Bleeding Love.

I often will get scraps of songs stuck in my head on repeat. If it is a song I don't know I've found that it helps to look up the lyrics and read through them. For some reason it stops the track from playing on repeat.

Today I had a few lines of a song stuck in my head. I recognized it as a popular refrain but I had never really heard the song. I googled the words that were replaying over and over and found that it was the song Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis. Curious, I read the lyrics.

Wow.

Ok, as a love song from a girl to a guy it is decent but as I read the lyrics I found my heart repeating these words to the One who caused my dead heart to beat again and my unseeing eyes to look on Beauty.

I've been accused of reading into things too much. I smile quietly at such accusations. I don't think I read into things too much, I just read them with a different lens at times.

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Closed off from love I didn't need the pain
Once or twice was enough and it was all in vain
Time starts to pass before you know it you're frozen

But something happened for the very first time with you
My heart melted into the ground - found something true
And everyone's looking 'round thinking I'm going crazy

But I don't care what they say I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away but they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein that I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open

Trying hard not to hear but they talk so loud
Their piercing sounds fill my ears try to fill me with doubt
Yet I know that their goal is to keep me from falling

But nothing's greater than the rush that comes with your embrace
And in this world of loneliness I see your face
Yet everyone around me thinks that I'm going crazy
Maybe, maybe

But I don't care what they say I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away but they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein that I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open

And it's draining all of me - oh they find it hard to believe
I'll be wearing these scars for everyone to see

I don't care what they say I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away but they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein that I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open and I Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love

--Leona Lewis