No Such Thing

No Such Thing, Sara Bareilles

Lyrics

I feel you, it's like you're in the next room
At any given moment, you could reappear
Thin air, you're out there in it somewhere
If I could only get there, I could breathe again

Tell me how to start
What comes after you?
I am in the dark
Love what now?

No such thing as over you
I don't want it anyway
I wouldn't even try to
If I don't let go, then there is
No such thing as over this
I've tried to get over you, over you, over you
But I think there's no such thing

I started listening to this song last week. Apparently it is about Barack Obama, but also clearly a post break up song. I haven't had a break up. I'm not hung up on a man, but this song has been speaking to my soul. I belt it out in the car, or I sing along in my head while working out at the gym. 

Like I said, I am not pining away for any specific man, but over the past 8 years I've spend thousands of little moments wondering if the feeling of loving a once upon a time specific man will ever return. "No such thing as over you", in this case, "you" is loving someone. I'll never get over how it felt. It's as if "you" really could be in the next room, appear out of thin air, and sometimes I miss the feeling, and it really is hard to breathe. And she's right, I don't really want to get over "you", because then there would be no hope that I'll feel it again some day.