i'll be loving you..

And on Valentine's day,
I was walking up to the 5th floor food court to get some time away during lunch.
And as I was waiting on the escalator, the concourse was blasting this very song
as clear as it could possibly be like when someone was singing solo up on the stage with his guitar
it sounded so close
I don't know what song this is
but i know ' if you get there before I do, don't give up on me. And between now and then, i'll be loving you, love me.'
And I was so touched.



and I didn't know,
the lyrics goes like this:


I read a note my grandma wrote back in 1923
Grandpa kept it in his coat and he showed it once to me
He said boy you might not understand
But a long, long time ago
Grandma’s daddy didn’t like me none
But I loved your grandma so

We had this crazy plan to meet
And run away together
Get married in the first town we came to and live forever
But nailed to the tree where we were supposed to meet instead
I found this letter
And this is what it said

If you get there before I do
Don't give up on me
I’ll meet you when my chores are through
I don’t know how long I’ll be
But I’m not gonna let you down
Darling wait and see
And between now and then ‘til I see you again
I’ll be loving you, love, me

I read those words just hours before my grandma passed away
In the doorway of a church
Where me and grandpa stopped to pray
I know I’d never seen him cry in all my 15 years
But as he said these words to her
His eyes filled up with tears

If you get there before I do
Don't give up on me
I’ll meet you when my chores are through
I don’t know how long I’ll be
But I’m not gonna let you down
Darling wait and see
And between now and then ‘til I see you again
I’ll be loving you, love me
Between now and then ‘til I see you again
I’ll be loving you, love, me


***********************
..love me




*oh man, close to tears.