You Can’t Hurry Love

So I was looking through my drafts and found this post I had started, but never finished.

So I decided there was no time like the present.

So I saw this quote on twitter:

And it made me think of one of my favorite songs:

You Can’t Hurry Love by The Supremes

This is one of the best songs as the lyrics are fun, the music fantastic, and something everyone can relate to. We all want to find love.

Sometimes we get tired of waiting and try to rush it along, picking the wrong people.

And in the process can get our heart broken.

But as the song says, don’t give up and don’t hurry it along; the right person will come.

The song was written and released in 1966, surpsingly being based on You Can’t Hurry God (He’s Right on Time) by Dorothy Love Coates of The Original Gospel Harmonettes. It was number one for two weeks and have been recorded by Phil Collins, The Dixie Chicks, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and The Stray Cats.

It’s a great song and has been in many films.

I need love, love
Oh, ease my mind
And I need to find time
Someone to call mine

My mama said, “you can’t hurry love
No, you’ll just have to wait”
She said, “love don’t come easy
But it’s a game of give and take”
You can’t hurry love
No, you’ll just have to wait
Just trust in a good time
No matter how long it takes

How many heartaches must I stand
Before I find the love to let me live again
Right now the only thing that keeps me hanging on
When I feel my strength, ooh, it’s almost gone

I remember mama said, “you can’t hurry love

No, you’ll just have to wait”

She said, “love don’t come easy
It’s a game of give and take”
How long must I wait
How much more must I take
Before loneliness
Will cause my heart, heart to break

No, I can’t bear to live my life alone
I grow impatient for a love to call my own
But when I feel that i, I can’t go on
Well these precious words keep me hanging on

I remember mama said, “you can’t hurry love
No, you’ll just have to wait”
She said, “love don’t come easy
But it’s a game of give and take”
You can’t hurry love
No, you’ll just have to wait
Just trust in a good time
No matter how long it takes

Now wait
Now love, love don’t come easy
But I keep on waiting
Anticipating for that soft voice
To talk to me at night
For some tender arms
Hold me tight
I keep waiting
Ooh, till that day
But it ain’t easy (love don’t come easy)
No, you know it ain’t easy

My mama said you can’t hurry love
No, you’ll just have to wait
She said “love don’t come easy
But it’s a game of give and take”
You can’t hurry love
No, you’ll just have to wait
She said “love don’t come easy
But it’s a game of give and take”
You can’t hurry love, no you’ll just have to wait

Yep, don’t forget:

 

For more of my favorite songs, go to I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)

For more on You Can’t Hurry Love, go to I Just Haven’t Met You Yet

For more Jane Austen quotes, go to Cozy & Comfy Tea Time

For more Action Item lyrics, go to Good or Bad

For more J. K. Rowling quotes, go to The Darcy Monologues: Part I, The Regency

A Tender Toll-Booth Token: While You Were Sleeping (1995)

Romantic Moment #3

While You Were Sleeping (1995)

Lucy (Sandra Bullock) works at a toll booth collecting tokens for the Chicago Transit Authority. Everyday she watches people come and go, developing a crush on Peter (Peter Gallagher), who in my opinion is not attractive at all but whatever. Anyways, everyday seems to be the same, boring thing.

One day while she is working, Peter passes, as usual, but is mugged, knocked out, and left out on the train tracks. Lucy sees a train coming and manages to use all her strength and wit to roll him out of harm’s way. After she calls an ambulance she goes down to the hospital as well to see how he’s doing. When she gets there she talks to herself about how she would have liked to marry him and is subsequently mistaken to be Peter’s fiance. With Peter in a coma, the family reaches out to her to join them for Christmas.

At first she doesn’t tell the family as she is in embarrassed, and when she learns of the grandmother’s terrible heart condition it scares her into silence. As she spends more and more time with the family, she quickly grows to love them all and wants to be a part of their family.

She also meets Peter brother Jack, played by the very handsome Bill Pullman. At first he doesn’t believe that Peter would be dating Lucy as she seems too nice to be his type. Jack and Lucy start spending tons of time together and Jack finds himself falling for Lucy. Unbeknownst to Jack, Lucy finds herself falling for him as well…while engaged to his brother.

Peter wakes up from his coma and remembers everything…everything except having a fiancé named Lucy. Everyone thinks it is amnesia, with Lucy knowing the truth. This leaves Lucy in an even more tangled web.

********Most Romantic Moment********

So after Peter wakes up he decides to “move up” the wedding from never to immediately. Everyone rushes to prepare, but at the ceremony Lucy can’t go through it. She tells everyone the truth and how she fell in love with the family, not Peter. Peter’s ex-fiancé, who is still married (yikes), crashes the scene as well, airing all his dirty laundry. Lucy slips out and goes back to her old life.

Now the most romantic moment happens when Lucy is back to her old life. She’s at the toll booth, collecting tokens. Ho-hum, you know. When suddenly a diamond ring gets dropped through.

Jack went after Lucy to propose!

Perfect!

And he not only comes to propose, but brings the whole family with him. He knows how much she wants a family and decides to share this special moment of her life with them. This also shows her that the family holds no ill will for what happened before, but love her and want her to be a part of their family too.

Perfect!

To start Romance is in the Air: Part III from the beginning, go to I Can See Your Beauty: The Breakfast Club (1985)

For the previous post, go to Shall We Dance?: What Happens in Vegas (2008)

For more on While You Were Sleeping, go to 25 Films of Christmas