Love: A Costly Thing

Over and over again the Alfa Romeo "commercial" appears on the TV screen and I hear the wonderful music that accompanies it.  I am carried away into a state of ecstatic enchantment--not by the magnificent Alfa Romeo automobiles sliding around on ice--but by the beauty of the music that seems to reach into the very depths of my being. I don't know why this particular music moves me so.  I don't know why it almost brings me to tears.  All I know is that it has a powerful effect on my spirit, my soul, or whatever.  You have probably seen this commercial and I wonder if the music affects you the same way it affects me.

The music accompanying the two, red,  skating, sliding,  gliding  Alfa Romeo autos on an ice rink is  "Wicked Game" by Ursine Vulpine and features Annaca (whatever that means).  It can be downloaded from iTunes (which I have done).  For the last week or so I have listened to it almost every morning trying to figure out what it is about this music that moves me so. Is it just the music itself? Is it the lyrics? Is it both?

 "I never dreamed I'd meet somebody like you

And I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you

No I don't want to fall in love

No I don't want to fall in love with you."

The song was written by Chris Isaak back in 1989.  I don’t recall ever hearing it back then.   Somewhere I read that it was used in a Jaguar automobile commercial in the U.K. and Australia a few years ago, and that it was also featured in a David Lynch film "Wild at Heart" in 1990.  But I do not recall ever hearing either the music or the lyrics until the Alfa Romero commercial began in December last year.

I think both the music and the lyrics (primarily the refrain) speak of the burden and the joy of loving.  I am not referring necessarily to romantic love, but to love in general.  We have all loved somebody. We never dreamed we would meet somebody like that particular person, never dreamed we could ever love anyone so much.  Then, we lose that person (in whatever way)—never dreaming that we would or could ever lose somebody we loved so much.  But it happens, and when it happens there is that within us that says, “No I don’t want to fall in love” anymore.  I don’t want to bear the struggle, hurt, the loss, or the pain that love brings—and sometimes having once loved—prevents us from loving again.  Maybe that is what the music and the lyrics say to me—Love is not a cheap throw-away.  Love is a costly thing that we often do not want to buy into because it has been so expensive for us in the past.

Love is not cheap.  It takes everything that is within you.
Listening to one another is the first step.