I kept hearing this song on the radio on the way to work or on the way home. I didn’t even know it was a Filipina singer who sang this song until I saw the video. Come to think of it, I didn’t even know Toni Gonzaga sang! She’s this girl who was really funny while trying to sound serious on Wazzup Wazzup. But she sings well. And the tune is catchy.

It’s not exactly LSS (last song syndrome) material, but it’s good. I hope, for her sake, that she’s not going to be a one-hit wonder.

The song, to me, is about how love can sometimes feel like something is forbidden. And how there is such a thing as forbidden love.

How can something so wrong/Feel so right/All along.

History abounds with stories such as these. Tristan and Isolde. Romeo and Juliet. Samson and Delilah. Lun Tha and Tuptim (of the King and I). Maria Clara and Ibarra (of Noli Mi Tangere). Kim and Chris (of Miss Saigon). It is almost an archetype: the star-crossed lovers. Everywhere you go, there is that story of a man and a woman, secretly in love, meeting in the dark; against their families’ expectations and the world’s judgments and opinions.

The archetypal story almost always ends in tragedy. One of the lover dies (or both of them). One is forced to sacrifice for his/her love. It seems like to give up the love is THE ultimate showcase of love. It seems like love is sacrificed so ORDER can come back in society. So that people can say that all is right with their world. The forbidden love is supposed to destroy the long-held order and the long-held tradition of people.

But we, the readers (if it’s a book) or moviegoers (if it’s a movie), know better. Love may have been sacrificed so that all can be right with the world again–as in the case of Romeo and Juliet, or Lun Tha and Tuptim–but love has a way of scarring us. Of forcing us to ask: did the families of Romeo and Juliet win when they killed themselves for their love? Did the King of Siam win when he punished Tuptim and vanished Lun Tha? Is everything really alright with the world? After what happened, is everything really back to normal? Does forbidding love really stop love?

When Morrie, in Tuesdays with Morrie, was asked: Who wins?
He said, simply, LOVE WINS.
Love always wins.

Because love will make you fall. But it is that very same love which will catch you in the end.

Catch Me I’m Falling
Toni Gonzaga
I don’t know why but when i look in your eyes
I feel something that seems so right
You’ve got yours i’ve got mine
I think i’m losing my mind
Coz i shouldn’t feel this way
Catch me i’m falling for you
And i don’t know what to do

How can something so wrong?
Feel so right all along
Catch me i’m falling for you

How can time be so wrong
For love to come along?
Catch me i’m falling for you

How can love let it go
When it has no place to go
And i can’t go along pretending
That love isn’t here to stay
Catch me i’m falling for you ooh ooh

If i could just walk away
Without you floating today
I would die just thinking of you
I know we can’t therefore be more friends you and me
But why do i feel this way

Catch me i’m falling for you
And i don’t know what to do

How can something so wrong?
Feel so right all along
Catch me i’m falling for you

How can time be so wrong
For love to come along?
Catch me i’m falling you

Maybe someday i’ll see why love did this to me
And i can’t go along pretending
That love isn’t here to stay
Catch me i’m falling for you
Catch me i’m falling for you

And it’s wrong for me to feel this way
Coz i don’t know what to do without you
I’m falling for you
Catch me i’m falling for you

How can something so wrong?
Feel so right all along
Catch me i’m falling for you