John Mark McMillan | 4 years ago
A Live / Acoustic version of "Chemicals" from my basement studio in Charlotte, NC.
“Everybody’s drilling for a fountain of youth, but sometimes in these fountains they drown”
I wrote this song during a time when so many of my friends were getting divorced. It’s not a response to a specific situation and certainly I’m not trying to offer any answers here. It’s a prayer.
I will say that over the years I’ve come to believe that the chemicals of love are not, at all, irrelevant, but unless you build a home around them, they tend to find other places to live. The “in-love” phenomenon is intoxicating. I’d hate to live in a world without it, but at the end of the day the “in-love” experience is little more than an invitation into actual love. That’s not a thing you fall into, as much as it’s a thing you build. Don’t get me wrong, the falling-in part is exhilarating, but the joy that evolves over the years from giving yourself to the other part is unparalleled IMO.
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