andrea gibson, "maybe i need you"

andrea gibson reads "maybe i need you" at the release of "yellowbird" april 30, 2009

[@andriaskinner7477]

She writes and speaks about love as if she invented it

[@brenicole7650]

The most beautiful and accurate description ever

[@hccat3336]

I still come back to this. years later. it always touches me.

[@alondrachapa8639]

Today I cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door asked if I wanted to borrow some sugar.

[@rockleefan77]

"These dry autumn breezes, the stories they hold, I've got my reasons for feeling so old. My bodies aching for warmer days, it's not only the seasons that change, when I want them to stay." ^Man I love this.

[@munabed7241]

who breaks up with this flawless human?

[@suizilla]

no human is flawless. andrea actually has a poem about how one of their exes thought they were picking up a knife to kill her. the poem is called "July 13, 2013".

[@Mr704010400]

This is how you read out a poem. no unnecessary pathos. Real and hurting hard. Very good. Very good.

[@tulip2111]

i stumbled upon this....and afterwards, sat staring silently, my eyes glossy...so deeply moved. I was not expecting this poem to find me, but it did. And for that I am grateful.

[@cheekysheiky1000]

These dry autumn breezes the stories they hold And I've got my reasons for feeling so old it's not only the seasons that change when I want them to stay

[@My_Garmonbozia]

If this doesn't hurt you, then I don't know what will.

[@KayGirl216]

Makes my heart pound and tears stream every time.... Years later

[@GFEBMX]

i cry every time i listen to this just hits that spot

[@catholic-guilt]

Love isn't always magic, sometimes it's just...melting.

[@Maryam9028w]

I have loved this poem since the day it first came out. 14 years! ❤

[@aurum3432]

The winter I told you I think icicles are magic You stole an enormous icicle from a neighbor's shingle and gave it to me as a gift I kept it in my freezer for seven months Until the day I hurt my foot I needed something to reduce the swelling Love Isn't always magic Sometimes it's just Melting Or it's black and blue Where it hurts the most Last night I saw your ghost Pedaling a bicycle with a basket Towards a moon as full as my heavy head And I wanted nothing more Than to be sitting in that basket Like ET With my glowing heart glowing right through my chest And my glowing finger Pointing in the direction of our home Two years ago I said I never want to write our break up poem You built me a time capsule full of big league chew And promised To never burst my bubble I loved you From our first date at the batting cages When I missed 23 balls in a row And you looked at me Like I was a home run in the ninth inning of the world series Now every time I hear the word love I think going going The first week you were gone I kept seeing your hand wave goodbye Like a windshield wiper in a flooding car And the last real moment I believed the hurricane would let me out alive Yesterday I carved your name into the surface of an ice cube Then held it against my heart 'til it melted into my aching pores Today I cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door And asked if I wanted to borrow some sugar I told them I left my sweet tooth in your belly button Love Isn't always magic But if I offered my life to the magician If I told her to cut me in half So tonight I could come to you whole And ask for you back Would you listen For this dark alley love song For the winter we heated our home from the steam off our own bodies I wrote too many poems In a language I did not yet know how to speak But I know now It doesn't matter how well I say grace if I am sitting at a table where I am offering no bread to eat So this is my wheat field You can have every acre, love This is my garden song This is my fist fight With that bitter frost Tonight I begged another stage light To become that back alley street lamp that we danced beneath The night your warm mouth fell on my timid cheek As I sang Maybe I need you Off key But in tune Maybe I need you the way that big moon needs that open sea Maybe I didn't even know I was here 'til I saw you holding me Give me one room to come home to Give me the palm of your hand Every strand of my hair is a kite string And I have been blue in the face with your sky Crying a flood over Iowa So your mother will wake to Venice Lover, I smashed my glass slipper To build a stained glass window for every wall inside my chest Now my heart Is a pressed flower And a tattered Bible It is the one verse you can trust So I'm putting all of my words in the collection plate I am setting the table with bread and grace My knees are bent Like the corner of a page I am saving your place

[@babyfacemedusa2855]

I come here when I want to feel something real 🖤

[@TheKillerMel]

I love her voice in this, I love the passion, and honestly, this poem made me cry. Andrea Gibson already means so much to me. She's my ex's favorite poet. We went to see Andrea perform live at our dream college for our first date. I remember both me and her crying at all the same poems, I Do being my favorite. I loved that girl like no other and she made me to love Andrea Gibson. But I can really resonate with this poem since it's exactly everything I wanted to say to my ex.

