The most profoundly beautiful song about lost love that I've ever heard is "How Could I Let You Get Away?" by the Spinners. The mood, the lyrics, the soulful harmony, the quiet vibes in the background, the fabulously eloquent electric sitar solo in the middle...I cried my fool eyes out the first time that I heard it. It never received enough airplay.
Please listen to every word, every nuance, every breath -- let it take you where it took me -- baptized in my own tears.
I was at a girlfriend's house (she'd turned me on to the album), and I lied to her and said that I had to run outside and "check something in my car." I was ashamed that a song could touch me so deeply. I couldn't catch my breath. I should have told her the truth - but I was young.
When I came back inside, she asked me why my eyes were so red. I mumbled something about allergies...
I think that she's probably figured out the truth by now. Funny, too, because I think of her every time I hear this song.
Please listen. I hope that you'll hear what I heard and feel what I felt.
Just click to hear the Spinners perform "How Could I Let You Get Away?" Young love is so very precious, and life is so fleeting. Take this moment, and dedicate it to an old love -- maybe a first love... you never really get over it. We just tuck it away in a special corner of our souls.
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