Mine

Do you know the song Mine by Taylor swift ? Well I have a love affair with this song, the more I listen to it, the more I think about it in terms of my partner and I so I thought I'd disect it on here for all to see. I've edited the bits that don't remind me of my partner and I. 
Lyrics are in Italic. 
You were in college, working part-time, waiting tables
Left a small town and never looked back
I was a flight risk, afraid of fallin'
Wondering why we bother with love, if it never lasts
 -When My partner and I met we were both attending a small town college (high school for any americans reading) I was actaully dating someone else... But that was kind of falling to bits. So I was a bit aprehensive of falling for anyone again.

Do you remember, we were sittin' there, by the water?
You put your arm around me for the fist time
You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
You are the best thing that's ever been mine
- The weekend my partner and I got to together we went to Kawhia (a really small beach town just a hour or so drive from where we lived). My friends and I did this often, my partner had never come with us before.  We went with two other guy mates who slept in the car, while my partner and I shared a tent. It was February, so the air had a chill to it but the days were still hot.  We stayed up all night talking, and the next day we sat on the jetty, fishing (the other two boys) drinking (all the boys) and sunning (me). He put his arm around me, and I fell hard. 

Flash forward, and we're takin' on the world together
And there's a drawer of my things at your place
You learn my secrets and figure out why I'm guarded
You say we'll never make my parents' mistakes
Three years later... I move in with him, in a big city especially compared to where we grew up. I had just worked for a year to get a big promotion in the university politics scene, and I gave it up for him. Our parents are both divorced, actually I don't even know who my real father is.  My partner lives in fear of divorce as do I, so we made an agreement to never let it happen. Even if we are miserable together if we are married we stay that way. 

But we got bills to pay
We got nothin' figured out
When it was hard to take
Yes, yes
All couples fight, mostly over money. We are not exception, of course, but ...when we fight I will stop sometimes and just turn to him and say 'I love you' cause it makes it all worth it. 

This is what I thought about:

Do you remember, we were sittin' there, by the water?
You put your arm around me for the fist time
You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
You are the best thing that's ever been mine


Do you remember all the city lights on the water?
You saw me start to believe for the first time
You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
You are the best thing that's ever been mine
When I decided to move to Auckland to be with him, I was walking along a path in Devonport to meet him, it was a fairly sunny day and the lights were playing on the water in the harbor. Then I saw him, I started to spend up and threw myself into his arms. Thats when I knew I was moving up. Because we have been seeing each other for so long and I still get butterflies, my heart still misses a beat when I see him, its like the honeymoon stage never ended. 

I can see it now