Time Is Love

A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend helps you bury the body. -TyRoy


Another one of my strongly held personal beliefs has always been that a real friend is someone who is there for you, no matter what the hour is or how inconvient it is. When I had few friends and lots of time, it was really easy for that to be a two-way street. But I know that I haven't been the best at this in the past couple of years. I really haven't been there like I should for the people that I really care about. I've also found that the high level of expectations I have for a "real friend" is perhaps a bit to high, or leads to too much black & white, "you're either with me or against me" thinking on my part, especially as we all grow up and have other burdens on our time. This isn't to say that I excuse the behavior I talked about in a previous blog post, where people just f'n disappear forever. Just that I know I have disappearred or just taken longer than I would have liked to get back to someone, because I was being stingy with both my time and my love. But I am working to change that. I hope that other people in my life are too.

I thought I'd share this new song that I really like and that made me think about all this. Here's the official video, but it's not hugely interesting so the one I've embedded is something someone else made with the lyrics.


For those who can't watch the video/listen to the song at the moment (but who absolutely should listen to it as soon as they aren't at work and I don't care if it is country), here are the lyrics:
i know i gotta put in the hours,
make the money while the sunlight shines
but anything i gotta get done,
it can get done some other time

time is love, gotta run,
love to hang longer,
but i got someone who waits,
waits for me and right now
she's where i need to be,
time is love, gotta run

i only get so many minutes,
don't wanna spend 'em all on the clock
in the time that we spent talkin',
how many kisses have i lost?

time is love, gotta run,
love to hang longer,
but i got someone who waits,
waits for me and right now
she's where i need to be,
time is love, gotta run.

gotta fly
fly
before one moment
gets by

time is love, gotta run,
love to hang longer,
but i got someone who waits,
waits for me and right now
she's where i need to be

time is love, gotta run,
love to hang longer,
but i got someone who waits,
waits for me and right now
she's where i need to be,
time is love, gotta run.

time is love, gotta run