Love or Something Like It

Written by Timothy Welbeck

Biblical References: Genesis 1:28; 2:15, Proverbs 5:3; 18:22; 22:14; 31:10-31, Ecclesiastes 3:11; Malachi 2:15, I Corinthians 6:13-18; 13:4-10, I Thessalonians 4:3, James 1:23, I Peter 1:16, I John 4:16

Hook
All of my life I searched to find/The woman crafted with me in mind/And we’d journey this life forever with our hands cupped together/My hand would be in hers, and her hand would be in mine(repeat)/And her and I, we would find love, or something like it

Verse 1
I didn’t believe in love at first sight until I saw you the first time/But after seeing you, it would seem like I learned fine/So pursuing you was more than worth trying/I was willing to move Heaven and earth just to say that you were mine/The story short is that I had to meet you/We would cross paths after class, then our other class would resume/That’s when I saw we had a mutual friend/Asked to be introduced, so I could know who you were and then/We sparked a chemistry, it was awkward initially/But the more we would talk, the more I saw that you were into me/And when it came, I took that opportunity to silence my pride that my heart may speak fluently/And declare there was a connection existing between you and me/You would feel it, and I would feel; but both of us feared/Our hearts were calling each other, and I knew you would hear it/But it took you moving for us to discuss what would become of us/That’s when we discussed we thought we were immersed in a perfect love/And found new ways to show it when our words were superfluous/We were in love, or least so we thought/But were we in love, when what we were doing wasn’t of God

Hook
All of my life I searched to find/The woman crafted with me in mind/And we’d journey this life forever with our hands cupped together/My hand would be in hers, and her hand would be in mine(repeat)/And her and I, we would find love, or something like it

Verse 2
Lady, we were in love or something like it/But you would have never guessed from the way that you and I meet/We met through a friend, he said that we would find bliss/We spoke on occasion, our interest coincided/And from there, all of our time was spent discussing the possibility of where you and I went/That’s when I lost control over my legs, and before I knew next, my heels had ventured over my head/And you and I, we spoke about marriage then/Envisioning the day we could do what our parents did/Espouse a soul-mate, and raise up some better kids/Together forever, we were getting no better then/Or so we thought, then we peaked as a couple/And fought to make it work the way that people in love do/But in the summer we fell like autumn leaves, when we saw who we are wasn’t who we ought to be—are and be

Hook
All of my life I searched to find/The woman crafted with me in mind/And we’d journey this life forever with our hands cupped together/My hand would be in hers, and her hand would be in mine(repeat)/And her and I, we would find love, or something like it

Verse 3
You were a vision of beauty, I witnessed truly/There was even a time when I let those images rule me/ I guess you can say we began innocently, but soon after we’d meet, our inner beings linked/And you became absorbed with the portion we had/And for it was a little more than me wanting you bad/You were the type of woman I was to join to my half/And we explored that when we would sit there and we’d talk/And saw this virtuous woman who was bearing her all/What I thought was a contrast to those whose embarrassing faults/Have them getting around more than carousels at the mall/And as we grew closer we talked about what we hoped to be/And I knew you were destined to make someone happy/But I need to know that he was me/So I let you go, though it wasn’t what we would want do/Because I knew one can be to me if that one is the wrong one

Hook
All of my life I searched to find/The woman crafted with me in mind/And we’d journey this life forever with our hands cupped together/My hand would be in hers, and her hand would be in mine(repeat)/And her and I, we would find love

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