This song came on today as I was in my florist workshop.
I very nearly fell to pieces.
It wasn’t that I felt lonely from lack of human love, and this song bought the loneliness to light. No, it was Spiritual – I felt lonely for the love of the Divine.
I felt a deep soul-pull, a longing and loneliness for connection with God, with Divine Love, with Perfect Love – the Lover of my Soul – where only it is possible for my love needs to be fully met.
Was it that I was feeling fragile? Or, that the song stirred within me what I know to be the greatest of all need – to be in the presence of His Presence, where love is, where I am loved to my very soul?
The song touched me this way –
2 lonely lovers:
one human, longing for love that is very rarely experienced,
the other Divine, longing for communion with one they love.
It was an invitation to commune in this place of Love, to just sit for awhile in this Love.
Divine Love:
I know it’s late
I know you’re weary
And I know your plans don’t include me
Still, here we are, both of us lonely
Longing for shelter from all that we see
Why should we worry? No one will care girl
Look at the stars now, so far away
We’ve got tonight
Who needs tomorrow?
We’ve got tonight, babe
Why don’t you stay?
Me:
Deep in my soul
I’ve been so lonely
All of my hopes fading away
I’ve longed for love
Like everyone else does
I know I’ll keep searching after today
Divine Love:
So there it is girl
We’ve got it all now
And here we are, babe
What do you say?
We’ve got tonight
Who needs tomorrow?
We’ve got tonight, babe
Why don’t we stay?
I know it’s late and I know you’re weary
I know your plans don’t include me (still here we are)
Both of us lonely
Both of us lonely
We’ve got tonight
Who needs tomorrow?
Let’s make it last
Let’s find a way
Turn out the light
Come take my hand now
We’ve got tonight, babe
Why don’t we stay?
We’ve got tonight, babe
Why don’t we stay?
(Song and Lyrics by Bob Seger)
Secular – relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred – songs often do that for me. They move me in an emotional and spiritual way more than a worship song or hymn does. The lyrics being written as humanity’s desperate search for love, and it is this that connects me to them. For so long secular music was called the Devil’s music in my religious era! How wrong this notion was! How sad, looking back, this makes me feel now!
Here, through a secular song, We’ve Got Tonight, was a Divine invite into Love. Felt just for a fleeting moment. A stirring in my soul. But one which touched me at just the right place, to make me stop, feel deep its invitation, the longing for it, enough of a longing and a pull for me to search out the full lyrics and write something down…
– and then it were gone again.
“Did you just walk on through God? Did the breeze of your cloak touch me as you did? Did the Divine just brush past me with an invite to commune even if for a short moment in this place of “Who are you God?” that I find myself in? Whatever this was, it was a transcendent moment with you. You, the Divine Lovers of my soul”.
And I find myself again in-Love, and out of it I will not go.