Matisse, and Cat Stevens

[chanaleh]

This week's Say What? puzzle on the Puzzability site (which I learned about from saxikath) is a quote from Henri Matisse. Heh.

I just changed my .plan file (yes, I still do this) to one of the songs I was listening to last night. I always put on Cat Stevens when I'm indulging in a fit of melancholy.

From Teaser and the Firecat:

How can I tell you that I love you?
I love you, but I can't think of right words to say
I long to tell you that I'm always thinking of you,
I'm always thinking of you -- but my words just blow away,
just blow away
It always ends up to one thing, honey
and I can't think of right words to say

Wherever I am, girl, I'm always walking with you
I'm always walking with you, but I look and you're not there
Whoever I'm with, I'm always, always talking to you,
I'm always talking to you, and I'm sad that you can't hear,
sad that you can't hear
It always ends up to one thing, honey
when I look and you're not there

I need to know you,
need to feel my arms around you,
feel my arms around you
like sea around the shore
Each night and day I pray
and hope that I might find you,
and hope that I might find you
because hearts can do no more,
can do no more
It always ends up to one thing, honey
still I kneel upon the floor

How can I tell you
that I love you,
I love you
but I can't think of right words to say
I long to tell you
that I'm always thinking of you
I'm always thinking of you...
It always ends up to one thing, honey
and I can't think of right words to say.

As with most song lyrics, something crucial gets lost if you can't hear the mood of the actual music, but still.

Matthew proved to me once again yesterday that [despite his sometime difficulty at coming through on small everyday things] when I am really in need, when I am really scraping bottom, he is good at knowing what I need to hear and telling it to me. I was feeling lousy and heartsick by the end of Sunday afternoon (no, it wasn't that the GenComm meeting was so depressing!), so he came over later on to give me a pep talk. And what he did was tell me repeatedly and at length that my responsibility first and foremost is to do what makes me happy, and that I'm not, ultimately, obligated to anyone else for my choices. (Not to him, not to navrins, not to my mother, not to the Tremont Street Shul, not to my women's tefilah group that I decided I needed to stay home from last night...) I really appreciated that. I love him.

Comments

[navrins]

That Matthew's a pretty bright guy.

(He's got good taste in women, too. :-) )

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

<LOL!> You're pretty awesome yourself.