I Never Knew Love Like This

I love music that captures a very simple emotion by stringing clever and lovely words together, and then drapes those words over a piano. Lucky for me, I no longer listen to Snow Patrol thinking, "dang I wish I had that kind of love." Instead, it stirs up familiar butterflies, and I like to think they wrote this song about us.

You cool your bed-warm hands down on the broken radiator

And when you lay them freezing on me, I mumble, "can you wake me later?"

But I don't really want you to stop

And you know it, so it doesn't stop you

You run your hands from my neck to my chest

Crack the shutters open wide

I want to bathe you in the light of day

And just watch you as the rays tangle up around your face and body

I could sit for hours finding new ways to be awed each minute

Cause the daylight seems to want you just as much as I want you

It's been minutes it's been days

It's been all I will remember

Happy lost in your hair

And the cold side of the pillow

Your hills and valleys

Are mapped by my intrepid fingers

And in a naked slumber

I'll dream all this again

-Snow Patrol