Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Starting Over

During my run today, which happens to be the last day of 2006, the song "Starting Over" by John Lennon came up on random play on my ipod. I have always loved that song. Even tho it's happy, it comes off bittersweet, for obvious reasons. The lyrics are so hopeful, and John sounds so happy about his life being back on track with Yoko. And then of course, even before the album came out, we all know what happened...

So I listened to this song over and over as I ran thinking about John and Yoko and feeling sad for them and all the years they missed out on.

It's that time of year when we think about things we can do to improve our lives (resolutions!) and I thought hearing this song today was so magically appropriate. (Is the ipod song shuffle really random?) I could set the usual resolutions: "Cut down on the Diet Coke addiction I've got going on", "Keep my refriderator clean", "Brush my poochie's teeth more regularly", etc. or I could instead think of John's lyrics and this message...

It's easy to get lazy and take the most important person in your life for granted. And it's easy to start focusing on trivial things instead that are clearly much less important. Maybe instead of a full blown New's Years resolution I'll just "re-dedicate" to REALLY showing all the love I feel to the one I truly love...

(Just Like) Starting Over Lyrics

Our life together is so precious together
We have grown, we have grown
Although our love is still special
Let's take a chance and fly away somewhere alone

It's been too long since we took the time
No-one's to blame, I know time flies so quickly
But when I see you darling
It's like we both are falling in love again
It'll be just like starting over, starting over

Everyday we used to make it love
Why can't we be making love nice and easy
It's time to spread our wings and fly
Don't let another day go by my love
It'll be just like starting over, starting over

Why don't we take off alone
Take a trip somewhere far, far away
We'll be together all alone again
Like we used to in the early days
Well, well, well darling

It's been too long since we took the time
No-one's to blame, I know time flies so quickly
But when I see you darling
It's like we both are falling in love again
It'll be just like starting over, starting over

Our life together is so precious together
We have grown, we have grown
Although our love is still special
Let's take a chance and fly away somewhere

Starting over

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