Last weekend, a song I knew from eons ago—like 3 decades and more— suddenly popped up in my mind. So I went to YouTube to listen to it while folding the newly laundered clothes. It surprised me how after 3 decades of not hearing the song, I still knew EVERY WORD of it—that I was able to sing along without even pausing to recall the lyrics. The words just came out effortlessly, like it's as easy as ABC.
To think that I couldn't trust my memory anymore, sometimes, since I keep forgetting some things that just happened and even some lyrics of some more-recent-than-3-decades popular songs I memorized before. I guess it's true that the heart remembers what the mind forgets. This song, I'm certain now, was absorbed by the heart.
CLOSE TO YOU
Tricia Amper
I need to understand
Your perfecgt will
Your perfect plan for me
In my life, my Lord
Help me to be strong
Lord, I need to know where I belong
Stay with me, I need to get back
Chorus:
Close to You
I’m so afraid to walk alone
I’m needing You
To carry me and make me see
That You will always care
Lord, I have lost my way
But now I find myself
I’m here to stay with You
To serve You more, oh Lord
You’re the one I need
If my life is all that I can give
Take it, Lord, I need to get back
(Repeat Chorus)
PS. But why did it have to make me cry buckets while repeatedly singing my heart out to it while driving on my way home? Or is it just the hormones?
