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"If" is a song by Bread. The lyrics are here. I'm not in the habit of sharing song lyrics with strangers when attempting to respond to a prompt that makes one's head swim with possibilities. In fact, I'm not in the habit of sharing song lyrics with anyone. This particular song, however, wouldn't leave me alone because it seems so annoyingly obvious.
The first time I heard this song, I thought it was the most romantic thing I had ever heard. Of course, I was seven years old and wasn't quite sure what romance should be. I did know, however, that "If" was pretty and the man singing it certainly seemed to love the woman he was singing it to. I even decided that it would be played at my wedding - and I was certainly going to be married. Every little girl knows they're going to be married.
Nowadays, on the odd occasion when I hear it on the radio or in an elevator, it seems so ridiculously quaint to me. There is nothing as complicated or maddening in this world as love, yet this song - in fact, any song ever written on the subject - attempts to reduce it to a few flowery phrases and a sentiment that's almost laughable in these times. We live in a world so brimming with hatred, danger and ill will, it's a wonder that love can even survive admist the chaos and destruction. I try to maintain my faith in humankind and in a loving God who has a reason for everything He does, but there are days when I simply can't. I try to remember that love is an ideal and isn't something everyone is meant to experience, but I resent those who have it for being stupid enough to believe in it.
If the world should stop revolving spinning slowly down to die,
I'd spend the end with you.
And when the world was through,
Then one by one the stars would all go out,
Then you and I would simply fly away
It's funny. I know this is how things are going to end for us. Not just for Mulder and myself, but for all of us.
What's the point in fighting the inevitable?
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The first time I heard this song, I thought it was the most romantic thing I had ever heard. Of course, I was seven years old and wasn't quite sure what romance should be. I did know, however, that "If" was pretty and the man singing it certainly seemed to love the woman he was singing it to. I even decided that it would be played at my wedding - and I was certainly going to be married. Every little girl knows they're going to be married.
Nowadays, on the odd occasion when I hear it on the radio or in an elevator, it seems so ridiculously quaint to me. There is nothing as complicated or maddening in this world as love, yet this song - in fact, any song ever written on the subject - attempts to reduce it to a few flowery phrases and a sentiment that's almost laughable in these times. We live in a world so brimming with hatred, danger and ill will, it's a wonder that love can even survive admist the chaos and destruction. I try to maintain my faith in humankind and in a loving God who has a reason for everything He does, but there are days when I simply can't. I try to remember that love is an ideal and isn't something everyone is meant to experience, but I resent those who have it for being stupid enough to believe in it.
If the world should stop revolving spinning slowly down to die,
I'd spend the end with you.
And when the world was through,
Then one by one the stars would all go out,
Then you and I would simply fly away
It's funny. I know this is how things are going to end for us. Not just for Mulder and myself, but for all of us.
What's the point in fighting the inevitable?
336 words (excluding lyrics)
