<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="ydpd1416bd2xdj266r ydpd1416bd2x14z9mp ydpd1416bd2xat24cr ydpd1416bd2x1lziwak ydpd1416bd2x1vvkbs ydpd1416bd2x126k92a" style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><font>Falling In Love With A Song<br><br></font></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Falling in love with a song</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">is a lot like falling</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">in love with a person,<br><br></div></div><div class="ydpd1416bd2x14z9mp ydpd1416bd2xat24cr ydpd1416bd2x1lziwak ydpd1416bd2x1vvkbs ydpd1416bd2xtlvy1s ydpd1416bd2x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="font-family: inherit;">a romance that begins</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">when a certain song</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">catches your ear, often one</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">you’ve never heard of.<br><br></div></div><div class="ydpd1416bd2x14z9mp ydpd1416bd2xat24cr ydpd1416bd2x1lziwak ydpd1416bd2x1vvkbs ydpd1416bd2xtlvy1s ydpd1416bd2x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="font-family: inherit;">It may give you “new ears”</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">on the first hearing</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">or just the sense,</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><i>that was special.<br><br></i></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">You may chance to hear it again</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">a month, a year later.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">This time it’s like an old friend.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">You become aware</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">that on your earlier hearing</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">it seemed to prefigure</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">a new world.<br><br></div></div><div class="ydpd1416bd2x14z9mp ydpd1416bd2xat24cr ydpd1416bd2x1lziwak ydpd1416bd2x1vvkbs ydpd1416bd2xtlvy1s ydpd1416bd2x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="font-family: inherit;">It begins to haunt you.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">You look it up on YouTube.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">You search out the lyrics.<br><br></div></div><div class="ydpd1416bd2x14z9mp ydpd1416bd2xat24cr ydpd1416bd2x1lziwak ydpd1416bd2x1vvkbs ydpd1416bd2xtlvy1s ydpd1416bd2x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="font-family: inherit;">It’s always in your head,</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">having become </div><div style="font-family: inherit;">a welcome earworm.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">an elixir that’s making you </div><div style="font-family: inherit;">ever more alive!<br><br></div></div><div class="ydpd1416bd2x14z9mp ydpd1416bd2xat24cr ydpd1416bd2x1lziwak ydpd1416bd2x1vvkbs ydpd1416bd2xtlvy1s ydpd1416bd2x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="font-family: inherit;">When you think of it</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">and sing a few lines aloud </div><div style="font-family: inherit;">you feel happy, like a long-lost</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">needed part of yourself</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">is being added back on.<br><br></div></div><div class="ydpd1416bd2x14z9mp ydpd1416bd2xat24cr ydpd1416bd2x1lziwak ydpd1416bd2x1vvkbs ydpd1416bd2xtlvy1s ydpd1416bd2x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="font-family: inherit;">You decide to learn</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">to sing and play it,</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">find the chords </div><div style="font-family: inherit;">and begin to literally </div><div style="font-family: inherit;">take it into yourself.<br><br></div></div><div class="ydpd1416bd2x14z9mp ydpd1416bd2xat24cr ydpd1416bd2x1lziwak ydpd1416bd2x1vvkbs ydpd1416bd2xtlvy1s ydpd1416bd2x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Your life becomes devoted</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">this previously unimaginable gift</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">that has entered your world </div><div style="font-family: inherit;">and made its limits </div><div style="font-family: inherit;">recede.<br><br></div></div><div class="ydpd1416bd2x14z9mp ydpd1416bd2xat24cr ydpd1416bd2x1lziwak ydpd1416bd2x1vvkbs ydpd1416bd2xtlvy1s ydpd1416bd2x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="font-family: inherit;">The song has become a part of you,</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">a solid, steady presence </div><div style="font-family: inherit;">of one of love’s sublime fragrances,</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">that you are now fully </div><div style="font-family: inherit;">empowered to share.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font>- Max Reif</div></div></div></body></html>