Can't Stop Loving You
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Well, there’s a hello and
there’s a goodbye. People come and go in our lives. They said hello toward us
and eventually will say goodbye. However, there are some people in our lives
who said hello, but never actually say goodbye to us. They come, but never
actually leave. Perhaps a goodbye always means separation, yet separation
doesn’t always mean they’re gone, like forever. People may leave, but somehow
the feeling will remain. Most women feel that. Even men feel that too. Even at
times, a man could be more melancholy than a woman when it comes to a goodbye.
They might be looked just fine on the outside, yet they’re devastated in the
inside. As today’s song for Male Special
Part 2: Ways of Being A Man, here is the song about the feeling of a man
who faces a goodbye with his beloved one: “Can’t Stop Loving You” by Phil
Collins. For there’s no goodbye that’s not painful, even for the toughest man
in the world, indeed.
“So you’re leaving in the morning
on the early train. I could say everything’s alright, and I could pretend and
say goodbye. Got your ticket, got your suitcase, got your leaving smile. I
could say that’s the way it goes, and I could pretend, and you won’t know that
I was lying.” –Phil Collins, Can’t
Stop Loving You
Released on October 28th
2002, “Can’t Stop Loving You” was served as the lead single taken from the
seventh solo studio album of English singer Phil Collins, “Testify”. The
album is the final album to feature original material by Collins, before
retiring in 2011. The song is a cover of Leo Sayer’s 1978 hit titled “I
Can’t Stop Loving You (Though I Try)”.
There’s no goodbye that’s
not painful. Most of all, when we have to say goodbye towards the person we
hold most dear. Even when we know that we have to say goodbye for the sake of
that person’s good, still it’s hard to do. Lyrically, “Can’t Stop Loving You”
is a song about saying that goodbye,
from the perspective of the person who is being left behind; the person who
have to let go. I’ve let go so many times before, yet it was never easy to do
it in the next time. “So you’re leaving
in the morning on the early train. I could say everything’s alright, and I
could pretend and say goodbye. Got your ticket, got your suitcase, got your
leaving smile. I could say that’s the way it goes, and I could pretend, and you
won’t know that I was lying.” The art of letting go is never easy, I always
say that. Probably you’ve got bored of that sentence already, but that’s true,
so I keep saying it. We fake smiles, we force a laugh, and we try so hard to
steady our voices, so that it won’t break, so that the tears won’t stream down,
so that we won’t crumble apart.
“We took a taxi to the station, not a word was said.
And I saw you walk across the road for maybe the last time, I don’t know.
Feeling humble, I heard a rumble on the railway track. And when I hear that
whistle blow, I’ll walk away and you won’t know, that I’ll be crying.” At times, separation doesn’t change anything
regarding to feeling. No matter how hard we try to keep it together, eventually
we will crumble apart after that person leaves. Until we meet again; those
words are hopeful yet painful at the same time, because we never know when that
time will come. However, still, we can’t help but keeping the feeling.
Separation doesn’t change anything when it comes to love. “Cause I can’t stop loving you. No I can’t stop loving you. No I won’t
stop loving you. Why should I even try?” For the person who is being left
behind, there is nothing left but waiting. We keep on waiting while longing,
longing while waiting, all over again. “I’ll
always be here by your side. I never wanted to say goodbye. I’m always here if
you change your mind.”
“Can’t Stop Loving You” was
written by Billy Nicholls. Collins re-arranged it into a pop rock track for his
version. The song received commercial success. The youngster generation even
knows this song as an originally Collins’, including me. I’ve just known that
this song is a remake after digging some information for this post. What a
generation gap.
“We took a taxi to the station,
not a word was said. And I saw you walk across the road for maybe the last
time, I don’t know. Feeling humble, I heard a rumble on the railway track. And
when I hear that whistle blow, I’ll walk away and you won’t know, that I’ll be
crying.” –Phil Collins, Can’t
Stop Loving You
“So you’re leaving in the
morning on the early train
I could say everything’s
alright, and I could pretend and say goodbye
Got your ticket, got your
suitcase, got your leaving smile
I could say that’s the way
it goes, and I could pretend, and you won’t know that I was lying
‘Cause I can’t stop loving
you, no I can’t stop loving you
No I won’t stop loving you,
why should I?
We took a taxi to the
station, not a word was said
And I saw you walk across
the road for maybe the last time, I don’t know
Feeling humble, I heard a
rumble on the railway track
And when I hear that whistle
blow, I’ll walk away and you won’t know, that I’ll be crying
Even try, I’ll always be
here by your side
Why, why, why, I never
wanted to say goodbye
Why even try, I’m always
here if you change, change your mind
So you 're leaving in the
morning on the early train
I could say everything’s
alright, and I could pretend and say goodbye, but that would be lying
Cause I can’t stop loving
you, no I can’t stop loving you
No I won’t stop loving you,
why should I even try?”
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