Musings :: "I Just Want You To Know Who I Am"

My pining days are over. I'm now married, with children.

But I have a song that still always gets to me.  It's my favorite song by my favorite American band.

I just love the lyrics.  These days, music artists seem to come out with songs that lack meaning.  So I like listening to the songs of my college days.  Alternative rock, back then, wasn't all just yelling around with a guitar.

"IRIS" by The Goo Goo Dolls

And I'd give up forever to touch you

'Cause I know that you feel me somehow

You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be

And I don't want to go home right now

And all I can taste is this moment

And all I can breathe is your life

When sooner or later it's over

I just don't want to miss you tonight

And I don't want the world to see me

'Cause I don't think that they'd understand

When everything's made to be broken

I just want you to know who I am

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming

Or the moment of truth in your lies

When everything feels like the movies

Yeah, you'd bleed just to know you're alive

And I don't want the world to see me

'Cause I don't think that they'd understand

When everything's made to be broken

I just want you to know who I am

And I don't want the world to see me

'Cause I don't think that they'd understand

When everything's made to be broken

I just want you to know who I am

And I don't want the world to see me

'Cause I don't think that they'd understand

When everything's made to be broken

I just want you to know who I am

I just want you to know who I am

I just want you to know who I am

I just want you to know who I am

And by the way, I loved the movie that featured this as its theme song: "City of Angels" starring Meg Ryan and Nicolas Cage (1998).

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