Love made sweet and sad the same

Love is everything

KD Lang's version of Love is Everything summarises how I feel right now about the experience of a love relationship. It's not easy, is it? I've discovered that being with someone requires an enormous capacity to give selflessly, expecting nothing in return. For me, expecting someone else to be the person I want them to be only brings suffering, for me, them, us. To love selflessly requires a capacity for deep self-love -- something that I am not always alive to. It requires a disposition of acceptance and surrender to what is, without attachment to what should be or could be. How's that like my life?

See KD Lang sing Love is Everything here on YouTube

Maybe it was to learn how to love
Maybe it was to learn how to leave
Maybe it was for the games we played
Maybe it was to learn how to choose
Maybe it was to learn how to lose
Maybe it was for the love we made

Love is everything they said it would be
Love made sweet and sad the same
But love forgot to make me too blind to see
You're chickening out aren't you?
You're bangin' on the beach like an old tin drum
I cant wait 'til you make
The whole kingdom come
So I'm leaving

Maybe it was to learn how to fight
Maybe it was for the lesson in pride
Maybe it was the cowboys' ways
Maybe it was to learn not to lie
Maybe it was to learn how to cry
Maybe it was for the love we made

Love is everything they said it would be
Love did not hold back the reins
But love forgot to make me too blind to see
You're chickening out aren't you?
You're bangin' on the beach like an old tin drum
I cant wait 'til you make
The whole kingdom come
So I'm leaving

First he turns to you
Then he turns to her
So you try to hurt him back
But it breaks your body down
So you try to love bigger
Bigger still
But it...it's too late

So take a lesson from the strangeness you feel
And know you'll never be the same
And find it in your heart to kneel down and say
I gave my love didn't I?
And I gave it big...sometimes
And I gave it in my own sweet time
I'm just leaving

Love is everything...

(Lyrics: Jane Silberry)