Burning Up was the seventh track from the album titled Madonna. – “Maybe we were meant to be together even though we never met before.”
Several weeks later I went out to my favorite gay bar for a night of dancing. After I arrived, I headed back to the coat check and walked past the same guy that I had seen at the restaurant a few weeks earlier. He was just as handsome as the first time I saw him. As I walked by him, he looked at me, smiled, and nodded, as if to say hello. I immediately smiled back at him, very happy with the fact that he had finally noticed me.
After checking my coat, I headed to the bar for a soda, and that’s when this stranger came up to me and asked me to dance. Without any hesitation, I accepted his invitation. We spent the next couple of hours dancing and having a great time together.
Once we finished dancing, the two of us walked out onto the patio and began getting to know one another. It was at this point that he told me his name was, Thaddeus. During our conversation, I discovered that he had just recently moved to Greensboro, from Los Angeles, on a one-year assignment with a religious organization called, “The Way.” He admitted up front that his primary goal in being a member of The Way was to convert himself to be straight.
After we talked for about an hour, he began looking at his watch and then told me that he had to go. He had a curfew and had to be home by a particular time. I asked him if he wanted me to walk him to his car. He accepted. As he was about to get into his car, he hugged me and, it was that very moment that my life completely changed. I knew right then and there that I had found the one that I had been waiting on.
As fate would have it, we would spend the next several months getting to know one another. While Thaddeus was doing his very best to convince himself and me that being gay was wrong, I was doing my very best to convince him otherwise. Even though I had never been with anyone in my entire life, I was sure that Thaddeus and I were meant to be together. Although my attraction to him was very physical, I also felt something very profoundly on a soul level. I knew I was about to learn something valuable from this person.
At various times, while hanging out with Thaddeus, things got very confusing. On the one hand, I knew that I had waited a very long time to feel this way about another person, so I was very confident in the fact that he was supposed to be my first, but on the other hand, I wished things weren’t so conflicting. I figured everything was just as it was supposed to be; this was my lesson, and his.
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Don’t put me off, ’cause I’m on fire
And I can’t quench my desire
Don’t you know that I’m
burning up for your love
You’re not convinced that that’s enough
I put myself in this position
And I deserve the imposition
But you don’t even know that I’m alive
And this pounding in my heart just won’t die
I’m burning up
I’m burning up, burning up for your love
I’m burning up, burning up for your love
I’m burning up, burning up for your love
For your love
You’re always closing your door
Well that only makes me want you more
And day and night I cry for your love
You’re still not convinced that that is enough
To justify my wanting you
Now tell me what you want me to do
I’m not blind and I know
That you want to want me but you can’t let go
Come on, let go, oh
Oh, do you wanna see me down on my knees
Or bending over backwards now,
would you be pleased
Unlike the others, I’d do anything
I’m not the same, I have no shame
I’m on fire
I’m burning up [repeat 7 times]
I’m burning up, burning up for your
love [repeat 7 times]
I’m burning up, burning up for your love
I’m burning up, burning up for your love
You know you got me burning up, baby
You know you got me burning up, baby
Burning up for your love
[repeat and fade]
