Pretty Wings

Maxwell's Song (Pretty Wings) is pure beauty from a man's heart written onto paper, turned into music. I first heard this song just yesterday ( I know I'm late but for good reason). I don't listen to the radio much so when I hear new music it's usually through a friend who has it on a bootlegged CD of some kind or surfing the net. I was sitting in my friends car as she drove myself and my son home. This song came on, she said it was her Shit so she turned it up. I listened and asked who it was, after the first verse I knew I loved this song. When she said it was Maxwell I was excited to know that he was back (then realized I missed his concert here in Nov...ugh)! As Soon as I got home I downloaded the song and listened to it over and over again just feeling the power this song held for me. To hear a song of a man ADMITTING that someone else could be loving you better than him was just a beautiful pain. Nowadays, men; R&B singers don't sing about whats real in their heart anymore. It's all that new age R&B "Shorty this and Shorty that" Mostly all of that teenage love crap!

I agree that there are still few who sing songs about loving women such as Tyrese or Trey Songz to name a couple. But rarely do you hear a man cry (Like Lennie Williams) Anymore. Not that all a man should do on an R&B song is cry, but I think you know what I mean! I read the lyrics of this song and one part that js touches me is when he says : "I SHOULD HAVE SHOWED YOU, BETTER NIGHTS, BETTER TIMES, BETTER DAYS, NOW I MISS YOU MORE AND MORE" That sentence there was the best that could be said, easily explained. Men often do not realize the bullshit they put us through. The little things that would make us happy, like just being BETTER. Like he also said: "I TURNED DAY INTO NIGHT" That was such a big point made in a small sentence. All we want is to be loved, to have love and a man who will do his best to make sure we make the best out of each other. Not someone who will take our SUNSHINE in their hands and crush all light we have in our heart only to keep us stuck in their evil world of something they call love. I have felt this all too much
the need of a man to condstantly say he loves you but does nothing to prove his words. This song may be just a simple song by a talented artist but I read into it more because I know of HIM...this man who will apologize: " I CAME WRONG, YOU WERE RIGHT, TRANSFORMED YOUR LOVE INTO LIGHT, BABY BELIEVE ME, I'M SORRY I TOLD YOU LIES" Well now...that sounds familiar. I remember an ex who told me that I shouldn't love him, that he wish I didn't love him because he couldn't give me the love I wanted and someone else deserves to love me better. And when Maxwell said: "LET LOVE SET YOU, FREE TO FLY YOUR PRETTY WINGS" I CRIED. I have heard that and didn't want to but in reality by leaving me, he was doing what was best for us both! A HEART can be broken many times......and fixed just as many times as it was broken. The pain of it all is the healing process, the scars one love will leave behind and the scars the rest will overlap. No matter who hears this song, Man or Woman, someone will connect to it and compare its meaning to the meaning of love won or lost in their hearts.

I'm not a compassionate person....however my excuse is I have never had campassion towards me so one cannot feel what they cannot see or have not witnessed. The lyric: "BUT I WILL NOT SEE WHAT I CANNOT HAVE FOREVER" SAYS IT ALL. If you are unfamiliar with love, or loves counterparts then how will you know what it is when it comes your way? I think I had love once, I think he was love to me but a Frozen Heart Can't feel Warmth. In the "relationships" I have had there are none that I regret. Each one, no matter how long or extremely short it was (such as a One night stand) taught me something. They have shown me what is good, what is bad, what was wasted, what could have been and what should not have been. Lessons I can never forget. Yet When and Where will love come? When Will men quit sayin "I should have showed you this and that and now I miss you more and more?" It's always when you've parted ways that you realize what you had. As one of my followers on twitter (@MissMillions) Wrote.."An EX is and EXperience." How true....but how many experiences must we go through in love before we find the one that makes all the EXperience worth it?

As a teen I never dreamed of being married and having a family. I saw my family and there was no way I wanted that. But to see the woman I have grown to be and know the love I have in my heart to give, its dissapointing that I let years go by of not even trying to build a relationship but tear it down! Now maybe it's KARMA or js bad timing that Love is no where near my side, I don't think we even live in the same Country. At Almost 27 years old (in July) I have yet to find someone to come home to. A man who I can love and recieve love. A relationship is overrated I know, it is not great all the time. But what makes life amazing is the Challenges we go through in life. The ups and Downs, the good and the bad and in the end what still remains is LOVE.

There are three songs that make me tear up just hearing them: Tamia's "LOVE", Adele's "FIRST LOVE" and now Maxwell's "PRETTY WINGS" and what sucks is that I was never this way. Never emotional for love. Never had it in my family, never had it in general so it amazes me how I can want something so bad I have never Experienced or even knew exsisted. It may be unheard of to hear someone say they have never experienced love but its true. The only man to ever give me 100% love is my almost 7year old SON. But his love his a mother's love, the greatest love felt, it's different love than the love I seek now. The Ice in me is slowly melting and the Human Being underneath is FINALLY having it's time to live. As the first line of Tamia's song state: "I AM READY FOR LOVE" and yet I think it's too late. I guess it's too much to ask for a lil LOVE so I'll let him "Set me Free, Away from him, To see the way that love can be, When I'm not with him.................And I can be free to fly my Pretty Wings"
(Hmp, I guess)