From: owner-hotcakes-digest@smoe.org (hotcakes-digest) To: hotcakes-digest@smoe.org Subject: hotcakes-digest V1 #18 Reply-To: hotcakes@smoe.org Sender: owner-hotcakes-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-hotcakes-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk hotcakes-digest Sunday, August 16 1998 Volume 01 : Number 018 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Just like You Do [catman ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 23:16:23 +0100 From: catman Subject: Just like You Do if you think you're alone that you're the only one who is afraid let me tell you i feel just like you do and sometimes i stand back from desires and dreams i don't understand they overwhelm me i feel just like you do ...... and when it comes to love you want me to be the one to say the words: i love you but i fell just like you do but lets try to return to that brave innocence we once knew i wish you were an ocean so i could jump into you That last line just does me in. It really encapsulates my feelings at times with my partner. The whole song is beautiful and sad and hopeful. The use of the sax really lends itself to the strength of feeling in this song. The sax, for me, sounds like the heart. Carly uses the sax often to great effect. To know that one is not alone in experiencing feelings brings such joy and it is is necessary for all of us to know that none of the feelings we have are unique-someone, somewhere feels them too. Of course we cannot expereince another's feelings directly no matter how we long to get inside someone. Hence 'i wish you were an ocean so i could jump into you'. Our feelings are all we have and ultimately all we can share with another is the expression of those feelings-we cannot share the experience of our inner world with anyone. Our inner world is all that we can experience directly-and the one thing we must do alone. We can however journey thru these experiences with another side by side and encourage and hold one another even tho we cannot truly feel anothers feelings. This is what the song means to me. Just Like You Do is a wonderful song from a vastly underrated album, in my opinion. catman ------------------------------ End of hotcakes-digest V1 #18 *****************************