The Get Away

You're the reason that I'm alive. You're what I can't live without. You're quick to forgive when I make a mistake, and I still can't believe you are next to me after all I've done.

These words speak volumes as Plumb sings, "I don't deserve your love. Even when I walk away, take off running, you come right after me. It's what you do, and I don't deserve you."

If we are not careful, we will slip through life without ever experiencing real love. Real love is rooted in self-denial, self-sacrifice. Peel away the layers of so much of what is passed off for love today, and all you have left is self-gratification and manipulation.

Instead of asking, "What will I get out of the relationship?," real love asks "What do you need from me to be yourself?"

The word "commitment" is usually defined as being dedicated to a cause. When love is real, each person in the relationship is surrendered to the other's best interest.

Don't let life pass without ever being able to sing, "You give me more than I could dream, and you bring me to my knees."

Check out "I Don't Deserve Your Love" with Plumb and Paul Van Dyk.

Write Your Wrongs

I wish I had more time to explore some of the new musicians that are surfacing on Soundcloud. I could get lost bouncing around all the incredible sounds posted on that website. For now please allow me to share a sad and strangely soothing song from Sian Sanderson and the Charm Offensive.

The song is called Write Your Wrongs. I think it’s superb!

Concrete Angel

The love interest in Gareth Emery’s song, Concrete Angel, is determined to hide herself behind a tall self-made brick wall. It seems it’s hard for her to be herself with the person she’s seeing. I get the impression she’s either been hurt badly by a former lover or for some reason has come to believe she has little to offer the world. She has fine-tuned the art of deflection and allows no one to see the essence of who she really is.

The singer, Christina Novelli, says: If you keep building these walls, brick by brick towers so tall, soon I won’t see you at all, until the concrete angel falls.

It’s sad when you feel you have to hide the real you. Oh, I know there are plenty of people who would misuse what they learn about you, but isn’t being vulnerable worth the risk of connecting with someone who really cares?

Be yourself.

Tear down the brick tower. There is someone out there who wants to know who you really are!