Accidentally in Love

I remember early on in my newly single life, chatting with a friend about the kind of man I thought I would (and didn't think I'd) fall in love with. You never know, she said, you might just fall in love and not really have a choice. At the time, I didn't buy it. Of course I had a choice. I always have a choice.

Which is certainly true, to some extent. But not entirely. Relatively early on in my long-distance relationship with my current man, I tried a couple of times to shut down my feelings, thinking that it was for the best because the distance was so hard. "You can't just turn it off," my sister warned. And it turned out, I really couldn't.

Cue the Counting Crows:

So she said, "What's the problem baby?"

What's the problem I don't know

Well maybe I'm in love, think about it every time

I think about it, can't stop thinking 'bout it

How much longer will it take to cure this

Just to cure it 'cause I can't ignore it if it's love

Makes me wanna turn around and face me

But I don't know nothing about love

Come on, come on

Turn a little faster

Come on, come on

The world will follow after

Come on, come on

Because everybody's after love

So I said, "I'm a snowball running"

Running down into the spring

That's coming all this love melting under

Blue skies belting out sunlight, shimmering love

Well baby I surrender to the strawberry ice cream

Never ever end of all this love

Well I didn't mean to do it

But there's no escaping your love

Now that he's out here and struggling a bit with the Midwestern landscape and a stressful day job, I think at least a little part of my man is finding this love a little inconvenient. Lucky for me, for the time being at least, accidentally or not, he is in love, so we're doing our best to make it work:

Come on, come on

Move a little closer

Come on, come on

I want to hear you whisper

Come on, come on

Settle down inside my love

Come on, come on

Jump a little higher

Come on, come on

If you feel a little lighter

Come on, come on

We were once upon a time in love

We're accidentally in love

Accidentally in love

Accidentally in love

Accidentally in love