Elevator buttons and morning air
Stranger’s silence makes me wanna take the stairs
If you were here, we’d laugh about their vacant stares
But right now, my time is theirs
Seems like there’s always someone who disapproves
They’ll judge it like they know about me and you
And the verdict comes from those with nothing else to do
The jury’s out, but my choice is you
So don’t you worry your pretty little mind
People throw rocks at things that shine
And life makes love look hard
The stakes are high, the water’s rough, but this love is ours
You never know what people have up their sleeves
Ghosts from your past gonna jump out at me
Lurking in the shadows with their lip gloss smiles
But I don’t care ’cause right now you’re mine
And you’ll say don’t you worry your pretty little mind
People throw rocks at things that shine
And life makes love look hard
The stakes are high, the water’s rough, but this love is ours
And it’s not theirs to speculate if it’s wrong and
Your hands are tough but they are where mine belong in
I’ll fight their doubt and give you faith with this song for you
‘Cause I love the gap between your teeth
And I love the riddles that you speak
And any snide remarks from my father about your tattoos will be ignored
‘Cause my heart is yours
So don’t you worry your pretty little mind
People throw rocks at things that shine
And life makes love look hard
And don’t you worry your pretty little mind
People throw rocks at things that shine
But they can’t take what’s ours, they can’t take what’s ours
The stakes are high, the water’s rough, but this love is ours
A really wonderful new song from Taylor Swift… I heard it this past Saturday for the first time… my fiance’ had all 5 of our kids at a local store, doing a bit of shopping and it sent me back thinking about many things she and I have been through, are going through, and probably will… and yet, as we always have said… we know what is right for us, we didn’t need other people to give us permission to live our lives, to make choices to not settle for what people approved of for their own reasons…
… it is often the case I have found myself holding conversations within the audience of my own thoughts, wishing I wasn’t without the one I need most… we can easily live a life of grey, of day to day with no regard to truly living, making the sacrifices to have the life with passion and joy, a love that sweeps us off of our feet every single day… a best-friend who holds our heart in their hand completely…
There will always be someone who believes they have the right to “speculate if it’s wrong” when they see people together, when they hear of the complicated roads that have led to where people are in life… some things are plain and simple wrong, no excuses or reasons can change that part of reality… but… once the desire to excuse past actions, mistakes, choices is fully gone, we acknowledge it is time to move on, time to keep the past on the edge of our memory… time to live our lives knowing we have made tragic and lifelong mistakes with consequences, and yet, we have found a chance, a second chance to live more fully than we ever dared to dream…
I love the lyric “the jury’s out but my choice is you…” It is humbling even in the smile it puts on my face and in my heart… I am far from perfect in any regard… I have made mistakes I can’t excuse… I have made choices that caused pain… and yet, I also admit those and others, and hope to live a life without ever making mistakes like that again, strive every day to be able to be called a “good man” and soon a “good husband…”
I live a love, a friendship, a life every day I never believed was possible, and in many ways, I still don’t… It is a challenge for me to accept I could be enough for the jury to be out and yet be so loved, so appreciated… to feel as though I matter so deeply, and without exception… to be the recipient of commitment and honesty, love, trust… how can a flawed man like me ever deserve such a blessing in my life in the precious form of a woman I love… in the eyes of one who makes me see so much with such kindness… in the touch of my best-friend reminding me to not fear, to rest assured in the safety of her love…
It comes back, for me, to this, we can’t worry ourselves because of what people say, might say, do or might do… they don’t have to understand us, they don’t have to approve of us… they can’t take what we have, “they can’t take what’s ours…” for me, the light of what we have shines beyond anything I could imagine… I have seen the light, our love, our passion, our friendship, our commitment, that which so many never find… and it is warm, it is pure, it’s like the clouds have lifted and the darkness has gone away…
We fight through so much in life, people, places, jobs, medical issues… and no matter what, we are hand in hand, we are making the choice to take the risks, embrace what our hearts first raced to tell us, what our minds told us couldn’t possibly be true, what logic argued against, what our past said “if only” to… and now, our hearts race to wake every day reminding our minds, yes, it was true, is true, and more than ever, we have what’s “ours” from now on… no one else will ever take what we have, what we fought side by side to keep and protect, no matter what…
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