[@shokola]

I've heard this yesterday, & I think I repeated it over 20 times... It touches me every time she says "maybe I need you" with that shiver in her voice... God, love... isn't always magic..

[@sonialuna1399]

the memory of us brings me here tonight wishing i could read to you this poem, to tell you i love you and always will.

[@pierreobrian8223]

she was so deep, i couldn't see her at one point

[@hannaharlindelacruz3995]

Never gets old. Still hurts. :'(

[@alligibson5350]

I can feel her heart, I am moved by her words. I love it.

[@gitsshiggles7601]

i LOVE her. Her words are so powerful.

[@karenbenson8291]

I want to be Andrea Gibson when I grow up

[@jowurst7858]

Maybe you should just aim to be the best version of you.

[@AlejandraEngelhardt]

fricking magician making words sound so damn pretty

[@TastingCreativeInk]

Andrea Gibson speaks the truth. Every word that comes from her mouth is so said so passionately that I can feel her emotions through y own body

[@janetheunthinkable]

That was heart breaking and beautiful. I would give anything in the world to feel as deeply and strongly as she does for another person.

[@RebeccasWell]

Careful what you wish for ... it's utter madness, it swallows you whole ... and when they leave ...

[@sonialuna1399]

Some just want to experience love, but it's not always rainbows and butterflies. It is sometimes hurt and sadness, and when done wrong leaves you broken and damage. Insane and alone. Some "love" for all the wrong reasons, to fill up a whole..does are the ones that love poorly and end up hurting others the most. If you are ok with the possibility of experiencing all these risk and more that come with finding love or even worse, you being the one to cause to another what Andrea has put in words, dive in. Just someone whose experience the good and bad from love.

[@ikki753]

+Naomi Mendez Yes. Even so, even when they leave and when you can't see any wound but it still hurts like nothing has ever hurt you before. Even when you spend years of slow, painful and incomplete recovery. Even when you're possibly changed for life and will never see your next relationships with the same sweet innocent eyes. Even after all this, it is still worth experiencing that kind of love at least once in your life. It's like Musset wrote : "Life is a sleep, love is a dream ; and you have lived if you have loved."

[@KayGirl216]

I can't tell you how many times I've listened/cried to this.

[@thislifewasledastray]

I keep trying to decide which of her poems I love the most and have come to the consensus that it is impossible, she is just too amazing. I am in love with her.

[@suizilla]

i first saw this december 2011 and it made me bawl. i still come back to it.

[@5musictomyears5]

This will always be one of my favorite poems

[@runnt]

There are absolutely NO words for this... wow.

[@sararoman3711]

Such power in her words

[@gabrielbelmonte1170]

That was incredibly beautiful and unexepcted

[@nvrstsfd]

beautiful. "Love isn;t always magic, sometimes it's just... melting" Wow. I love this

[@taylorgoesmoo333]

I am so in love with her work. It literally leaves me breathless, wanting more. You feel exactly what she is talking about.

[@brenicole7650]

The shake in her voice hits my heart

[@rysecalypso]

How do you say how good this was, people should speak like this more often, from the heart.

[@PainIs4ThaWeak85]

This one still makes me cry. Every. Single. Time. Your words... are beautiful.

[@beachbaby792]

I just keep watching this over and over and over and over. so much beauty in such real pain

[@DarKarsean]

love the poetry of her words - wonderful

[@tossintotomorrow]

Wow. I am so glad I found this video and Andrea in general. Beautiful. In every sense of the word...

[@localboy1987]

She's spectacular. My favorite poem of hers!

[@XDiLaughAtYou1]

This poem still gets me when I listen to it, several years later.

[@xxaliciajeanxx]

I get to see and meet Andrea on Saturday! So excited!!

[@jello504]

i cried....... like sobbing cried.. she touched my soul.

