The words of one of my favourite songs by Rick Springfield,'Take these broken wings and learn to fly again and learn to live so free..". Although I love the song,it always sets me wondering how easy it is to really take the broken wings of a relationship and learn to fly again together. I think that when everyhting is good and lovy dovy in a relationship every aspect , whether good or bad in our counterpart seem fine for us. But just when things start going wrong for different reasons varying from liking somebody else,to long distance to choices ,is that we can actually understand our counterpart. We will begin to see those aspects of that person which we might have never imagined and which shock us. Suddenly the person who couldn't live without talking to us many times a day will be able to live without even a message for days together and that too happily ,atleast seemingly. Sudennly we may realise that there are so many other things important in their lives which we never thought of and which were actually of importance. We will see an entirely new perosn and suddenly feel as if we were fooling ourselves or perhaps they were fooling us. But the truth is that the true character of a person is only revealed in the way he or she deals with difficulties. It may take years to feel that we know a person but just a breakup to actually know a person.Yes I do understand that priorities start changing when a relationship breaks but then how can it be that we never really saw the image of that person whom we might have spent every moment knowing. It maybe because we were overlooking each other's negatives and only loving the positives. Probably because the negatives will not show until a problem arises.
After going through a bad phase ,when one of the people return and wants to start things all over again, or learn to fly again,is a time when you have actually seen every aspect of the other person. Then to decide whether you want to go ahead with it or not is the actual answer. After all a person,who cannot stand by you today in small relationship problems may not be able to stand by you throughout the tough journey of life. This really starts to strike in our minds. I don't say that the feelings might change easily but ,yes,so much of transformation happens in both the people that it just can't be the same.Rarely though it can happen but it shouldn't be another case of fooling our ownselves.
So here are the wordings of the song:
Baby I don't understand
Why we can't just hold on
To each other's hands
This time might be the last
I fear unless I make it all too clear
I need you so
Take these broken wings
And learn to fly again
And learn to live so free
And when we hear the voices sing
The book of love will open up
And let us in
Take these broken wings
Baby I think tonight
We can take what was wrong
To make it right
Baby it's all I know
That you're half of the flesh
And blood makes me whole
Need you so
Take these broken wings
And learn to fly again
And learn to live so free
And when we hear the voices sing
The book of love will open up
And let us in
Take these broken wings
You got to learn to fly
And learn to live so free
And when we hear the voices sing
Let us in
Let us in
Baby it's all I know
That you're half of the flesh
And blood makes me whole
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah so
Take these broken wings
And learn to fly again
And learn to live so free
And when we hear the voices sing
The book of love will open up
And let us in
Take these broken wings
You got to learn to fly
And learn to live so free
And when we hear the voices sing
The book of love will open up
And let us in