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Wednesday, January 05, 2005

More Than Words . . .

Category: Writing

I have a love of words.     Not simply as a writer -- which would seem inevitable -- and expected -- but as someone who recognizes and appreciates the ebb and flow of how some words just evoke strong emotions or pleasant memories.     Likewise, there are other words that can illicit negative feelings as well.     That isn't to say that I sit around and read the dictionary on a regular basis but, just in my everyday reading, on television, in the news, on the internet . . . our senses are flooded with millions of words . . . many of which can create a specific reaction to just reading or hearing them.     We are literally bombarded by words and phrases that imprint themselves on our subconscious and, perhaps, even change our perceptions and views from that point forward.

I am especially fond of words that possess an ethereal quality.     Not necessarily in the "spiritual" connotation that some may associate with the word but, more simply, in the intangible sense of mystery that surrounds it.     In fact, not only am I drawn to words that possess that quality but, also, to that word itself.     It has an air of complexity and excitement that surround it like a cloud of gossamer frailty -- smoke and fog that could simply disappear right before your eyes.

There are also times that, no matter how hard you may try, words seem to escape you, and you cannot express what you most want to say.     Yet, it is amazing how someone else's words -- especially when found in a song -- can express your feelings better than you could ever attempt in your own feeble way.     Does it seem as if I'm talking in code, in some clandestine fashion?     Perhaps, that is true, if only fueled by a self-preservation instinct.     Even a wordsmith can find themselves lost for words when words are simply not enough to express emotions that are better left in a more surreptitious shadow.

I remember the first time I heard this song, the first time I played it when I bought the CD, the first time I taped it for someone -- and, ten years later, when I burned it to a CD for that very same person whom I had not seen in those ten years.     Life . . . mine, at least . . . has a way of bringing people in and out -- similar to the ebb and flow of the universe that surrounds us.     And, I like that ethereal quality to my life.

More Than Words

Extreme from Pornograffiti

Saying I love you
Is not the words I want to hear from you
It's not that I want you
Not to say, but if you only knew
How easy it would be to show me how you feel
More than words is all you have to do to make it real
Then you wouldn't have to say that you love me
Cos I'd already know

What would you do if my heart was torn in two
More than words to show you feel
That your love for me is real
What would you say if I took those words away
Then you couldn't make things new
Just by saying I love you

More than words

Now I've tried to talk to you and make you understand
All you have to do is close your eyes
And just reach out your hands and touch me
Hold me close don't ever let me go
More than words is all I ever needed you to show
Then you wouldn't have to say that you love me
Cos I'd already know

What would you do if my heart was torn in two
More than words to show you feel
That your love for me is real
What would you say if I took those words away
Then you couldn't make things new
Just by saying I love you

More than words

Listening to: Earth: Voices of a Planet - Paul Winter

(c) 2005 A Southern Belle's Life

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