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"Kissing You" - Sade

I was experiencing song-block and knew far too well that if I just selected whatever came to mind without any real heart behind it...well, I wouldn't be able to write. So I typed in a few of my favorite artists like Sia, Anna Nalick and Jimmy Eat World, but although I love a lot of their music, their art just didn't quite call to me tonight. So then I thought, "Ok, just put the one song from Sade that you hate to love because it reminds you of a sad time in your life..." But of course at that very moment, the title left me. Figures...

So as I searched through Sade's list of songs, dreading the one I've been avoiding to write about for so long, I ran into this. My, my how I let myself forget this I can't say why... but how lovely it was to find again.

I first heard this song from the movie re-make of Romeo and Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. It makes me laugh a little thinking about it because I was so drawn to him and the way he portrayed his love with one of my favorite TV stars at the time (Claire started out playing a soft-spoken, nail-biting teenage girl infatuated with the idea of falling in love on the short-lived TV series My So-Called Life). And now there she was with a heartthrob confessing his longing for her as if she was the only woman in the world! What luck! Now every time I hear this song, I picture an aquarium full of fishes! Or falling into a swimming pool, drenched in my own clothes!

I can't help but think of a time when butterflies filled my stomach and when the sudden thrill of the next day made it hard to sleep. But then...I also let the thoughts of having someone know me as much as anyone can ever really know another be as comforting as feeling at home.

It's just so beautiful and soothing.

Just like a kiss.

Lyrics:

Pride can stand a thousand trials
The strong will never fall
But watching stars without you

My soul cries
Heaving heart is full of pain

Oooh, oooh, the aching
'Cause I'm kissing you, oooh
I'm kissing you, oooh

Touch me deep, pure and true
Give to me forever

'Cause I'm kissing you, oooh
I'm kissing you, oooh

Where are you now
Where are you now

'Cause I'm kissing you
I'm kissing you, oooh

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