When You Tell Me That You Love Me
My Aunt Amanda has been transferred to the Tom Baker Cancer Centre and this is my first time visiting her there since my last trip to Calgary a month ago. Her condition has improved and stabilized a lot since the last time I saw her, and I really thank God for that. The last time I was there a month ago, her condition was so bad that she was in excruciating pain all the time. Sighs...it is a horrible sight to see how a family member is in so much suffering and is fighting to live. Cancer is horrendous. Now, her pain has decreased a lot, and though she is still immobile, she is much more cheerful. Cancer patients have good and bad days, and in the last three days I was here, she had two good ones and one bad one. Please pray with me for her.
Being in a cancer centre really depresses me...seeing how young and old have the effects of cancer physically and emotionally. It can be such an emotionally challenging place to be at...but I have to give credit to the government for the extra funding cancer centre gets opposed to normal hospitals. There is a vast difference and that really makes a difference.
Tom Baker's is really quite a nice place...it is more comfortable and spacious, and each unit has a huge lounge. I really do like the lounge, though it is a cancer unit, there is a piano, many old rocking chairs and soft looking sofas, many baskets filled with different kinds of books and games (done jigsaw puzzles on the table), there's even a computer and a cd player. Though they have a few family rooms where relatives and visitors could rest, I often choose the lounge for it has a good view; a terrain of mountains. I've been tempted to play the piano since I've arrived, but have often been too busy helping my aunt in her room to actually have the time. Today, my aunt's pain was under control, and she wanted to go to the lounge to check her email, and so we went to the lounge in a wheelchair. She only managed to sit for 15 minutes and then the pain became unbearable again, but throughout the 15 minutes, I decided to play the piano.
I am no talented musician, but I do like playing soft music which really relaxes me, and I hoped that it would relax other people there too. I started playing some soft worship songs I liked, then just went on with anything that my fingers were playing, and without realizing, I started playing a tune which though it was familiar, I couldn't at that time think of the name of the song. Throughout that 15 minutes, many relatives and visitors came from rooms in curiousity to see who was playing the piano. However, when I was playing that song which I couldn't even think what it is, this caucasion woman came out, stood watching me/listening, and she began to cry. OH MY GOSH. I finished the song, and she disappeared, and then my aunt was in pain so we rushed to wheel her back to her room. After that, I was trying hard to think of the song, and a little while later, I realized what it was that I played.
It was this song:
WHEN YOU TELL ME THAT YOU LOVE ME (Diana Ross)
I wanna call the stars
Down from the sky
I wanna live a day
That never dies
I wanna change the world
Only for you
All the impossible
I wanna do
I wanna hold you close
Under the rain
I wanna kiss your smile
And feel the pain
I know what's beautiful
Looking at you
In a world of lies
You are the truth
And baby
Everytime you touch me
I become a hero
I'll make you safe
No matter where you are
And bring you
Everything you ask for
Nothing is above me
I'm shining like a candle in the dark
When you tell me that you love me
I wanna make you see
Just what I was
Show you the loneliness
And what it does
You walked into my life
To stop my tears
Everything's easy now
I have you here
And baby
Everytime you touch me
I become a hero
I'll make you safe
No matter where you are
And bring you
Everything you ask for
Nothing is above me
I'm shining like a candle in the dark
When you tell me that you love me
In a world without you
I would always hunger
All I need is your love to make me stronger
And baby
Everytime you touch me
I become a hero
I'll make you safe
No matter where you are
And bring you
Everything you ask for
Nothing is above me
I'm shining like a candle in the dark
When you tell me that you love me
You love me
When you tell me that you love me
This is perhaps the first time that I've actually looked carefully at the lyrics, and now I understand why the woman was crying. It is a song about love. About strength. About living. About not having regrets. About needing. About pain. About joy. About happiness.
Yes, above all, it is about love.
It moves me to tears as it did to the woman.
Being in a cancer centre really depresses me...seeing how young and old have the effects of cancer physically and emotionally. It can be such an emotionally challenging place to be at...but I have to give credit to the government for the extra funding cancer centre gets opposed to normal hospitals. There is a vast difference and that really makes a difference.
Tom Baker's is really quite a nice place...it is more comfortable and spacious, and each unit has a huge lounge. I really do like the lounge, though it is a cancer unit, there is a piano, many old rocking chairs and soft looking sofas, many baskets filled with different kinds of books and games (done jigsaw puzzles on the table), there's even a computer and a cd player. Though they have a few family rooms where relatives and visitors could rest, I often choose the lounge for it has a good view; a terrain of mountains. I've been tempted to play the piano since I've arrived, but have often been too busy helping my aunt in her room to actually have the time. Today, my aunt's pain was under control, and she wanted to go to the lounge to check her email, and so we went to the lounge in a wheelchair. She only managed to sit for 15 minutes and then the pain became unbearable again, but throughout the 15 minutes, I decided to play the piano.
I am no talented musician, but I do like playing soft music which really relaxes me, and I hoped that it would relax other people there too. I started playing some soft worship songs I liked, then just went on with anything that my fingers were playing, and without realizing, I started playing a tune which though it was familiar, I couldn't at that time think of the name of the song. Throughout that 15 minutes, many relatives and visitors came from rooms in curiousity to see who was playing the piano. However, when I was playing that song which I couldn't even think what it is, this caucasion woman came out, stood watching me/listening, and she began to cry. OH MY GOSH. I finished the song, and she disappeared, and then my aunt was in pain so we rushed to wheel her back to her room. After that, I was trying hard to think of the song, and a little while later, I realized what it was that I played.
It was this song:
WHEN YOU TELL ME THAT YOU LOVE ME (Diana Ross)
I wanna call the stars
Down from the sky
I wanna live a day
That never dies
I wanna change the world
Only for you
All the impossible
I wanna do
I wanna hold you close
Under the rain
I wanna kiss your smile
And feel the pain
I know what's beautiful
Looking at you
In a world of lies
You are the truth
And baby
Everytime you touch me
I become a hero
I'll make you safe
No matter where you are
And bring you
Everything you ask for
Nothing is above me
I'm shining like a candle in the dark
When you tell me that you love me
I wanna make you see
Just what I was
Show you the loneliness
And what it does
You walked into my life
To stop my tears
Everything's easy now
I have you here
And baby
Everytime you touch me
I become a hero
I'll make you safe
No matter where you are
And bring you
Everything you ask for
Nothing is above me
I'm shining like a candle in the dark
When you tell me that you love me
In a world without you
I would always hunger
All I need is your love to make me stronger
And baby
Everytime you touch me
I become a hero
I'll make you safe
No matter where you are
And bring you
Everything you ask for
Nothing is above me
I'm shining like a candle in the dark
When you tell me that you love me
You love me
When you tell me that you love me
This is perhaps the first time that I've actually looked carefully at the lyrics, and now I understand why the woman was crying. It is a song about love. About strength. About living. About not having regrets. About needing. About pain. About joy. About happiness.
Yes, above all, it is about love.
It moves me to tears as it did to the woman.
posted by Grace at 11/12/2005 01:30:00 AM
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