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Like A Love Song

The best ever written love song isn't perfect but it works!
'I,I love you like a love song baby,I,I love you like a love song,babe.....',young Selena Gomez singing,and vocalising what we would all take love as...a LOVE song.
The love song. Women can only dream about being loved the way Gerald Levert put it,'made to love you', or have 'this love' a la Donell Jones.
And I'm not talking about the exaggerated 'catching of grenades','crossing oceans',drinking of lovers' bath waters.But a love that leaves one gasping for air as they try to breathe in,a love that gives one warm fuzzy feelings inside.A love that also stands the test of time,and conquers all.
But is the impression we are given by love songs similar to real relationships?Would a man not want to be 'mad' like Ne-yo, or beg you to 'stay' like Tyrese? Some may agree,whilst others would be at the other end of the pole.
In the mean time men might find Beyonce's 'dangerously in-love' being intense,whilst a grateful Mariah Carey, 'thanks God she's found you', and Monica, believing in divine hosts,'angel of mine', more of clingy.
A love song is more or less a 'perfect' love,which might be taken as more of the non-existent 'happily-ever-after' fairy tale. In real relationships,the 'love song' has a lot of hurts, non-compromising, deceit, empty promises, and at most short-lived romances.
There are rarely those love notes,or those 'moments' that reminds one why they fell in-love with their partners.Most relationships are more tolerance based,comfort,obligation.So what should be the lyrical verses of every relationship.
To my partner; 'I'm only human, I'm bound to err,but I will do my best to fill your days with a divine love.I cannot promise that I wont break your heart,but I'm here to bring the pieces together,if ever I do. It wont be perfect, but we will make it work.'
That is a love like a love song,and almost as the love described in the biblical 1Corinthians 13.
P.S.: Always write your own love story
Ciao!
Lady E
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