Lost loves

[zipplewrath]

I was listening to "Olde Lang Syne" the other day and thinking of the "might have beens". I've got two. Not "two that got away" but "two I'm sorry didn't work out". I'm with someone with whom I'm happy but there are two, one of whom I still communicate, that are in the class of "wish it had worked out". It is a strange place because of course it "didn't " work out. Even more so, now that I'm happy, it is clear how it never would have been "right". But just as when I was involved, there is this huge draw to try to make it be so, even though it never would have been.

I suspect I am drawn to music about this... well... because of this.

[flotsam]

1. Here's one you probably heard

[tymorial]

6. I always listen to that song on christmas.

My favorite Croce song

[flotsam]

2. And one you probably haven't

[mr_lebowski]

3. I know every last friggin word/note to this song, probably listened to it 1000 times, no joke

And it can still bring tears to my eyes ... in fact, it just did.

So ... yeah ... I know what you're saying ...

I've been looking so long at these pictures of you
That I almost believe that they're real
I've been living so long with my pictures of you
That I almost believe that the pictures
Are all I can feel

Remembering you standing quiet in the rain
As I ran to your heart to be near
And we kissed as the sky fell in
Holding you close
How I always held close in your fear

Remembering you running soft through the night
You were bigger and brighter and wider than snow
We screamed at the make-believe
Screamed at the sky
And you finally found all your courage
To let it all go

Remembering you fallen into my arms
Crying for the death of your heart
You were stone white
So delicate
Lost in the gloom
You were always so lost in the dark

Remembering you how you used to be
Slow-drowned
You were angels
So much more than everything
Hold for the last time then slip away quietly
Open my eyes ...
But I never see anything

If only I'd thought of the right words
I could have held on to your heart
If only I'd thought of the right words
I wouldn't be breaking apart
All my pictures of you

Looking so long at these pictures of you
But never held on to your heart
Looking so long for the words to be true
But always just breaking apart ...
My pictures of you

There was nothing in the world
That I ever wanted more
Than to feel you deep in my heart
There was nothing in the world
That I ever wanted more
Than to never feel the breaking apart
... my pictures of you

[dweller]

4. it's soon the season...

https://m.

✌🏼️

[Duppers]

5. Reminds me of a previous thread

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181034928


And my Harvest Moon story...