I'll approach you and wait, it's been several weeks coming
and I'd give it up, give it away
to be able to tell you how I really feel
and how I'd give it up to hear you say
cause were counting the seconds and minutes weve spent here
cant seem to just throw you away
when it's all said and done dear and were packing our things
will the memories keep me thinking?

so where do we go when its all over
and will you be coming back, coming to me?

cause I've been waiting here to declare a new meaning
to feel the way I do and it just happens to be
one of the things that I'd like pretend
cause I know you cant stand
when I wake up, hold on to your hand and I'm sorry I'm not strong enough
to let go of the things that I love way too much

come to me and I'll tell you the story
of how I became the way that I became
set aside all the things that youve heard in the past
have reasons but I'm still the same.
light my way back home cause I'm feeling so alone

then theres you, I'm tired of waiting
when are you coming back, coming to me?

cause I've been waiting here to declare a new meaning
to feel the way I do and it just happens to be
one of the things that I'd like pretend
cause I know you cant stand
when I wake up, hold on to your hand and I'm sorry I'm not strong enough
to let go of the things that I love way too much

light my way back home cause I'm feeling so alone
light my way back home cause I'm feeling so alone

cause I've been waiting here to declare a new meaning
to feel the way I do and it just happens to be
one of the things that I'd like pretend
cause I know you cant stand
when I wake up, hold on to your hand and I'm sorry I'm not strong enough
to let go of the things that I love way too much


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    anyway, "time traveler's wife" is about love story between a woman and a man who's a time traveler. The saddest part of the story is that man can't control his "gift" of travelling time and place. You got what I mean? He could just gone in a blink of eye, even when they're holding hands together.

    This inability, and the disappear of the man in a long long time, made the woman sad. Very very sad.

    A beautiful love story, indeed.

    "I'll approach you and wait, it's been several weeks coming and I'd give it up, give it away to be able to tell you how I really feel and how I'd give it up to hear you say cause were counting the seconds and minutes weve spent here"

    Every minute counts for them.

    "come to me and I'll tell you the story of how I became the way that I became set aside all the things that youve heard in the past have reasons but I'm still the same."

    In this story, sometimes the man that later approach the woman, is a man from the past, that didn't know anything about the life of the woman he was leaving all along.

    faridasusantyon October 10, 2007   Link

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