Songs to Fall in Love Again:
“This Must Bethe Place (Naive Melody)” —Talking Heads
“Into the Mystic” —Van Morrison
“Your Song” —Elton John
“Something” —The Beatles
“Let’s Stay Together” —Al Green
“Everywhere” —Fleetwood Mac
“I’ll Stand by You” —The Pretenders
“Crazy Love” —Poco
“I Can’t Make You Love Me” —Bonnie Raitt (for the times it doesn’t work out, but the love was real anyway)
Playthem when you’re ready.Or when you can’t sleep.
Or when you start wondering if maybe ...falling again doesn’t mean falling back.
It means falling forward.Falling with the new version of the person you used to love.I think that’s possible, which complicates my current state, but I’m hopeful.
ChapterOne Hundred Eleven
Private Message | EchoZone Internal Chat
From: DeadStrings
To: StringTheory27
Date: October 5th, 1997, 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: Can people fall in love again?
I read your message twice.
No—three times.
That last line stayed with me: falling again doesn’t mean falling back.It means falling forward.
I never thought about it like that.
The way I used to see it, love was a single arc.You meet, rise, fall—then it’s over.
Done.
What happens after the heartbreak is a post-script, not a second act.
But maybe that’s wrong.
Maybe love doesn’t follow arcs.Maybe it loops and stutters and learns how to walk again.
Maybe you can fall for the same person—but at a new stage.
A new version of them.
