Song Series

Still Into You

It was 10 p.m when many pieces of big news arrived, all at once, taking me aback.

And when they all bore a strong resemblance to each other, you did not know how to put them into words. The only way out was to put it in a song.

Funny how that lies the third coincidence.

Can't count the years on one hand that we've been together

I need the other one to hold you, make you feel, make you feel better

Human beings are normally born with two hands intact, if they do not suffer from any kind of malformation. In relationships, hands, let us say, are used for a great variety of purposes. Hands are for caressing. Holding hands warm out bodies. Holding hands make we feel better. Yet hands can also be for marking purposes. Seeing our hands, counting our fingers, we are taken back to the times, the years we have been fooling around, wasting our invaluable time being together. And we do so rather than doing better stuffs. How foolish that is, probably.

In fact the rationale behind all our staying together is clear. We do so with the strong belief that we can amend ourselves. There are times when you feel you are living in another world when your fingers interlock and start to love, aren't they? It is when you see that you are being yourself, and yourself at any other place is your sheer alter-ego. We know it will be no easy ride, no walk in the park to love each other, but we press ahead with this untargeted journey, for want of our better entities.

'Cause after all this time, I'm still into you

I should be over all the butterflies

I'm into you, I'm into you

And baby even on our worst nights

I'm into you, I'm into you

Once again, human intransigence takes over. People say when you make decisions, it is better to listen to your brain that your heart. People, on the other hand, do the vice versa, the worse, even when they have known all the feasible repercussions that can lead them into. They emerge themselves in a decade-long journey of love so that they can be together, while with that time, they might be able to change the world. They are unruly above all, not be able, or intending, to accept any slights on their relationships.

Because they know, that behind their arguments, deep down inside themselves, they still have a feeling for them. That is what make them hold on tight.

Another thing that is worth the mention, is the butterflies. The metaphor cannot be easier to be spotted: all the trivial things, all the unreasonable thoughts, all the belief and disbelief in the world around.

My friend, he let the butterflies get to him. For a couple of weeks, he had been scrutinizing himself whether to confess his affection. He kept on imagining things, most of which cannot be more mediocre. As a result, he is the only impedimenta to take a heavy toll on their staying together. Yes, he did know she also had a soft spot for him. But no, he could not ascertain the thought. Nor could he rule out any possiblility of flat denial and friend-zoning. When he finally plucked up the courage to do so, he wished he had been oblivious to his mind, and follow his heart.

Recount the nights that I first met your mother

And on the drive back to my house I told you that, told you that

I love you

You felt the weight of the world fall off your shoulder

And to your favorite song, we sang along to the start of forever

There is a fine line between best friends and lovers. It can be easy, yet hard, to surpass the border. And even some choose to be just friends, so they can avoid unnecessary couple's stuffs.

A perfect example for this is another friend of mine. He is 90% sure enamored with the girl, but they are only friends for now. They have sang along their song to the start of forever, but they cannot accomplish the first and most important step, telling each other three words I love you. However, seeing themselves being playful kids must be more pleasant for them to see. They just cannot move forward a step to be official lovers.

Some things just, some things just makes sense

And one of those is you and I

Some things just, some things just make sense

And even after all this time.

I'm into you

Baby not a day goes by that I'm not into you.

The epiphany comes late, yet early enough to satiate their need for each other. As a couple we need to stand by and count on each other for support. You know the people who say seeing you makes my day - they are not exaggerating anything, they just mean it. It is no melodramatic things, it is an absolutely ordinary thing to do when you are a couple together.

The journey can be easily shortened. If we have had enough proof of our love, we do not need other to wonder how we got this far, because when you do, you can prove it yourself, don't really need to wonder at all. What makes me angry with people, is the fact that the prefer the butterflies to the I love you.

Having told the two stories, let me conclude with another one. There was a boy who could not stand up from the collapse of his past relationships. He recluded himself from all possible connections,only admiring people from afar. He engrossed himself in books, in assignments, in many things, and he did manage to forget that he needed someone close. He chose another path: to have friends. He became close friends with the person who could not be over the butterflies, the person who could only sang to the start of forever and could not to the rest, and many more. When his path has an interesting branch, he decided to discover it, and surprising knew the girl who could hold people, make them feel better. Sadly the point is that he was alone, and she was not. He decided that there had been many branches, and a lot of brances would open in his path. So he turned his head around, and went ahead.

And that is when I am angry with myself.