Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye – "When Love Arrives"
Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye – "When Love Arrives"
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Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye, performing at Inner City Arts in Los Angeles.
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I hope they’re a couple
This is beautiful
i ship
I revisited this after years and gosh it still makes me tear up.
Just a casual 18 year old girl who loves this poem….. ❤️
I’m going through a really tough breakup right now and this has probably been the first thing to give me hope for the future since it happened
You are beautiful!!
Mmh beautiful poem
"When love leaves, tell it to leave the door open behind it."
hard work…
Wow why am I crying oh my god?
2019 ❤❤❤
I cry.
"maybe love stays
maybe love can’t
maybe love shouldn’t"
"like an amateur magician; everyone could see the trap door, but me"
Sometimes Love Walkaway.
I really feel this one. As always, love you two
this poem will always make me feel happy about love. <3
This is what i need to hear right now
Beautiful<3
Love is beautiful
that "thank you for stopping by" line ripped my heart out of my chest and stomped on it DAMN
[Sarah & Phil]
I knew exactly what love looked like…
In seventh grade
[Sarah]
Even though I hadn’t met love yet
If love had wandered into my homeroom
I would have recognized him at first glance
Love wore a hemp necklace
[Phil]
I would have recognized her at first glance
Love wore a tight French braid
[Sarah]
Love played acoustic guitar
And knew all my favorite Beatles songs
[Phil]
Love wasn’t afraid to ride the bus with me
[Sarah & Phil]
And I knew
[Sarah]
I just must be searching the wrong classroom
[Phil]
Just must be checking the wrong hallways
She was there, I was sure of it
[Sarah]
If only I could find him
[Sarah & Phil]
But when love finally showed up
[Phil]
She had a bowl cut
[Sarah]
He wore the same clothes every day for a week
[Phil]
Love hated the bus
[Sarah]
Love didn’t know anything about the Beatles
[Sarah & Phil]
Instead
[Phil]
Every time I tried to kiss love
[Sarah & Phil]
Our teeth got in the way
[Sarah]
Love became the reason I lied to my parents
[Phil]
"I’m going to… Ben’s house"
[Sarah]
Love had terrible rhythm on the dance floor
But made sure we never missed a slow song
[Phil]
Love waited by the phone because she knew if her father picked up it would be
[Sarah (Phil)]
"Hello ?" (*Heavy breathing*)
"Hello ?" (*Heavy breathing*)
"I guess they hung up"
[Phil]
And love grew
[Sarah]
Stretched like a trampoline
[Phil]
Love changed
[Sarah]
Love disappeared… slowly
Like baby teeth, losing parts of me I thought I needed
[Phil]
Love vanished like an amateur magician
Everyone could see the trapdoor but me
[Sarah]
Like a flat tire
There were other places I had planned on going
[Sarah & Phil]
But my plans didn’t matter
[Sarah]
Love stayed away for years
And when love finally reappeared, I barely recognized him
[Phil]
Love smelled different now, had darker eyes
[Sarah]
A broader back
Love came with freckles I didn’t recognize
[Phil]
New birthmarks, a softer voice
[Sarah]
Now there were new sleeping patterns
[Phil]
New favorite books
[Sarah]
Love had songs that reminded him of someone else
[Phil]
Songs love didn’t like to listen to
[Sarah & Phil]
So did I…
[Phil]
But we found a park bench that fit us perfectly
[Sarah]
We found jokes that make us laugh
[Phil]
And now love makes me fresh homemade chocolate chip cookies
[Sarah]
But love will probably finish most of them for a midnight snack
[Phil]
Loves looks great in lingerie but still likes to wear her retainer
[Sarah]
Love is a terrible driver, but a great navigator
[Phil]
Love knows where she’s going
It just might take her two hours longer than she planned
[Sarah]
Love is messier now
[Phil]
Not as simple
[Sarah]
Love uses the word "boobs" in front of my parents
[Phil]
Love chews too loud
[Sarah]
Love leaves the cap off the toothpaste
[Phil]
Love uses smiley faces in her text messages
[Sarah]
And turns out
[Sarah & Phil]
Love shits!
[Sarah]
But love also cries
And love will tell you, "You are beautiful"
[Phil]
And mean it
[Sarah (Phil)]
Over and over again ("You are beautiful")
When you first wake up- ("You are beautiful")
When you’ve just been crying- ("You are beautiful")
When you don’t wanna hear it- ("You are beautiful")
When you don’t believe it- ("You are beautiful")
When nobody else will tell you, ("You are beautiful")
Love still thinks… ("…")
[Sarah]
You are beautiful
[Phil]
But love is not perfect and will sometimes forget
[Sarah]
When you need to hear it most
[Sarah & Phil]
You are beautiful
[Sarah]
Do not forget this
[Phil]
Love is not who you were expecting
Love is not what you can predict
[Sarah]
Maybe love is in New York City already asleep
You are in California, Australia, wide awake
Maybe love is always in the wrong timezone
[Phil]
Maybe love is not ready for you
Maybe you are not ready for love
[Sarah]
Maybe love just isn’t the marrying type
[Phil]
Maybe the next time you see love is twenty years after the divorce
Love looks older now, but just as beautiful as you remember
[Sarah]
Maybe love is only there for a month
[Phil]
Maybe love is there for every firework, every birthday party, every hospital visit
[Sarah]
Maybe love stays
[Phil]
Maybe love can’t
[Sarah & Phil]
Maybe love shouldn’t…
[Phil]
Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to
And love leaves exactly when love must
[Sarah]
When love arrives say,
[Sarah & Phil]
"Welcome, make yourself comfortable"
[Phil]
If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her
[Sarah]
Turn off the music, listen to the quiet
[Phil]
Whisper,
[Sarah & Phil]
"Thank you for stopping by"
I love this poem so much♥️
"Love shits"
Listenning to beautiful young people talking about Love.
Can a day get more depressing..
There comes a point where you just wish you’ll die before Love ever appears.
Better never than way too late.
I hadn’t a favorite poem until this… English isn’t even my mother language
Brilliant! Loved them.
I watched this a couple of years ago, and here I am again watching this. The amount of love I had for this has in no ways lessened, rather it increased. Now I watch this atleast once a day!:)
Yes
Beautifully presented..
i could listen to the “you are beautiful” section in a loop for a whole hour
i’m crying in the club
That last sentence got me…
May i just point out that both these artists are absolutely gorgeous❤️
One of the best thing I listened….the way you spoke was really good
"Thank you for stopping by" ♥
years later…still…goosebumps
Man fuck this life. Thats the last shit I needed to see. This is just fucking, big-ass "please, just hang yourself" for people like me.
First love sight
A beautiful poem. Thank u from Sana’a, Yemen.
Wowow man!!!! That was amazing.. What a beautiful definition of love…. I luv it
“…but my plans didn’t matter”
when love Arrives you do know what to do with it? and when feel it will show you way of friendship,hope,kindness and to wait
Waooooow. Gorgeous, a beautiful beautiful video, amazing!
"Thank you for stopping by"
Hai Button Poetry, can you please make the subtitle for this one?
Thank you 🙂