Just Another Page in Your Life... Love Stories

Jennifer Holliday is known for that song from Dreamgirls.

"And you, and you, and you... YOU GONNA LOVE ME!!!!"

I'm sorry, I don't know the name of the song... only the words.  And I always imagine her singing it with a gun drawn on dude. Sigh. (You gotta admit, it's a bit stalkerish).

That song isn't my favorite by her. Oh yes, it's highly charged and emotional, but not my favorite.

My favorite song by Jennifer Holliday is Love Stories.




Here are the lyrics....

Three o'clock in the morning, and I’m talking with my best friend
Trying to find myself a reason as to why things had to end
Seems like a lifetime, though it was yesterday
Where ever there is love, there’ll always be a price to pay.


I run to my Mama, cause home is a safe place to be
We’ll sit down together and she’ll say these words to me:


Just another page in your life
Talking ‘bout Love Stories
Just another page in your life, baby girl


Going back into the world
I find myself falling again
Just like the television drama
The story that never ends
How on earth can this be?
I seem to have no control
Just one look into your eyes
That’s when the love takes hold.


I run to my best friend, cause she’s always there when I need
We’ll sit down together, and she’ll say the same thing to me.
Hear me when I tell you


Just another page in your life
Talking ‘bout Love Stories
Just another page in your life, baby girl


Just another page in your life, baby


Just another page in your life
Talking ‘bout Love Stories
Just another page in your life, baby girl


[How on earth can this be?
I seem to have no control
Just one look in your eyes
And that’s when the love takes hold]


I run to my best friend, cause she’s always there when I need
We’ll sit down together, and she’ll say the same thing to me.
Hear me when I tell you


Just another page in your life
Love Stories
Just another page in your life, baby girl


Just another page in my life
Love Stories
Just another page in your life, baby girl


Just another page
Love Stories, in my life


Just another page, baby
Just another page, baby


In my life


(Seems like only yesterday, when we laughed, we talked we played... we said our love will always, will never end... but somehow I lost control, I don't want to let you go..)


An Oldgirl's Thoughts

I LOVE that song. First of all, it is upbeat. Jennifer Holliday singing an upbeat song? Hmm...

But it speaks to life as a whole.  I notice with young folks, when a break up happens, or something similar happens, they act like it's the end of the world. I've acted that way too.  Yep, it's the end of the world.

When it's not.

I know myself that if I'm highly upset, it is because I fear that the feeling I am having is permanent.  When it isn't.  It's temporary.

The older I get, the more I understand that.

Life is like a book. It has many chapters. It has many pages. I don't stay on the same page. And sometimes chapters are long, but they eventually end.

Then new chapters of life begin.

Trust me. You wouldn't be all devastated over that breakup if you knew that someone better for you would come along in the future. Thank goodness you broke up with that person.

I don't think I understood that when I was young. Not enough chapters in the book, I suppose.

And whether it be good or bad things happening... these are the issues of life.

As the mother says in the song. "Just another page in your life..."

It is a page... not the whole book.

For the book is a cacophony of stories... the good, the bad, and the ugly. Some chapters of the book make us laugh, some make us cry... and there's always that stretch of chapters that will have everyone going O_o or O_O.

And even though there are 7 billion people walking this earth, no two stories are the same. Our stories are all different.  Ain't that something?

Do you realize how utterly unique you are?

Hmm...

Anyway, that song makes me ponder.

And continue to wonder.

Thought I'd post it.

Hope you enjoyed it!