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Writer's pictureLucian@going2paris.net

How Long?



Hidden Hills

November 5, 2024


Keeping with the theme of heartache, my friend Anna Koester sent me the following text:



She wins.


As I replied to Anna, this song is a direct hit. (I thought about including the Gap Band’s “You Dropped A Bomb On Me” but decided it would distract from the poignancy of the message.)


One day, hopefully soon, when I write about the answers I have found I will site this song and how it is ok to feel this way. It’s taken me a long, long time to realize that, and even now I beat myself up a good deal of the time.


From 1970:




Love will abide

Take things in stride

Sounds like good advice

But there's no one at my side

And time washes clean love's wounds unseen

That's what someone told me

But I don't know what it means


'Cause I've done everything I know

To try and make you mine

And I think I'm gonna love you

For a long long time


Caught in my fears

Blinking back the tears

I can't say you hurt me

When you never let me near

And I never drew one response from you

All the while you fell all over girls you never knew


'Cause I've done everything I know

To try and make you mine

And I think it's gonna hurt me

For a long long time


Wait for the day you'll go away

Knowing that you warned me

Of the price I'd have to pay

And life's full of flaws

Who knows the cause?

Living in the memory of a love that never was


'Cause I've done everything I know

To try and change your mind

And I think I'm gonna miss you

For a long long time


'Cause I've done everything I know

To try and make you mine

And I think I'm gonna love you

For a long long time

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