Takes me straight back to my last year of college, where I lived out my meaning of this whole entire song! That’s when I walked into the job of my dream guy. Like the song said, there was something special about him. He was gorgeous…that’s all I really knew about him at the time. But I had to keep seeing him with my own eyes. He didn’t even have to talk to me. I talked to him 4 times, strictly because I was a customer at his office who needed help. Other than that, he never came up to me, and to this day I wonder if he ever noticed that I was secretly attracted to him. I was like Alicia in the song, telling myself things like “if he only took notice of me,” and “he’s missing out on a good thing.”
In the song, Alicia plays out their relationship in her head. Then she tells herself to call him, and tell him how she feels. After that, she talks to him and they agree to meet up. Sometimes when I listen to the song I imagine the phone call’s all in her head. She’s playing out what she’d do if she really got him on the phone. In the end, they never meet, and he never knows how she feels about him. Other times I think that she really did call him and confess her feelings. I felt like Alicia in the song: I had to tell him, even if he didn’t know who I was.
I saw him outside of work once and I thought it was a sign. I had to let it out. It didn’t play out like Alicia’s phone call though, lol. I did say, “I feel kind of silly doing this,” like she says in the song. He recognized me, and when I told him everything, he smiled. He said "Really?" and seemed too surprised at first to be flattered or humiliated. That’s why I wonder if he ever noticed that I was checking him out. He smiled at me, then congratulated my project, and grabbed me for the most innocent hug ever. All the time I pictured myself telling him I never expected him to say or do anything, but after I told him and he didn’t do or say anything, it made me sad. The feeling for him was probably nothing, but he made my year, and he had no idea. I moved out of town the next day, and I haven’t seen him since. And yes: He never knew my name.
Alicia takes me back to that time. In the six minutes of the song I can play out all those months I was hung up on him. You gotta feel this. You have to.
Takes me straight back to my last year of college, where I lived out my meaning of this whole entire song! That’s when I walked into the job of my dream guy. Like the song said, there was something special about him. He was gorgeous…that’s all I really knew about him at the time. But I had to keep seeing him with my own eyes. He didn’t even have to talk to me. I talked to him 4 times, strictly because I was a customer at his office who needed help. Other than that, he never came up to me, and to this day I wonder if he ever noticed that I was secretly attracted to him. I was like Alicia in the song, telling myself things like “if he only took notice of me,” and “he’s missing out on a good thing.”
In the song, Alicia plays out their relationship in her head. Then she tells herself to call him, and tell him how she feels. After that, she talks to him and they agree to meet up. Sometimes when I listen to the song I imagine the phone call’s all in her head. She’s playing out what she’d do if she really got him on the phone. In the end, they never meet, and he never knows how she feels about him. Other times I think that she really did call him and confess her feelings. I felt like Alicia in the song: I had to tell him, even if he didn’t know who I was.
I saw him outside of work once and I thought it was a sign. I had to let it out. It didn’t play out like Alicia’s phone call though, lol. I did say, “I feel kind of silly doing this,” like she says in the song. He recognized me, and when I told him everything, he smiled. He said "Really?" and seemed too surprised at first to be flattered or humiliated. That’s why I wonder if he ever noticed that I was checking him out. He smiled at me, then congratulated my project, and grabbed me for the most innocent hug ever. All the time I pictured myself telling him I never expected him to say or do anything, but after I told him and he didn’t do or say anything, it made me sad. The feeling for him was probably nothing, but he made my year, and he had no idea. I moved out of town the next day, and I haven’t seen him since. And yes: He never knew my name.
Alicia takes me back to that time. In the six minutes of the song I can play out all those months I was hung up on him. You gotta feel this. You have to.