You were not looking for it. You were not ready for it. You had built your walls up high and reinforced them with steel and concrete and cynicism. And then someone showed up who did not care about your walls. They just walked right through them.
“Came From Love” is about that disorienting, terrifying, wonderful experience of love finding you when you least expect it.
“I had given up,” Tom Bruggemann says. “Genuinely given up on the idea that I was going to find what I was looking for. And that is exactly when it showed up.”
The song captures the vulnerability of being caught off guard by your own feelings. The way your brain says no but your heart has already made the decision. The way love can feel like both a gift and an ambush at the same time.
Have you ever met someone at exactly the wrong time, only to realize it was exactly the right time? Have you ever fought your own feelings because the timing was terrible, the circumstances were impossible, and none of it made sense on paper?
Tom has. And “Came From Love” is the song that proves sometimes the best things in life are the ones you never planned for.