not only is this my favorite love song (and one of my favorite songs to ever exist), but i feel like it depicts how love tends to find me/how i find it, see it, feel it, etc. the song is about literally meeting your soulmate in the parking lot of a grocery store. it envisions the future of the couple, and then returns to their initial meeting. firstly, i’m sort of a sucker for coincidental meetings - partially because i’ve met some of my very best friends this way. also, i am so quick to romanticize a person after meeting them for the first time (much like fjm imagining buying a mansion and having 7 daughters with this woman). in the song, this love seems all consuming, and i can relate to that as well (“if this isn’t true love, someone oughta put me in a home“). i’m a very sentimental and mushy person, and i tend to hold the people that i met completely by chance even closer. i don’t love people in rational amounts; life is too short for that. anyways, i just really love this song, and i think it is probably one of the most pure love songs of the 21st century.
