-- Jessie's Girl--
So catchy, semi-pathetic- 'Where can I find a woman like that? I wish that I had Jessie's girl...' But then you listen more closely, and you think 'How old is this guy? That sounds really immature.'
Jessie is a friend,
Yeah, I know he's been a good friend of mine
But lately something's changed
It ain't hard to define
Jessie's got himself a girl and I want to make her mine
And then you hear these words:
And I'm lookin' in the mirror all the time (That's what you do when you have a hopeless crush. You look in a mirror. At yourself.)
Wonderin' what she don't see in me (So hard to imagine.)
I've been funny; I've been cool with the lines
Ain't that the way love's supposed to be?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, twelve year old boy, THAT is exactly the way love is supposed to be-it's all about being funny and cool with the lines.
But then one has to wonder- was Rick Springfield just having a laugh at the world's expense?
---Two Steps Behind---
Walk away if you want to
It's OK, if you need to (Passive aggressive, anyone?)
You can run, but you can never hide
From the shadow that's creeping up beside you (YOU said creep, I didn't)
There's a magic running through your soul (magic, another word for panic)
But you can't have it all
(Whatever you do)
I'll be two steps behind you (GET AWAY FROM ME YOU CREEP I HAVE PEPPER SPRAY)
(Wherever you go)
And I'll be there to remind you
That it only takes a minute of your precious time
To turn around and I'll be two steps behind
CREEPIEST SONG EVER. Also known as Stalker Song. Again, did he do it for fun? Could anyone have seriously meant this for a love song?
---Do They Know It's Christmas---
Okay I realize this song is MEANT to bean act of love- raising money and awareness for victims of a famine in Ethiopia. But but...
But say a prayer, to pray for the other ones, at Christmastime
It's hard, but when you're having fun
There's a world outside your window (I approve this message....)
And it's a world of dread and fear (...but everything outside your world of comfort isn't a world of dread and fear)
Where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears (Okay, drought reference, fine)
And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom (Little dramatic, but we'll let it go)
Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you (Wait what did you say? Maybe I misheard you. Let's hear it again...What?)
WELL TONIGHT THANK GOD IT'S THEM INSTEAD OF YOU
Yes, THAT is the appropriate response to suffering in the world.... THANK GOD with all your heart that in the lottery of life YOU got to sit in a comfortable first world house opening multiple gifts and sipping eggnog, and that some faceless Ethiopian was the one who got picked to starve in a famine. It's hard to grasp the whys of suffering, the reality of the great divide between the haves and have-nots, and there are no easy answers, but I promise you that THAT is the most selfish response I have every heard cloaked under a thin veneer of gratitude. Blech!
And then...
Do they know it's Christmastime at all?
There IS a world outside of the UK. A Christian world, that knows it's Christmas even when it isn't snowing, or when it isn't possible to feast in the same style as rich first-worlders. The first Christmas was a quiet affair in the Middle East, and Christmas is celebrated in the poorest homes in all corners of the earth. The birth of Jesus is even more precious to His little, poor, weak ones.
---More Than Words---
Okay, I like this song. I like the melody, the rhythm. It's one of the typical songs that we sing when someone pulls out a guitar. BUT. I'm hearing something more than a simple love song.
Saying I love you
Is not the words I want to hear from you
It's not that I want you
Not to say, but if you only knew
How easy it would be to show me how you feel
More than words is all you have to do to make it real
Then you wouldn't have to say that you love me
'Cause I'd already know
Did you hear that? No? What I'm hearing is a boyfriend pressurizing his girlfriend to have sex. "Baby if you REALLY loved me, you'd SHOW me."
THAT'S NOT REAL LOVE. Just saying.
Okay random ranty rant over. Thanks for your patient listening. Feel free to actually pull up the lyrics of the songs you listen to and take them apart too. Don't be sheeple!
So catchy, semi-pathetic- 'Where can I find a woman like that? I wish that I had Jessie's girl...' But then you listen more closely, and you think 'How old is this guy? That sounds really immature.'
Jessie is a friend,
Yeah, I know he's been a good friend of mine
But lately something's changed
It ain't hard to define
Jessie's got himself a girl and I want to make her mine
And then you hear these words:
And I'm lookin' in the mirror all the time (That's what you do when you have a hopeless crush. You look in a mirror. At yourself.)
Wonderin' what she don't see in me (So hard to imagine.)
I've been funny; I've been cool with the lines
Ain't that the way love's supposed to be?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, twelve year old boy, THAT is exactly the way love is supposed to be-it's all about being funny and cool with the lines.
But then one has to wonder- was Rick Springfield just having a laugh at the world's expense?
---Two Steps Behind---
Walk away if you want to
It's OK, if you need to (Passive aggressive, anyone?)
You can run, but you can never hide
From the shadow that's creeping up beside you (YOU said creep, I didn't)
There's a magic running through your soul (magic, another word for panic)
But you can't have it all
(Whatever you do)
I'll be two steps behind you (GET AWAY FROM ME YOU CREEP I HAVE PEPPER SPRAY)
(Wherever you go)
And I'll be there to remind you
That it only takes a minute of your precious time
To turn around and I'll be two steps behind
CREEPIEST SONG EVER. Also known as Stalker Song. Again, did he do it for fun? Could anyone have seriously meant this for a love song?
---Do They Know It's Christmas---
Okay I realize this song is MEANT to bean act of love- raising money and awareness for victims of a famine in Ethiopia. But but...
But say a prayer, to pray for the other ones, at Christmastime
It's hard, but when you're having fun
There's a world outside your window (I approve this message....)
And it's a world of dread and fear (...but everything outside your world of comfort isn't a world of dread and fear)
Where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears (Okay, drought reference, fine)
And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom (Little dramatic, but we'll let it go)
Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you (Wait what did you say? Maybe I misheard you. Let's hear it again...What?)
WELL TONIGHT THANK GOD IT'S THEM INSTEAD OF YOU
Yes, THAT is the appropriate response to suffering in the world.... THANK GOD with all your heart that in the lottery of life YOU got to sit in a comfortable first world house opening multiple gifts and sipping eggnog, and that some faceless Ethiopian was the one who got picked to starve in a famine. It's hard to grasp the whys of suffering, the reality of the great divide between the haves and have-nots, and there are no easy answers, but I promise you that THAT is the most selfish response I have every heard cloaked under a thin veneer of gratitude. Blech!
And then...
Do they know it's Christmastime at all?
There IS a world outside of the UK. A Christian world, that knows it's Christmas even when it isn't snowing, or when it isn't possible to feast in the same style as rich first-worlders. The first Christmas was a quiet affair in the Middle East, and Christmas is celebrated in the poorest homes in all corners of the earth. The birth of Jesus is even more precious to His little, poor, weak ones.
---More Than Words---
Okay, I like this song. I like the melody, the rhythm. It's one of the typical songs that we sing when someone pulls out a guitar. BUT. I'm hearing something more than a simple love song.
Saying I love you
Is not the words I want to hear from you
It's not that I want you
Not to say, but if you only knew
How easy it would be to show me how you feel
More than words is all you have to do to make it real
Then you wouldn't have to say that you love me
'Cause I'd already know
Did you hear that? No? What I'm hearing is a boyfriend pressurizing his girlfriend to have sex. "Baby if you REALLY loved me, you'd SHOW me."
THAT'S NOT REAL LOVE. Just saying.
Okay random ranty rant over. Thanks for your patient listening. Feel free to actually pull up the lyrics of the songs you listen to and take them apart too. Don't be sheeple!
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