Uncle John

I was watching my John Mayer DVD and he told a story just before he played Love Song for No One which I found really interesting, here it is:

So I was thinking about relationships as it pertains to songs about relationships and I figured out the key to all relationships, and how to make it work, check it out. This is a tip from your Uncle John.

When you first meet somebody, you find out they like you first of all; you know, friend of a friend of theirs come up with the old “Hey, she really really likes you!” and it kills you, floors you, sends you to the ground!

Then you get their number and you call them, right? And you say “Yeah…hmmm….right…yeah, that was a great phone conversation! Can I see you sometime?” and they say this, they say “…I’d like that” I’D LIKE THAT they say! Now that sends you back to the floor again. There’s nothing more exhilarating then “I’d like that” Now you cant sleep, you keep dancing around, because of “I’d like that”!

So then you hang our for a while, you know, you call her and talk on the phone all the time. Then one day you drop what feels like the bomb, you say “You know what? I’ve been thinking about you lately” and she goes “*gasp!*” and you go “what?” and she goes “Sorry! It's just that I’ve just been thinking about you too!” BAM! Higher in the sky, you’re feeling 6 feet off the ground!

You’ve gone through “I’d like that” to “I’m thinking of you” Months pass, and then it happens! One of you goes “You know what? I love you” and nothing in the world is better then “I love you”! Then maybe she starts crying or if it’s a he then he goes “*gasp*” and all of a sudden you’re like “Yeah! Im in!”

Now you’ve passed “I’d like that” and “I’ve been thinking about you” and now you’re at “I love you”. Then comes things like “I love you more then anything!” but the threshold keeps going! “I love you more then life!” faster and faster! “I love you more then MY life!” higher and higher! “I want to marry you!” more and more! “I want to impregnate you with my love!” then comes “…DAMIT! WORDS DON’T WORK ANYMORE!” and then comes this line, and you know you’ve used it before “I wish they put a new word in the dictionary cause LOVE DOSENT WORK ANYMORE!!!”

Then you cross the really interesting point where all of a sudden it becomes “I hate you” and you go “Oh no! she hates me!” and she goes “I hate you more then anything!” then comes “We’re over!” “No we’re not!” “Yes we are!” And there, right there, is where words just have no meaning for you, words cannot do anything anymore. You’re left with nothing, like throwing punches underwater, you’re done.

You know what the moral of that story is? Never ever EVER EVER underestimate the power of “…I’d like that”