You hope it's like the movies

- Going through these songs is a swirl of memories, many similar, with subtle different tinges to things. The fact that I wrote it down neither makes it permanent, nor unique - but it helps in a cathartic sort of way.  It helps to see that "this too shall pass". That this experience isn't unique in my or most anyone's life.  People are different, and in so, relationships will to varying degrees have complications, period.  The more entwined you get, the more "knobs and levers" there are to yank on, which results in differences, friction and frustration. And at the same time, the more love that flows back and forth, the more "lubricated" the mechanisms of relationship are; forgiveness, humor, understanding, empathy, and perhaps most of all, optimism and hope.  This song, from the mid to late eighties, is about hope.  It was written for a friend named Melinda I met at Palomar College, that was going through hard times with boyfriend after boyfriend.  And here's a wish into the ether, that Melinda found her hero...

You hope it's like the movies

Once you thought it was special, that this time love might last,
Once you thought he was perfect, but you were wrong, like so often in the past.
Now you think you know better, and you won't get fooled again -
But that special someone, doesn't want to just stay a friend.

And you hope it's like the movies, where the hero always wins,
And the bad guy always gets it, in the end...

Long ago you were happy, without needing someone near.
Was a time that loving meant, ever caring, never needing fear.
Now that that's all over, you wish someone would lend -
A lonely girl a heart, that she'd never need to mend.

And you hope it's like the movies, where the hero always wins,
And the bad guy always gets it, in the end...

(C) 2011, Dave Cox