#in love with a girl
Gavin DeGraw - Face the River
Gavin DeGraw – Face the River
Multi-platinum recording artist Gavin DeGraw has released his very personal new single “Face The River,” which is the title track from his forthcoming album out May 20 via RCA Records. On the track, written by DeGraw, his distinct intonation quivers above sparse piano before the organ-laden beat simmers. This slow-burn catches fire on a heavenly hook as he croons, “Try to face the river. I cannot…
when a girl breaks your heart and shatters it beyond repair –beyond your capacity to understand, or forgive, or accept, and then attempts to piece it back together as if you could go back to the way you used to be before she practically destroyed you.
Then she tells you “All these things made me realize how much I love you.”
And what you feel is how all these things made you realize how much she didn’t.
And you try to go along with her and see if there are still better days ahead, but your thoughts are too loud and those awful memories won’t leave you alone.
And you can’t decide whether you still really want to be with the person or you should stand your ground, knowing that a person who can hurt you like this is not someone you’d want to have in your life.
Because you still love her, despite everything, which makes it somehow complicated.
But you feel like you haven’t had that required space and time to heal and to forget, to recover and to forgive, and to give it all a proper cry.
But at the same time you know that that space and time can only make it worse, because you know she will not save herself for you and this will make you leave her for good.
So you stay with her and watch her piece you back together, but you’re not thinking “thank you for trying to fix me”, you’re thinking “your capacity to destroy me now equals your capacity to love me.”
And maybe it’s okay to not accept or forgive some things when you’re not ready.
And maybe it’s fine to lose someone who was okay with losing you.
So you stick around, because you’ve already gone through the worst. There is nothing she can do to hurt you further. And there is nothing to stop you from leaving when you feel like you have to.
