Une Belle Chose

Talib Kweli has to have the realest song I've heard about love. His song "Love Language" , from the album Reflection Eternal has to be the best description of the dynamics in love and the relationshisp between a woman and man, which isn't always easy to express with words. The hook is sung by Les Nubians in French. It's beautiful and made me regret not continuing French in college. French is such a romantic and sexy language. So I thought I'd share it with the blogger heads.

L'amour n'a pas de, frontiere
Restes car je t'aime comme tu es
J'ai traverse l'ocean du verbe
Et je t'ai trouve

English Translation:
(Love has no boundaries
Stay because I love you as you are.
I've crossed an ocean of words
and I found you.)

Here's the whole song...Let me know what you think

Yo, we're going to have the word love
in many different languages translated all through the track
So, whenever you hear the word love
Know that, it's going to be in a different language
The language of love cannot be translated, yo

Love is blind, you just see bright light
You up in the club feelin' the night life, lookin' for the right type
Blood rushing to your heart making it beat
When she swept you off your feet and made it complete
You know the plan you had to conquer the world
Thinking you Scarface, looking for that perfect girl
And now you found her
Started with romantic, then got to frantic
Then things thats normally small become gigantic
Now y'all sinkin like the Titanic here come the panic
Bein with you like a habit without you I can't stand it
It's tragic when you wonder when you lost that magic
Without understanding that you never had it try to grab it
In the bed gettin a nut off, communication cut off
Getting mad cause you turned on wondering where she shut off
Constantly comparing you to someone in my past
We don't smile anymore, and we argue over cash
Advance to that physical shit
See what happens if you keep talkin
See what happens if you lay a finger on me motherf...
Yo, see what I'm sayin'
It's like one big mind game that everybody playin and
Niggas say bitches is trife, bitches say niggas is
We just don't understand our fundamental differences
I'm still learning though, actually
I just do what come naturally, naturally, naturally

(Chorus):
L'amour n'a pas de, frontiere (Love has no boundaries)
Restes car je t'aime comme tu es (Stay because I love you as you are)
J'ai traverse l'ocean du verbe (I crossed an ocean of words)
Et je t'ai trouve (And I found you)

[Talib Kweli]
Women thrive on emotions, men refuse to acknowledge
So when we arguin nobody win
Words get in the way time and again
Sticks and stones break your bones words break your heart
Whether you in touch with that part or not say "word"
Words are weapons for the revolutionary
Used for evil make the situation very scary
Word up, but love is brave
It flies in the face of fear
Yo, wherever you want to go love'll take you there
Let's go, you know a flower that grow in the ghetto
Know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows
It got love for the sun, that's where I'm comin from
Spit in this fashion cause I love rockin over drums
Word (te quiero) I put my love into my music
If you with me then you love how I do it
If my heart you're livin' in your ocean I'm swimmin' in
Never drowning got me floatin' watching you in slow motion
Love potion overdosin approachin
The explosion of my senses everyday without your heart
is like a sentence in jail
Trust I'll always be mentally free
You got the key to let it out I'll show you how it could be
Love {*different language*} it ain't nuttin but a word
A chicken ain't nuttin but a bird
Yo, yo, yo

(Chorus):
L'amour n'a pas de, frontiere (Love has no boundaries)
Restes car je t'aime comme tu es (Stay because I love you as you are)
J'ai traverse l'ocean du verbe (I crossed an ocean of words)
Et je t'ai trouve (And I found you)

[Talib Kweli]
Some of y'all in love with that material but
love enter my life like a miracle and
It reciprocal that's why I'm feeling you love
We exibit our natural behavior
Like making love under the moon in Jamaica
Get you so hot you call the name of the creata
The morning we hop back into action again
Up on the wall lovin how the sun blacken your skin
Remember when we explored the beach
Swam in the ocean and saw beneith
How the colors of the coral reef looked like the illest floral peice
That's what your beauty remind me of
It's hard to find a love like ours, taking it high above
Them other duns try to spit game but, I dont sweat it though
Know in my heart that we connected so I let it go
Now if they call you out your name and that's a different thing
Anything but Queen I'll go to war like a King
Your friends sweat you cause you aint got a band
But they dont understand
Some things is meant to stay between a woman and man
And they ain't privy to it so they try to get into it
Both you and me see through it so the way we flow is fluid
We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish
Some don't love theyselves so they perception is tainted
Out they joint like "Shit, he payin for your rent" missin the point
When you rub me into your skin just like an ointment
It's more than pillow talk, it can't be translated
Learn how to speak it, and become emancipated
It's a language

Universal love...

(Chorus):
L'amour n'a pas de, frontiere (Love has no boundaries)
Restes car je t'aime comme tu es (Stay because I love you as you are)
J'ai traverse l'ocean du verbe (I crossed an ocean of words)
Et je t'ai trouve (And I found you)

Love love love love, love, love (Repeated)

My Quote For the Day

Sitting under the hair dryer, this came to mind:

"Plagued by the history of broken hearts past, I am afraid to engulf myself in the mystery that is you."

Pretty profound....

"He's Different"....

What is it that causes women, when entering a new relationship, to say variations of the grave phrase "But he's different..." Scarred by some previous failed relationships in which you were underappreciated, treated like a dude, verbally abused, etc,..you want to marry the next man who holds the door for you at the supermarket.

I was just having this conversation with my girl Yjarvoe this weekend. We are all so quick to say "He's different" in the first days or weeks of meeting someone new. If you think back to the beginning stages of those failed relationships, you will realize that Jerk number 1,2, or 3 was" different" too. He was actually trying to win you over at that time. The problem is he got too darn comfortable when he got you and started acting a fool. I've been guilty of this hurried assumption and crushed when Mr. Different changed into Dr. Jerk.

Dudes are like a highschool basketball player, who surpasses the necessity of college basketball only to stink it up in the NBA. They put all of the emphasis on the preparation of fufilling, what I'm sure is a lifetime goal, of being drafted into the NBA. They failed to realize that there was more work needed to actually succeed in the NBA. They got complacent. BIG mistake. In the same way, there is work that goes into keeping a woman beyond winning her interest--if keeping her is what he wants. And ladies, if he actually does this, he just might be, different.