Can you feel the love tonight?

When I was in High School in the early 1990s, I used to listen and even sing Bryan Adams’ remarkable song “Please forgive me,” which came out in 1993. Consider these enduring words of pure gold:

“So if you’re feeling lonely, don’t
You’re the only one I’ll ever want
I only want to make it good
So if I love you, a little more than I should….
The one thing I depend on
Is for us to stay strong
With every word and every breath I’m praying
That’s why I’m saying”

Bryan Adams, “Please Forgive Me”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EHAo6rEuas

Another favorite song of mine was “Ne me quitte pas” (“Do not Leave Me”) by the renowned Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel, which he composed in 1959. I truly believe this is the most beautiful love song every written in the history of romantic music. The words of the songs are deeply grounded in covenantal love. Consider the eternal words from this stanza:

Moi, je t’offrirai
Des perles de pluie
Venues de pays
Où il ne pleut pas
Je creuserai la terre
Jusqu’après ma mort
Pour couvrir ton corps
D’or et de lumière

Je ferai un domaine
Où l’amour sera roi
Où l’amour sera loi
Où tu seras reine
Ne me quitte pas

[I, I will offer you
Pearls of rain
From lands
Where it doesn’t rain
I will dig the earth
Until after my death
To cover your body
With gold and light.

I will create a domain

Where love will be king

Where love will be law

Where you will be queen

Don’t leave me]

“Ne me quitte pas,” Jacques Brel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz6r0TP4FBI

At any rate, I used to sing both songs frequently as if I had broken a girl’s heart and I was seeking her forgiveness and begging her to return to me. 🙂 🙂 🙂

The fact was that I did not have a girlfriend in 1993 or was I even dating in my freshman and sophomore years. Hey, I was not even in love or maybe, I “Wanna Be Loved,” in the words of Buju Banton 🙂 🙂 🙂

Buju Banton, “Wanna Be Loved” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwSU0rcVTaE

Wanna be loved
Not for who you think I am
Nor what you want me to be
Could you love me for me?
I wanna give you me heart
Don’t want to take it back
This is my chat-cho

Everybody’s laughing
Some say I’m silly
No infatuation, no love fantasy
Woman you lead my life on a string
I can’t tale the on and off thing
I’m oh so lonely inside so I sing…

Cross my heart, every day I live I pray
And I know she’ll come my way
Night and day for this woman I pray