Soft

I was out hanging with some friends the other night, performing some Karaoke and watching some people not perform karaoke and Mr. Wonderful (yes he is a local entertainer named Mr. Wonderful) got up to sing " Dance with my father". I had to walk out of the room, and I usually don't but I was feeling a tad bit emotional and didn't quite know why.

This last season I was in a play called 10,000 cigarettes and we ended our play with that song and it was very emotional for me and I heard it again. I never danced with my father but the one thing I miss the most is his embrace. Anyone who has ever hugged my dad knows this feeling. I mean, have you ever had someone to just put there arms around you and hug you with no agenda but to love you? He had that affect on everyone he hugged, held, or embraced. That is what I think that I miss the most about him and probably what most of the people who knew him miss about him.

After hearing this performance of "Dance with my father", I went home and laid in my bed alone and played a song by Boney James featuring Oleta Adams. I had never cried before when I heard that song but this time I did. In my singleness I know that I want from my future husband the same tenderness that my father had with me. The first words she says is "Send me love that's soft". That is what most of us want, not so much a sensitive man but a man who can love us with a gentle tenderness. The climax of the song is when she says Let me know a love that's warm Warmer than the sun and sips of brandy wine The white coals of a fire so warm I'll never tire...Of how he touches me. As I lay there in my bed, I could literally remember the feeling of my dad's embraced, so I closed my eyes, and went to sleep.

I thought I would just share that with you. Don't worry, I am not crying. I am smiling. Because memories are the best things that you can have of someone when they are gone, and it's not the big things like family vacations or things that they bought you, these are all good and well, but just remembering someone’s hug can bring a smile to your face.




Such Beautiful Lyrics:

Send me love that's soft
Let me know a love that's soft
Softer than a cloud
And roses moist with rain
A child's gentle kiss
Make his love soft like this
And send me love that's warm
Let me know a love that's warm
Warmer than the sun
And sips of brandy wine
The white coals of a fire
So warm I'll never tire...
Of how he touches me
Send me love that's soft,
So soft.
So soft
Send me a love that's soft.