What about now?

"What About Now"

Shadows fill an empty heart
As love is fading,
From all the things that we are
But are not saying.
Can we see beyond the scars
And make it to the dawn?

Change the colors of the sky.
And open up to
The ways you made me feel alive,
The ways I loved you.
For all the things that never died,
To make it through the night,
Love will find you.

What about now?
What about today?
What if you're making me all that I was meant to be?
What if our love never went away?
What if it's lost behind words we could never find?
Baby, before it's too late,
What about now?

The sun is breaking in your eyes
To start a new day.
This broken heart can still survive
With a touch of your grace.
Shadows fade into the light.
I am by your side,
Where love will find you.

What about now?
What about today?
What if you're making me all that I was meant to be?
What if our love, it never went away?
What if it's lost behind words we could never find?
Baby, before it's too late,
What about now?

Now that we're here,
Now that we've come this far,
Just hold on.
There is nothing to fear,
For I am right beside you.
For all my life,
I am yours.

What about now?
What about today?
What if you're making me all that I was meant to be?
What if our love never went away?
What if it's lost behind words we could never find?

What about now?
What about today?
What if you're making me all that I was meant to be?
What if our love never went away?
What if it's lost behind words we could never find?
Baby, before it's too late,
Baby, before it's too late,
Baby, before it's too late,
What about now?

I think this song is about the trust in a relationship.
The big question is: what if?
I think the song is about a couple that's been in love for a long time, so long that both are already showing their true colors. However, because they've known each other for a long time simple but important words like "sorry", "I love you", "can I?", "would you?" are not considered a necessity anymore. They tend to forget that in truth the other person is still human, full of emotions and perceptions.
It is easy to trample on the hearts of the one you love just because you think they have to stand it, they have to endure it as they are indeed your true love and have to accept you no matter what, no questions asked [this is also true for family members..why is it easy to hurt the ones you love most? sad-but-oh-so-true kinda thing..huhuhu].
This creates a quiet tension. Hurt feelings are not spoken, but stored deep in the heart until it aches every time you breathe. The hurt spread like a cancer, slowly but surely fading the love until one day it all burst all at once, making feelings that was once there disappear. Just like that. Its like a big explosion and then a sudden deathly silence.
The love that was once great is just not there anymore because the other person is taking you for granted. The person often does not realize it because they do love you but is too selfish to take you in their consideration. They didn't realize they've lost you.
One fine day when they finally realize that you're gone, they're struggling to keep the love alive, trying to mend past mistakes because they know that if they let go, they will lose you forever.

What if our love, it never went away?
What if it's lost behind words we could never find?
Baby, before it's too late,
What about now?

Hope although frail, is hard to die.
So they'll struggle with all their might to save the relationship.
Eventually it all comes to this: you either want it or you don't.
If you do, then hold on. Hold on with all you have. Pray. Pray because things are always bigger than me and you, bigger than the world.

Now that we're here,
Now that we've come this far,
Just hold on.
There is nothing to fear,
For I am right beside you.
For all my life,
I am yours.

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Sometimes, after a relationship progresses to the next level the initial infatuation that blinds our judgment of a person often pass. We see the real person, we see them as who they really are.
At the same time we see the other person as who he/she is, we are also assessing ourselves.

Is he/she the right one?
Could this be for real?
Will we stand by her/him in facing life?
Would we have the drive to be with her/him in the future?

All this doubts occur in both parties. Both are assessing the other for the potential to make the person truly special in our life. This creates mixed emotions, doubts, distrust.
Not because they don't love you, it's just that in truth they are also trying to find the truth.
So my friend, be strong for the one you love. Love have to be tested to ensure its strength and purity. Hold on and trust the other person. Yeah, it is not easy. Not even remotely so. The situation is like you're falling into an endless abyss blindfold, hoping for all your heart that the one you love and trust would be there to catch your fall. They have to be there..because they're the reason you jumped in the first place. That is why we call it falling in love.
....thank God it's not called crash and burning into love...hehe :P