I knew right then, this was it. This was what I had been looking for, what I had wanted, what every failed relationship had been leading up to. I’m sure some cynics out there would say it isn’t possible, or it was just because it was new. To them I hope someday they meet that person who proves them wrong. While I knew I was interested him, nothing prepared me for that and if you had asked me before if you could feel so strongly about something the moment it happens I doubt I would have said you could. The relationship I had wasted 6 years of my life on was nothing like what I wanted, to be honest it hadn’t been for quite some time. The guys I had dated in the periods of the time we weren’t together, well they weren’t what I wanted either. Not completely that is, sure there was always a few things, sometimes more then a few that I saw in a person I was seeing but there was always something missing. However, here, in this moment I had found that, the thing that was missing was looking right into my eyes and I couldn’t have stopped it if I wanted to. Through the good times and the bad that feeling never went away. I won’t deny there were days when I blocked it from my thoughts, or tried liked hell to forget but deep down I knew he was exactly who I wanted to be with. As I reflect on the past 3 years I can honestly say we’ve had more good times then bad, and while it’s not always easy I wouldn’t have it any other way. We have the type of love that seems rare these days, the type that most people I know swear doesn’t exist. He’s not only my boyfriend but my best friend, and tonight I’m reminded of a night three years ago where it all began.
