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Not Enough Hours On Valentines Day
I searched all over for a card
That said,
All of these things
That fill up my head.
I soon found the
Task way too tough,
It would seem there's
No card quite big enough.
There's just too much
That I need to say,
And not enough hours
On Valentines Day.
You mean so much
To me you see.
My spirits have never
Been so free.
I'm filled with joy
To see your face,
No one on this earth
Could take your place.
I'm finding my way
On this ol' dusty road,
And it's with you
I hope to grow old.
Our moments together
Are priceless you see,
Where ever I look
I see you and me.
I could ramble on
For days and days,
How do I love thee?
I can't count the ways.
No flowers or candy
Could ever express,
This desperate passion
I try to confess.
And now a question
My dear valentine,
Now and forever
Will you be mine?
-Jeff Gaines
(If I'm not anything else, I'm
stubborn. I've always had the credo that if I can't have
what I want, then I'll have nothing at all. On this
particular Valentine's Day, I was working a concert, as was
my girlfriend at the time. She too was a stage hand. After
the load-in, I had a ton of errands to run and then get back
for doors since I had a deck call for the show. One of my
errands, of course, was to find a Valentines card for her. I
looked in every store I could find and NOTHING was good
enough for me as I was truly crazy about this girl. So, when
I got back to the Ice Palace in downtown Tampa, I asked my
boss, Joey for a piece of paper and a pen. I folded it in
half, drew a rose inside of a heart on the outside of it and
right there backstage on one of the band's road case's, I
wrote this poem straight out on the inside of it. I gave it to her as I headed for the stage
just before the band
went on. When I read it now, it would seem that I was
hinting at marriage. Maybe I was was on a sub-conscious
level. Speculation is pointless now. I know it reads a bit
campy, whimsical even ... but it was directly from my heart
at that very moment in time. I needed to give her a
Valentine's Day card and there it was. No edits, no
re-writes ... that, to me, is the power in this piece.)
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