And I Have A Question....

What is Love?


NeverShoutNever's song What is Love? grabbed me the first time I heard it. It is my "Story of my Life" song. It's about Christofer Drew's parent's divorce and how now he doesn't really know what love is anymore. It's a hard thing to talk or write about, love is. It's a tricky concept. Everybody thinks that they feel it, but then get shocked when their relationship fails. I know for a fact that I would give ANYTHING to protect my friends and family. Maybe that's love? I think that when you know you would die for that person, and would do anything to be with them, that is love.  I would cross any ocean, slay any beast, climb any mountain to protect those who mean the world to me.

Now there are a lot of people out in the world that believe that love is based on sex *cough RAPPERS cough* or somebody's appearance *cough cough* This simply cannot be true. I love my cousins. I would never sleep with them. Ick. I love a bunch of kids at school, but I'd never sleep with them. So that pretty much destroys the rapper's argument. We all have the ability to love while keeping in in our pants.

Love is a trickster. It plays with our emotions and then crushes them.  A lot of musicians write about the polar extremes, Can't Stand It by NeverShoutNever for happiness and You Told Me You Loved Me by Cinematic Sunrise for the not so happy times. I find that it's a lot easier to be happy if you just throw love to the wind and live life how you want. Love will eventually come back, as it always does, because everything works out in the end. God has a funny way of doing things, trust me.

To those hopeless romantics, calm it down already.
To the Twilight fans, love isn't always going to be Edward Cullen. Vampires are NOTHING like him. Watch 30 Days of Night or Spark's the Rescue's We Love Like Vampires. Vampires burn in sunlight.  But I digress.

Keep your heads up my friends, I've got your back, ALWAYS.




What is Love?- NeverShoutNever

In a snitch like this
You gotta think and I don't think you
Think about the way he thinks
And I know you live life
For yourself
But it all comes down to
The way you help

And I know your life is such a hell
You wake up early and you work until
You have your drinks at 5 o'clock
The hours blend and your thoughts
All haunt your hopes, your dreams
Your everything
Well, mama, I hope
I dream that you won't leave

And I have a question:
What is love?
What is love?
Oh, oh oh oh-oh-oh
Is it giving up?
'Cause that's not how you
Raised me, yeah.

In a snitch like this you gotta think
And I don't think you think
About the way she thinks
And I know you work hard everyday
But it all comes down
To the way you're paid

And I know you're oh so sorry dad
I truly believe that you're a better man
Than to share one kiss and then give away
From the love you come home everyday
Your hopes, your dreams, your everything
Well daddy, I hope, I dream
That she won't leave

And I have a question:
What is love?
What is love?
Oh, oh oh oh-oh-oh
Is it giving up?
'Cause that's not how you
Raised me

And what is love?
What is love?
Oh, oh oh oh-oh-oh
See, I don't know anymore
I used to look
Up to
That love

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