I was listening to my iPod on shuffle today, and this song shuffled in…it’s on Garth Brooks’ album Sevens*, and I remember almost immediately zeroing in on it as a favorite.

This is how it seems to me
Life is only therapy
Real expensive
And no guarantee

So I lie here on the couch
With my heart hanging out
Frozen solid with fear
Like a rock in the ground

But you move me
You give me courage
I didn’t know I had
You move me on
I can’t go with you
And stay where I am
So you move me on

This is how love was to me
I could look and not see
Going through the emotions
Not knowin’ what they mean

And it scared me so much
That I just wouldn’t budge
I might have stayed there forever
If not for your touch

Oh but you move me
Out of myself and into the fire
You move me
Now I’m burning with love
And with hope and desire
How you move me

You go whistling in the dark
Making light of it
Making light of it
And I follow with my heart
Laughing all the way

Oh ‘cause you move me
You get me dancing and
you make me sing
You move me
Now I’m taking delight
In every little thing
How you move me

I’m not sure who the songwriter is, and I’m not sure where my actual physical copy of the CD is right now, but it’s a beautiful, beautiful song.

I remember feeling the fear and paralysis the songwriter describes. This song found me at a time when I was raw and ragged with the loss of my first real love. I was sure I would never feel that way again. And in a way, I was right.

It got so much better.

*Dear God, this album really came out ten years ago?