[@deanydeak925]

Honestly, she is an anthem... Gorgeous....!

[@wishyhafeez6258]

her work makes me so full of love it hurts. she makes me so full of love that I have to put myself to sleep so my lover doesn't drown as I quietly weep.

[@flowerpower612]

i fucking love you. from your voice to your tempo to the watercolor of words she speaks out of her mouth. she is the little voice inside my head. she is my mothers voice when i've came out of a coma. I LOVE YOU ANDREA

[@lwandorozani4942]

This lady could make anyone believe in love with her words.

[@patvanniy9170]

I come back to this poem every year and every break up...... it touches the very bottom of my heart

[@heathi51]

she is so wonderful

[@momikoi]

"These dry autumn breezes...the stories they hold...I've got my reasons for feeling so old. My body is aching for warmer days...it's not only the seasons that change when I want them to stay." So touching..

[@betch7809]

She gives me chills.

[@KBlocker29]

I don't have words that could accurately describe the greatness of this piece. Color me in love.

[@Leladancer18]

just...wow, i'm blown away. this lady is more than wonderful. :D

[@Opheliaccs]

can´t believe I had never heard of her until today. God her words and her passionate voice move me so much.

[@amyfoxhoward243]

Andrea you speak the words that were choked out of me

[@storiesinthesoil]

nothing has ever made me tear up so instantly and uncontrollably. so beautiful.

[@LesboSkittle90]

I absolutely love this woman. Her poems give me gooesbumps, the way she words things. The intricate ways that she lets herself get lost in her words makes me lose myself in her words.

[@AnahetaG]

Man, her voice is so soothing. Love it to pieces.

[@tspaige1]

that is so beautiful, she always knows how to make me cry

[@sadee322]

I love to listen to poetry and she truly delivers her message with her gift to speak the words without hesitation, it doesn't matter what the subject is, I hear it and sometimes I smile and sometimes I cry because each time I hear her she wakes me from inside and I know I'm fine being me.

[@briannayovino7252]

I am sitting here bawling my eyes out. Every word she spoke is amazing and exactly how I feel right now.

[@SonnyDali]

Maybe I Need You “ Maybe I Need You The winter I told you I think icicles are magic, you stole an enormous icicle from a neighbors shingle and gave it to me as a gift I kept it in my freezer for seven months until the day I hurt my foot and needed something to reduce the swelling Love isn’t always magic sometimes it’s just melting or it’s black and blue where it hurts the most Last night I saw your ghost pedalling a bicycle with a basket towards a moon as full as my heavy head and I wanted nothing more than to be sitting in that basket like ET with my glowing heart glowing right through my chest and my glowing finger pointing in the direction of our home Two years ago I said I never want to write our break up poem; you built me a time capsule full of big league chew and promised to never burst my bubble I loved you from our first date at the batting cages when I missed 23 balls in a row and you looked at me like I was a home run in the ninth inning of the world series Now every time I hear the word, ‘love’, I think going, going… The first week you were gone, I kept seeing your hand wave goodbye like a windshield wiper in a flooding car in the last real moment I believed the hurricane would let me out alive Yesterday I carved your name into the surface of an ice cube then held it against my chest ‘til it melted into my aching pores Today I cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to borrow some sugar I told them I left my sweet tooth in your belly button Love isn’t always magic but if I offered my life to the magician if I told her to cut me in half So tonight I could come to you whole and ask for you back would you listen for this dark alley love song For the winter we heated our home from the steam off our own bodies? I wrote you too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak But I know now it doesn’t matter how well I say grace if I am sitting at a table where I am offering no bread to eat So this is my wheat field; you can have every acre, Love This is my garden song This is my fist fight with that bitter frost Tonight I begged another stage light to become that back alley street lamp that we danced beneath the night your warm mouth fell on my timid cheek as I sang, maybe I need you off key but in tune Maybe I need you the way that big moon needs that open sea Maybe I didn’t even know was here ‘til I saw you holding me Give me one room to come home to give me the palm of your hand Every strand of my hair is a kite string and I have been blue in the face with your sky crying a flood over Iowa so you mother can wake to Venice Lover, I smashed my glass slipper to build a stained glass window for every wall inside my chest Now my heart is a pressed flower and a tattered Bible It is the one verse you can trust So I’m putting all of my words in your collection plate I am setting the table with bread and grace My knees are bent like the corner of a page I am saving your place ”

[@Kkkristy3]

I could never do this without breaking down and crying.

