Missing You

Every time I think of you
I always catch my breath
And I’m standing here, and you’re miles away
And I’m wondering why you left

And there’s a storm that’s raging
Through my frozen heart tonight

I hear your name in certain circles
And it always makes me smile
I spend my time thinking about you
And it’s almost driving me wild

And there’s a heart that’s breaking
Down this long distance line tonight

I ain’t missing you at all (missing you)
Since you’ve been gone away
I ain’t missing you (missing you)
No matter what I might say

There’s a message in the wire
And I’m sending you the signal tonight
You don’t know how desperate I’ve become
And it looks like I’m losing this fight
In your world our love has no meaning
Though I’m tryin’ hard to understand

And it’s my heart that’s breaking
Down this long distance line tonight

I ain’t missing you at all (missing you)
Since I’ve been gone away
I ain’t missing you (missing you)
No matter what my friends say

And there’s a message that I’m sending out
Via telegraph to your soul
And if I can’t bridge this distance
Stop this heartbreak overload

I ain’t missing you at all
Since you've been gone away
I ain’t missing you (missing you)
No matter what my friends say
I ain’t missing you (missing you)
I ain’t missing you (missing you)
I can’t lie to myself

And there’s a storm that’s raging
Through my frozen heart tonight
I ain’t missing you at all
I ain’t missing you

Every time I think of you
I always catch my breath

– “Missing You”
by John Waite, Mark Leonard and Charles Sandford
(as recorded by Tina Turner on her 1996 album,
Wildest Dreams)

NEXT:
Saaxiib Qurux Badan
– June 27, 2024

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Undeniably Real
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – March 1, 2024
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – February 21, 2024
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – February 7, 2024
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – December 8, 2023
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – December 3, 2023
• October Afternoon
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – October 1, 2023
• September Garden
• Like a Lotus Flower
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – June 4, 2023
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – February 14, 2023
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – January 16, 2023
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – August 25, 2022
• In the Stillness and Silence of This Present Moment
• I Need Do Nothing . . . I Am Open to the Living Light
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – November 25, 2021
• Blue Yonder
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – June 29, 2021
• What We Crave
• “So You Can Only See Beautiful Things”
• November Musings
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – November 18, 2020
• The Landscape Is a Mirror
• My Love, “Return to the Root of the Root of Your Own Soul”
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – April 16, 2019
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – March 29, 2019

Images: Saaxiib Qurux Badan (“Beautiful Friend”), Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A / Guruk, NSW, Australia – Michael J. Bayly (5/12/24).