This song has a special meaning to me because it makes me think of the person I love. We had been friends as teenagers and into our early 20's but had gotten separated by life's circumstances. Those same circumstances had always kept us from dating though we'd had a little crush on each other since our teenage days.
When we reconnected I was in a relationship. It wasn't bad but it felt incomplete. Meeting him again was like waking up, it was like getting beat over the head with the reason I felt incomplete where I was. How can you walk away from someone who is your best friend even after nearly seven years without seeing each other. It was a difficult situation but I gained much out of it.
When we were in the confusing first stages of our reconnection we would talk for hours about everything and nothing. In one of those conversations I asked him if there was a song that made him think of me. Oddly enough he had just come across Ray Lamontagne and this song in particular.
This song will always be our song, and I tease him that he should write Mr. LaMontagne a thank you note someday. So yea, when I hear it I hear our story, a girl and a boy who have always been close friends but never together. He sees her in a relationship she doesn't know how to leave because she can't leave a good person even if he's not right for her. She's confused and he doesn't know if he should say this or not, who is he to play God after all, but he encourages her to listen to her doubt and then offers himself and makes his case for why she should be with him.
It's definitely a romantic song about taking a leap of faith to be with the one whose always been there, even if it was just in the back of your mind.
This song has a special meaning to me because it makes me think of the person I love. We had been friends as teenagers and into our early 20's but had gotten separated by life's circumstances. Those same circumstances had always kept us from dating though we'd had a little crush on each other since our teenage days.
When we reconnected I was in a relationship. It wasn't bad but it felt incomplete. Meeting him again was like waking up, it was like getting beat over the head with the reason I felt incomplete where I was. How can you walk away from someone who is your best friend even after nearly seven years without seeing each other. It was a difficult situation but I gained much out of it.
When we were in the confusing first stages of our reconnection we would talk for hours about everything and nothing. In one of those conversations I asked him if there was a song that made him think of me. Oddly enough he had just come across Ray Lamontagne and this song in particular.
This song will always be our song, and I tease him that he should write Mr. LaMontagne a thank you note someday. So yea, when I hear it I hear our story, a girl and a boy who have always been close friends but never together. He sees her in a relationship she doesn't know how to leave because she can't leave a good person even if he's not right for her. She's confused and he doesn't know if he should say this or not, who is he to play God after all, but he encourages her to listen to her doubt and then offers himself and makes his case for why she should be with him.
It's definitely a romantic song about taking a leap of faith to be with the one whose always been there, even if it was just in the back of your mind.