Typically when I'm writing, I will push "play" on iTunes and let the shuffle do the rest if I don't really know what I wanna listen to. When I do, I tend to discover gems like this that I haven't listened to in forever that need a little blog action. So here goes.
"You say you've seen too many things that turned out to be too good to be true, against your better judgment, opened up your heart, till you found the joke was on you. Looking out on the rest of our lives, if we're gonna be together or apart, about the only way I know how to come is right straight from my heart." The singer is dealing with someone who has been hurt more times than she cares to count, and it's probably done something to her heart. She's taken the chance to be open, to risk love, and she ended up with egg on her face and her heart in her hand. Yet, as the singer is taking time to assess what he wants - presumably to be with her - he is saying that such will not happen with him, because he only knows how to be honest and come from his heart when dealing with her.
"I want you now, I'll show you how I can be the man you need me to be. I've been around, but now I've found that you're the only one for me." In the chorus, he says that he wants to be with her. He wants a chance to prove that he can be for her what others have not been. Even though he's had his share of women (and possibly even some while they've been together), he has come to recognize that no one else can compare to her, and he's ready to give up all others, declaring her to be the only one for him.
"Say you'll never fall again, you won't subject yourself to such pain. If you give me half a chance I will, I'll never leave you standing out in the rain. But if you think that I could look you in your face and lie right through my teeth, then turn around and walk away. But cross my heart, girl, I care for you, and when I look into your eyes and I say..." The person that the singer is dealing with has decided to shut herself and her heart off from love, having had too many painful experiences in the past. This is understandable, because the pain we can endure from the side effects of love can be unbearable. But the singer is offering her his love, promising to be there for her and not to leave her as others have done. Presumably they know each other enough that she should be able to trust him, because he challenges her by saying that if she really thinks that he can look her in the face and lie to her about the way he feels, then she should walk away now. He may also be challenging her ability to trust in general, because most people who have been hurt find it very difficult to trust their hearts to people in the future. Either way, he is crossing his heart - in essence, promising before God - that his words and feelings are true, especially as he stands before her and looks into her eyes, seeing the beauty and the need of the one he loves.
"I need you so. I can't let go. I'm gonna be all that I can be. I want you still - I always will, cuz you're the only one for me." In what I'll call the second half of the chorus, he says that he not only wants her, but he needs her in his life, and he refuses to lose someone who cares about so dearly. He says that he is going to be all that he can be for her, because he knows that she deserves and because she is worth the investment. When you find the one you truly want, you should be willing to do whatever you need to do to make them part of your life. He says he wants her still, even through any number of things that they may have faced and gone through, and he won't change his mind on that, because he believes that she is the only one for him.
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