i bought a great cd at target for $8.99. it is bad boy heartbreak power ballads. it includes awesome hits from my younger years like : is this love by whitesnake, high enough by damn yankees, heaven by warrant, every rose has its thorn by poison, when i see you smile by bad english, to be with you by mr. big, and more than words by extreme…just to name a few! so tracie and i are driving back home from subway last night listening to the cd with the windows down and singing really loud. i mean how else do you listen to great 80s  and early 90s music?  so we get to the song more than words and are like i love this song!!! then we start singing it and listening to what we are saying and all of a sudden i realize what this guy is saying.  and i am like oh my gosh i just now figured out what he was singing about, and tracie was like, um, pretty sure me too.  oh my gosh.  i can’t believe i used to sing this all the time when i was in 8th grade! here’s the words.  you read them and see if it takes you 16 years to figure out what it means because that is what it took us.

Saying I love you
Is not the words I want to hear from you
It’s not that I want you
Not to say, but if you only knew
How easy it would be to show me how you feel
More than words is all you have to do to make it real
Then you wouldn’t have to say that you love me
‘Cause I’d already know

What would you do if my heart was torn in two?
More than words to show you feel
That your love for me is real
What would you say if I took those words away?
Then you couldn’t make things new
Just by saying I love you

More than words…..

Now I’ve tried to talk to you and make you understand
All you have to do is close your eyes
And just reach out your hands and touch me
Hold me close don’t ever let me go
More than words is all I ever needed you to show
Then you wouldn’t have to say that you love me
‘Cause I’d already know

What would you do if my heart was torn in two?
More than words to show you feel
That your love for me is real
What would you say if I took those words away?
Then you couldn’t make things new
Just by saying I love you