(From Manifestation)
A personal note about the featured song this month.
Friends happens to be one of my wife Sandra’s favorite tracks on Manifestation.
Which is mildly amusing, given that it’s essentially a song about being gently but firmly reassigned to the emotional penalty box.
When I re-read the lyrics the other night, I had one of those moments where you think, “Wait a second… should I be worried?”
I asked her.
She laughed.
Turns out, she just likes the honesty of it. The way the song doesn’t fight the moment, doesn’t beg, doesn’t explode it just absorbs the absurdity of that phrase we’ve all heard, or feared hearing at some point: “I’ll always love you… only as a friend.”
After more than four decades together, I’m happy to report this song is purely fictional in our house. But it still makes her smile every time it comes on, and I’ll take that as a win.