Love Instructors

Love instructors...

IN music we have had many different artists whom I would call "love instructors".

What they did was tell you in their songs HOW to love and go about your relationships and how you were to treat your lover. They laid it out for you with each lyric; it was conversational.

Some love instructors I know of have been artists like Jill Scott, India.Arie, Al Green, Stevie Wonder (in some instances), Aretha Franklin, and that's all I can think of at the moment.

Now I will post lyrics from a song that India.Arie and Blu Miller wrote entitled 'Ready For Love'



I am ready for love.
Why are you hiding from me?
I'd quickly give my freedom to be held in your captivity.

I am ready for love.
All of the joy and the pain.
And all the time that it takes just to stay in your good grace.

Lately I've been thinking maybe you're not ready for me.
Maybe you think I need to learn maturity.
They say, "Watch what you ask for, cause you might receive."
But if you ask me tomorrow, I'll say the same thing.

I am ready for love.
Would you please lend me your ear?
I promise I won't complain.
I just need you to acknowledge I am here.

If you give me half a chance
I'll prove this to you.
I will be patient, kind, faithful and true
to a man who loves music
a man who loves art
respects the spirit world and thinks with his heart.

I am ready for love
If you'll take me in your hands.
I will learn what you teach
and do the best that I can.

I am ready for love
Here with an offering of my voice
my eyes, my soul, my mind
tell me what is enough
to prove I am ready for love.

I am ready.