I was driving along today, listening to the radio (my first mistake) when it just occurred to me how typical love songs portray unhealthy obbessions, rather than actual love. The song which inspired this ephimany was "How Do I Live" by Leann Rimes. The lyrics sound more like grounds for a restraining order, rather than the foundation for a lasting relationship. They state that he's her "world, her heart, her soul" that's not a lot of pressure at all. "If you ever leave, you would take away everything good in my life." Really? Everything good? There wouldn't be sunrises or sunsets anymore? No more fireworks on Fourth of July? No snow at Christmas? Fireflies on summer evening? I guess not because the next verse says, "there would be no in sun my sky." Isn't someone telling you that they can't live without you, their life would be over if you leave, one of those red flag signs of an abusive relationship? Meanwhile who wants to be someone's EVERYTHING. I mean, how much pressure is that? I want to be someone's significant other, not their everything, and I don't want them to be my everything either. I want to still have friends, family, books, music, it's okay to be important to each other and not expect them to be EVERYTHING.
I don't think this song is romantic at all. I want to write an honest love song... Rough draft lyrics would go something like this.....
Spending time with you is so much fun. Of all things there are to do, it's more fun doing them with you.
Whenever I think about you, I smile.
I know you love me for real, because you don't expect me to change. You don't think it's ridculious when I do things like buy Hello Kitty purses, wear sparkly eyeliner, and hang up posters of Breakfast at Tiffany's instead of grown up art.
When I scream at the movie theater when there are scary parts; you just let me hold your arm as tight as I want and you laugh a little. Even though I know I just screamed in your ear.
I guess my love song needs some work. Lyrics don't even rhyme.
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