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Lousy video and the lyrics are not actually related to my current frame of mind but it’s still a great song and, it is actually Chicago in July, 1971. I would have been newly pregnant with baby Michael!
Story for me behind this song is that is was the one my son’s father and I claimed as “ours”, to the degree that we had “only the beginning” engraved onto our wedding bands. The words were so true for us at the time. BIG (but young) love there!
Ironic, given how quickly the marriage ended, leaving me alone to raise my 3 year old.
But you know, that was also a beginning in so many ways. I really started becoming my best self after Michael’s father left and with lots of work, I actually became grateful for how that beginning came about.
As sweet Jennifer Day, from The Iconophile said recently “a mess is full of potential”.
So no excuses…get back out there in the world and DO something. Either that, or stay in and finish your damn BOOK! (By the way, that was to ME, not you…unless you needed a swift kick in the patootie also!)
When I’m with you
It doesn’t matter where we are
Or what we’re doing
I’m with you, that’s all that matters
Time passes much too quickly
When we’re together laughing
I wish I could sing it to you, whoa oh
I wish I could sing it to you
Oh oh oh oh oh oh woah oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh woah oh oh oh
Mostly I’m silent, hmm
Silent
When I kiss you
I feel a thousand different feelings
A cover of chills
All over my body
And when I feel them
I quickly try to decide which one
I should try to put into words, woah oh
Try to put into words
Oh oh oh oh oh oh woah oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh woah oh oh oh
Only the beginning
Only just the start
Oh oh oh oh oh oh woah oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh woah oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh woah oh oh oh
love the story behind your song. wow. love the photos too
Glad you liked them. I find them pretty hysterical, in one way and so poignant in another…
I offer you the experience of my years: relax. What you can do and really need and want to do, you will do. Don’t make yourself crazy. Don’t be a bad boss! Don’t micro-manage your own life. It won’t help and it will make you unhappy. I wish you lived next door. We would have fun, just talking, just drinking whatever, tea, coffee, hot chocolate … and being alive.
Great supportive response but I’m not sure to what you are referring? My pressure to finish the book I’ve been writing since 2001?? I will assume that’s what you mean and attempt application. Thanks Marilyn and Tea would be so lovely! You are such a wonderful discovery!