I Found Love

It’s Free Design Friday! Our second song in the ongoing series is “I Found Love.”

I invite you to read the lyrics as poetry.

I found love, didn’t even know I needed it
But I found love, never even crossed my mind
I found love, had a garden never weeded it
But I found love, took an apple just in time

I found love in the fall and it did not hurt at all
I found sunlight and flowers, soft summer showers
I can feel my heart touch my Adams apple
I can feel the feather in my head
There is a lightness, politeness, fingers tingle, tootsies tap
‘till dawn comes and finds me never in my bed

I found love, didn’t even know I needed it
But I found love, never even crossed my mind

I found love in the spring and I did not lose a thing
I found love in the fall and it did not hurt at all
I found sunlight and flowers, soft summer showers.
I can feel my heart touch my Adams apple
I can feel the feather in my head
There is a lightness, politeness, fingers tingle, tootsies tap
‘till dawn comes and finds me never in my bed

Had a garden never weeded it
But I found love
Took an apple just in time

I found love in this world and my heart strings just unfurled
I found love in the spring and I did not lose a thing
I found love in the fall and it did not hurt at all
I found love in this world and my heart strings just unfurled
I found love in the spring and I did not lose a thing.

1. My favorite lyric is “I can feel my heart touch my Adams apple,” followed closely by the rhythmic progression of the words “lightnes, politeness, fingers tingle, tootsies tap.”
2. Love can be measured in seasons.
3. The un-weeded garden totally represents pubic hair.
4. The word “unfurled” is only used in poetry/music to accomplish a rhyme. When is the last time you’ve heard the word in normal conversation?

I found a music video for the song created by a teenager. Yeah, it’s pretty bad, but endearingly so, hence it is worth a view. I’d like to think that if The Free Design were to have made a music video for this song, it would be exactly like this one.

Given the intro, it seems the star discovered Free Design via the Gilmore Girls soundtrack – who’d have guessed? I’m digging the drag costume and the lip-synching failing to match up to the song. The literal interpretation of the lyrics (embodied in this video by torn notebook paper) is charming: I’m particularly taken by the parts involving summer showers and having a feather in one’s head. Then the video gets all high-tech with the introduction of fake blood. And you assumed this video had no budget.

Tootsie tap to this song to your heart’s delight:
The Free Design - I Found Love