I hereby confess my affinity for pop music. If you hear tunes blaring from my boring, middle-aged- occupants home I’m scrubbing the floor, folding laundry, or doing any myriad of tasks made less tedious by The Top One Hundred at high volume.
Taylor Swift currently holds my number one spot with her song “Out of the Woods” from her album 1989 released in 2014. The following is the last verse and chorus:
Remember when you hit the brakes too soon?
Twenty stitches in the hospital room
When you started cryin', baby, I did, too
But when the sun came up, I was lookin' at you
Remember when we couldn't take the heat
I walked out and said, "I'm settin' you free,"
But the monsters turned out to be just trees
And when the sun came up, you were lookin' at me
You were lookin' at me
You were lookin' at me,
I remember, oh, I remember
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
In the clear yet?
Good
I suggest we never leave the woods in a relationship. We step together onto a shadowed path and hike our way through a dense forest. A forest filled with rough crags and steep valleys where the wind rustles the leaves and the sun peeks through to cast its warmth on your upturned faces. You wend your way together around blind corners and reach back to help the other when they stumble. Don’t yearn for the clearing; it never appears. Throw your arm around one another’s shoulders and relish the journey!