DurhamNtx's blog: "Music"

Most of you know I enjoy a broad range of music - from AC/DC to Brahms to Zager & Evans to ZZ Top. I was in a mood to listen to some country while taking my mom to get her car (the alignment needed adjusting) and I heard this...

Consider Me Gone
Performed by Reba McEntire

Every time I turn the conversation
To something deeper than the weather
I can feel you all but shuttin' down

And when I need an explanation
For the silence you just tell me
You don't wanna talk about it now.

What you're not saying is coming in loud and clear
We're at a crossroads here.

Chorus:
If I'm not the one thing you can't stand to lose
If I'm not that arrow to the heart of you
If you don't get drunk on my kiss
If you think you can do better than this
Then I guess we're done
Let's not drag this on
Consider me gone

With you I've always been wide open
Like a window or an ocean
And there is nothing I've ever tried to hide
So when you leave me not knowin' where you're goin'
I start thinkin' that we're lookin'
We're lookin' at goodbye.

How about a strong shot of honesty?
Don't you owe that to me?

Chorus

Consider me a memory.
Consider me the past.
Consider me a smile in an old photograph
Someone who used to make you laugh.

If I'm not the one thing you can't stand to lose
If I'm not that arrow to the heart of you
Then I guess we're done
Let's not drag this on.
Consider me gone.
Consider me gone.
Consider me gone.
Just consider me gone

And I kept thinking all through the song, "THIS is love, And it DOES exist! THIS is what I'm working for - how it SHOULD be."