[@skuqem]

I can't even.... I cry every time.

[@jeffdogs1]

SHE SO AMAZING I LOVE THE WAY SHE TELLS A STORY ITS SO BEAUTIFUL TRULY ONE OF THE BEST THINGS IN MY LIFE IS BEING ABLE TO HEAR THESE WORDS EVERYDAY

[@1farahnaz]

I cried.. this was magnificent.

[@bandnerd883]

omg you're my new favorite poet! you're amazing!

[@DrakeDark18]

As I sit here with my eyes closed, and your words roll through my ears to touch my soul You're beautiful and each tear on my cheek is an expression of my true admiration and joy at having heard your voice.

[@quiteirrelephant]

I'm honored to share a name with a woman of her stature, emotionality and strength.

[@Devotchka24]

I cannot listen to any of her poems without bursting into tears.

[@KBlocker29]

This is a beautiful poem. Andrea is amazing. She just touches my heart, breaks it, and then mends it in one fell swoop.

[@shay63421]

All time favorite ❤

[@herecomesthsun]

Andrea Gibson is incredible!

[@indiaxc]

this makes me feel so many feels

[@poetica84]

Absolutely loved this!

[@anahita777]

Thank you for existing ! You're writing from the buttom of my heart with the words I don't have...

[@mfl728]

"This is my wheat field, you can have every acre, love." wow this is great.

[@abdulmajeedhasan5301]

Andrea Gibson....you words are heavensent :')

[@Bamergrrrl]

spoken word has often touched my heart but this took it and broke it and I sit here sobbing like a small child because she spoke to something so deep inside my soul that I didn't even remember it was there

[@makelovenotwar008]

i love how her voice shakes, so passionate

[@teresatechnicolour]

i dont know how i would get through this breakup without her poems , she makes me feel like im not alone , and that i can be strong , and its okay to cry

[@belleboonroong1551]

I just saw her tonight in nyc. She was unbelievably amazing. Wow...

[@jellybeaner777]

She's amazing!

[@xoGorilla]

I just adore this!

[@luckylily94]

All I can think of while listening to this poem is, maybe, just maybe, what I need-what we all need- are more people like you.

[@LittleMonster458]

I'm crying...I love my girl no matter how the family looks at me. Ashley is my forever and always and I know this in the 10th grade. Forever....and......Always

[@bubblegumbabe21]

This is such an unbelieveably amazing piece, seriously impressed with how talented she is, beautiful

[@mrsluna14]

I understand...everything she said and I am literally in tears.....

[@kaiaemanning]

I absolutely love this poem...it's BEAUTIFUL, there's nothing more to say.

[@macmillant]

Andrea Gibson is melting me. Via way of lacigreen I have found her tonight and well after listening to about 30mins of hearing her words and voice... I've sent the money off to my paypal to buy all her cds. And when I finally get those gems of mp3s I am going to play them and play because I don't think there is a way to get enough of this.

[@Lic021]

My friend saw this and said 'She writes love like she invented it' I could not think of a better way to describe her work.

[@Frog869]

never gets old

[@Poodle3624]

One of my favourites - would be amazing to see live! She makes you feel like she’s writing about you.

[@ramyarocks]

Can you explain this please..this is one of her writings Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears. At his side there’s a boy with eyes like an anthem no one stands up for

[@jessicastangl3982]

a perfect description of her words

[@EternalBliss7861]

Wow.. really touching and heck beautiful!

[@KieshawnaRoyal]

incredible, absolutely.

[@jacquelynmccord4935]

You are an amazing writer. Thank you so much - your skill, I admire. A worthy prize & a woman who speaks for all. Be safe, and God Bless you! I will always be an admirer! Loved the musician too.

[@nataliapinon4139]

I'm sitting here speechless. Thank you, your words are beautiful and so magical.