I Forgot That Love Existed

I really like this song. It strangled up my heart. It is a rejection of the physical, hedonistic world in search of spiritual meaning. For everyone who's ever tried.

You can forget that love exists. There is time in your future to forget all about what you know now. Van is writing this after 20 years of making music, on the album Poetic Champions Compose. Countless women and that includes plenty of women. Countless albums and countless cities. Divorce, other countries. Music industry. Plenty of time to forget about a feeling you suddenly realize that it is still there, because something comes up and brings it back to life.

For me at my advancing age, I have to go back to a place that time and everyone forgot. Everyone forgot I existed. It is like forgetting that love existed. The past tense of it all, is uplifting. ForGOT. Forgot that love existed. Great uplifting song.

[Edit: added 2nd paragraph]

I forgot that love existed troubled in my mind. Heartache after heartache, worried all the time. I forgot that love existed, Then I saw the light, Everyone around me make everything alright. [a stranger's smile] Oh, oh Socrates and Plato they, Praised it to the skies. [they praise the love of wisdom and wise-love to the skies] Anyone who's ever loved [the loveof wisdom] Everyone who's ever tried. If my heart [the heart of my soul] could do my thinking, And my head begin to feel [the universal ] love , I would look upon the world anew And know what's truly real.