"I propose to you that we get married" - in movie and in song

I imagine I shall be hearing my own proposal for marriage someday. You know? That day of the week that hasn’t yet arrived? Until then, I have come across these two proposals and have found them pleasurable.

Earlier this year, one of my sis drew my attention to the lyrics of the Bob Marley song Is This Love. I’d heard it over and over, but, this time, I listened. Big chune. Wicked proposal. “I wanna love you and treat you right… I’m willing and able, So I throw my cards on your table.”

Then, the other day, I watched the movie How Do You Know (2010). Out of nowhere came this heart-felt, heart-tugging proposal. A refreshing spring of sweetness scripted off my…self. He gets her. I get it. They got me. I’m persnickety; I over-think and over-analyse (I'm a student of literature. It is what it is); considered anal (as in anal-retentive - as in too much attention to detail. Little wonder that it’s the third word in analyse); have been called a perfectionist – by my mechanic! And so on and so forth. I sometimes think some find it a turn-off. But, someday (guess that comes before Wednesday; not to be confused with gettn-some day, which would be, like, five days a week and twice on Sunday. Hallelujah!) I will be his over-thinker and...and he will love me anyway.

Is This Love

I wanna love you and treat you right

I wanna love you every day and every night

We'll be together with the roof right over our heads

We'll share the shelter of my single bed.

We'll share the same room, yeah, for Jah provide the bread.

Is this love - is this love - is this love -

Is this love that I'm feelin'?

Is this love - is this love - is this love -

Is this love that I'm feelin'?

I wanna know - wanna know - wanna know now.

I got to know - got to know - got to know now.

I-I-I-I-I I'm willing and able

So I throw my cards on your table.

I wanna love you - I wanna love and treat - love and treat you right

I wanna love you every day and every night

We'll be together, yeah, with a roof right over our heads

We'll share the shelter, yeah, oh yeah, of my single bed.

We'll share the same room, yeah, for Jah provides the bread.

Is this love - is this love - is this love -

Is this love that I'm feelin'?

Is this love - is this love - is this love -

Is this love that I'm feelin'? Wo-o-o-oah

 Oh yes, I know

Yes, I know,  yes I know now

Oh yes I know, yes I know, yes, I know now

I-I-I-I I'm willing and able

So I throw my cards on your table.

See I wanna love you, I wanna love and treat you -

love and treat you right.

I wanna love you every day and every night

We'll be together, with the roof right over our heads

We'll share the shelter of my single bed.

We'll share the same room, yeah, Jah provides the bread.

We’ll share the shelter of my single bed…

How Do You Know  (The Proposal)

Al: I gotta say something to you, to the two of you.  I don't want you to think that the reason that we're not married is because I think anything of anyone else. It's because I'm 40 years old and I'm a failure... The reason that I never talked marriage to you is because I couldn't stand to see you, the princess of worry, weighed down by me and my limited prospects. Because I get you worrying, Annie. I know that a lot of people think that's a bad thing about you, but I know that it's because you have a great big heart and I love you for it. And then, I started to worry... about what would happen to you and this little hulk. If you guys wound up with someone who thought that your worry was umm... you know [Annie: Neurotic.] Right. Yeah, somebody, you know, who didn't get you... Who wanted you to feel bad about yourself, wanted to make you be more normal of a person, or wanted you to change, or like yourself more. You know... who didn't love ALL of you. Who didn't wanna leave great enough alone. And I thought that I...I could do that for you. That could be a legitimate, umm, function for me... in your life. So that allows me, to propose to you that we get married. I want to marry you, Annie.

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