TM Challenge: What is your worst quality as a significant other?
The first thing that pops into my head is the “Always On My Mind” song. Not the Willie Nelson looking-back version or Elvis Presley with his crooner smoothness convincing someone of something he doesn’t mean, but the Brenda Lee version with her husky, pounding voice. When she sings it, it sounds like she’s trying to stop someone from leaving the room, just give her one more chance. It was really on her mind. The Pet Shop Boys’ version must fit in there somewhere. Maybe 80s synth love just needed its own claim to the song.
Anyway, everyone know this uplifting ditty about too little, too late or trying to figure out the one thing that will make them stay. You know the one-- something like, sorry babe, I meant to tell you more often, I meant to do something for you, I meant to be a better person. Tell me that your sweet love hasn’t died. And there’s that infamous line, you were always on my mind. Does that one-liner, repeated a couple of times, make up for all the things that weren’t done?
It is a song reserved for 50-year wedding anniversaries (Willie), late-night calls to make it right (Elvis), gay dance clubs (PSB) or the song you find yourself saying as someone walks out the door, even if it sounds cliche (Brenda). I am pretty sure you can see where I am going with this whole-depressing-analogy thing. My strong point isn’t really the mushy romance-y things that the song proclaims that the person never did. Saying the right words? Well, that’s kinda obvious. Holding during the lonely times? I guess I just don’t always have a good feel for that sorta thing.
Little things said and done? Here I sort of think Elvis, Pet Shop Boys and Willie are talking about poetry reading, flowers, jewelry, picnics in the park. Not really my deal, I’m more of a pez-dispenser-type guy. It makes me wonder what Brenda meant here. What is she claiming that she should have done? Hustler says that men (supposing Brenda is singing to a man here) wants more sandwiches, blow jobs and control of the remote. But, to me, Brenda sounds like she means so much more meaningful than that mainstream version of what makes a man happy. I sort of get the idea that it’s all the times she shut him out when times got hard or the times she left to deal with her shit or whatever. Okay, I am totally projecting now. Hey, at least I didn't write about a Cure song.
You catch my drift though- if I had to pick, I think my worst quality is all the little things I never said and did.
Word Count: 454
Muse: Daniel "Oz" Osbourne
Verse: BtVS
Anyway, everyone know this uplifting ditty about too little, too late or trying to figure out the one thing that will make them stay. You know the one-- something like, sorry babe, I meant to tell you more often, I meant to do something for you, I meant to be a better person. Tell me that your sweet love hasn’t died. And there’s that infamous line, you were always on my mind. Does that one-liner, repeated a couple of times, make up for all the things that weren’t done?
It is a song reserved for 50-year wedding anniversaries (Willie), late-night calls to make it right (Elvis), gay dance clubs (PSB) or the song you find yourself saying as someone walks out the door, even if it sounds cliche (Brenda). I am pretty sure you can see where I am going with this whole-depressing-analogy thing. My strong point isn’t really the mushy romance-y things that the song proclaims that the person never did. Saying the right words? Well, that’s kinda obvious. Holding during the lonely times? I guess I just don’t always have a good feel for that sorta thing.
Little things said and done? Here I sort of think Elvis, Pet Shop Boys and Willie are talking about poetry reading, flowers, jewelry, picnics in the park. Not really my deal, I’m more of a pez-dispenser-type guy. It makes me wonder what Brenda meant here. What is she claiming that she should have done? Hustler says that men (supposing Brenda is singing to a man here) wants more sandwiches, blow jobs and control of the remote. But, to me, Brenda sounds like she means so much more meaningful than that mainstream version of what makes a man happy. I sort of get the idea that it’s all the times she shut him out when times got hard or the times she left to deal with her shit or whatever. Okay, I am totally projecting now. Hey, at least I didn't write about a Cure song.
You catch my drift though- if I had to pick, I think my worst quality is all the little things I never said and did.
Word Count: 454
Muse: Daniel "Oz" Osbourne
Verse: BtVS