Stay With You

This morning I drove to the East Side for an early morning yoga practice, and on the way home I got to shed a few tears to the tune of an old fave: Journey's Open Arms.

As you can see by that link, I've already used that song in this blog. But it spoke to me in a different way this morning, and inspired the choice for today's song. You see, the emphasis for me with Journey's Open Arms used to be "So now I'll come to you, with open arms..." And I did that, before, I really did.

But now the emphasis for me is "I need you to stay." I needed this before too, but I repeatedly ignored the signs that I was with someone who was really never sure, as far as I can tell, that he wanted to/was able to/was planning to stay.

That's gotta change for the next time around for sure. It's gotta change to a tune more like this one:

Oh I'll stay with you through the ups and the downs
Oh I'll stay with you when no one else is around
And when the dark clouds arrive
I will stay by your side
I know we'll be alright
I will stay with you

Though relationships can get old
They have the tendency to grow cold
We have something like a miracle
Yeah, and I'll stay with you

My miracle is coming. I know it is...