need you now

I hate to say it, but every time I am listening to the radio in my car -- that doesn't have a CD player -- I hear that song by Lady Antebellum, "Need You Now", and I actually like it. It's not a song that will go down in my top 100 best songs ever written. That list is reserved for Patty Griffin, Neko Case, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Ryan Adams, Gillian Welch, and plenty of others that I love.  But there's a few of the lyrics in that song that tug at something in me that I just won't let go.  I guess the heart doesn't want to give up on something it feels is true, one day, if not now. Or else I'm a fool. Both, or neither, is possible, surely.

"Picture perfect memories scattered all around the floor,
Reachin' for the phone cause I can't fight it anymore,
And I wonder if I ever crossed your mind.
For me, it happens all the time.

Its a quarter after one, I'm all alone and I need you now.
Said I wouldn't call but I lost all control and I need you now.
And I don't know how I can do without.
I just need you now."

Now, what I relate to in the song is the memories of conversation, smiles, laughter, and how we have managed to keep it up over the phone from time to time. I was just thinking a little while ago about a conversation in June and it almost felt like that was just a few weeks ago. That was over 8 months ago! And yes, I know I think of this person quite often, but one cannot help but wonder if another thinks of them. It is nice to receive a message, sent with such person as if we were sitting across a table from each other, and it opens with I was just thinking of you...