It's Me (And I'm Ready To Go)

The autumn leaves were falling,
On these old cathedral walls,
There were candles in the darkness,
Singing in the choir,
And reading out the names,
Of all the ones who've gone before,
Well I could tell that you were thinking,
About the meaning of it all;
And you said to me
"Who will open up my eyes,
To the wonder, and the glory,
and the stars in the sky?"
And you said to me
"For this road I'm traveling on,
I need someone beside me forever,
who? Who?"

And I said
"It's me, and I'm ready to go,
Ready to show, that I'll never let you down,
And I want you to know, that this power will grow,
Every day, every beat of my heart,
Forever, forever"

We went down to the river,
And we found a small cafe,
They say that over in the corner,
Sat the writer Ernest Hemingway,
And here he made his story of the lovers in the war,
And through it all they stayed together,
Till the rain had to fall;
And you said to me
"Who will be the one apart,
Who will teach me, with conviction,
all the ways of the heart?"
And you said to me
"On this journey of my life,
I need someone to love me forever,
who? Who?"

And I said, listen
"It's me, and I'm ready to go,
Ready to show, that I'll never let you down,
And I want you to know, that this power will grow,
Every day, every beat of my heart,
I love you, I love you;

It's me, and I'll never let you down,
And I want you to know, that this power will grow,
Every day, every beat of my heart,
Forever, I love you,
forever."

Chris De Burgh

Don't you love finding songs that could have been written by your heart?

This one is extra special to me because I have been a long-time fan of CdeB. In high school I haunted record stores looking for his albums, and I eventually collected everything he had done, but stopped in the late 80s after Lady in Red came out. I was looking up the lyrics for "Crying, Laughing" when I saw this title, released in 1997 so I had never heard of it. I was so happy to find a song that says unconditional love the way I wanted it to.