Real Love

Yesterday during rake-a-thon 2013, I was listening to Slacker to help keep me going. I was listening to the "55 best songs of the 90s" -- which included some really great tunes that brought back a lot of memories.

I love Mary J., but this song, number 55, wasn't one that I was particularly excited to hear:

We are lovers through and through and though
We made it through the storm
I really want you to realize
I really want to put you on

I've been searchin' for someone
To satisfy my every need
Won't you be my inspiration
Be the real love that I need

Real love, I'm searchin' for a real love
Someone to set my heart free
Real love, I'm searchin' for a real love

Not when I heard it the first time:

Ooh, when I met you I just knew
That you would take my heart and run
Until you told me how you felt for me
You said I'm not the one

So I slowly came to see
All of the things that you were made of
And now I hope my dreams and inspirations
Lead me to want some real love

Real love, I'm searchin' for a real love
Someone to set my heart free
Real love, I'm searchin' for a real love
I got to have a real love

Or the second time:

Love so true and oh baby, I thought that your love was true
I thought you were the answer to the questions in my mind
But it seems that I was wrong
If I stay strong maybe I'll find my real love

So I try my best and pray to God
He'll send me someone real
To caress me and to guide me
Towards a love my heart can feel

Now, I know I can be faithful
I can be your all in all
I'll give you good lovin' through
The summer time, winter, spring and fall

Real love, I'm searchin' for a real love
Someone to set my heart free
Real love, I'm searchin' for a real love

And definitely not the third time - - for some reason the top 55 just kept starting over -- and it started feeling like Mary J. had a message for me, whether I wanted it or not:

You see I'm searching for a real love and I don't know where to go
(Real love, I'm searchin' for a real love)
Been around the world and high and low and still I'll never know
(Someone to set my heart free)
How it feels to have a real love 'cause it seems it's not around
(Real love, I'm searchin' for a real love)
Gotta end it in this way because it seems he can't be found

Real love, I'm searchin' for a real love
Someone to set my heart free
Real love, I'm searchin' for a real love

Yes I am...