#81

What do you do when the girl you want is beyond your grasp? When you know both of you care about each other and she’s about to be going off faraway and her parents don’t like you and you’re just an average guy and she’s something really special and when there are problems back at home? Seems like a really complex situation, yeah? It definately is if you just think about it and try to decide what you need to do. There’s too many facets to it, there’s too many maybes and possiblilities and too many angles. So what do you do when the situation is like that? It’s simple. There really is only one answer. Just one. You do something crazy.

What other kind of choices are there honestly? If something is important enough to you, if there are just too many problems to effectively cope with, you need something much more than just a plan to deal with the problems. Sure, that’d work, but if something is that stressful then something needs to be done to restore faith in both sides. And that can only be achieved in one way. There is only one way to do this correctly…

You drive to her house. You make sure your stereo has those huge, unwieldy batteries, and you crank it up some, hold it above your head, and you play Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” Up at her window. There is simply no other way.

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love, I get so lost sometimes
days pass and this emptiness fills my heart
when I want to run away
I drive off in my car
but whichever way I go
I come back to the place you are

all my instincts, they return
and the grand facade, so soon will burn
without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside

in your eyes
the light, the heat
in your eyes
I am complete
in your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
in your eyes
the resolution of all the fruitless searches
in your eyes
I see the light and the heat
in your eyes
oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light
the heat I see in your eyes

love, I don’t like to see so much pain
so much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away
I get so tired of working so hard for our survival
I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive

and all my instincts, they return
and the grand facade, so soon will burn
without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside

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Peter Gabriel – In Your Eyes