Your Love
Lyrics:
Josie's on a vacation far awayCome around and talk it overSo many things that I want to sayYou know I like my girls a little bit older
I just want to use your love tonightI don't want to lose your love tonight
I ain't got many friends left to talk toNowhere to run when I'm in troubleYou know I'd do anything for youStay the night but keep it undercover
I just want to use your love tonight (whoa)I don't want to lose your love tonight
Try to stop my hands from shakingBut something in my mind's not making senseIt's been a while since we were all aloneI can't hide the way I'm feeling
As you're leaving, please would you close the door?And don't forget what I told youJust 'cause you're right that don't mean I'm wrongAnother shoulder to cry upon
I just want to use your love tonight (yeah)I don't want to lose your love tonight (yeah)I just want to use your love tonightI don't want to lose your love tonightI just want to use your love tonightI don't want to lose your love tonight
Your (Use your love) loveOh, I don't want to lose (lose your, tonight)I don't wanna, no, I don't wannaI don't wanna lose (use your, tonight)Your love, your (lose your, tonight)Your love (use your, tonight)Your love (lose your, tonight)I don't want to lose your love tonightLove (use your, tonight)(Lose your, tonight) I don't want to lose your love tonight
Wasn't that fun? Did it make you vomit in your mouth a little? Samesies. I assume Josie is his girlfriend. Where did she go? All we know is she is far away. And he likes his girls a little bit older. Older than Josie? Older than whomever he's talking to? We don't really know. Maybe he's lamenting they're both too young. Is he a pedo? He sure wants to "use her love," which is code for have sex with her. Love = sex in a lot of songs. Rock and roll is good at hiding word meanings. Rock was always about sex. The term "rock and roll" even refers to sex in a car. And when Bruce Springsteen sang the song Dancing in the Dark, you guessed it, that was about sex with the lights out. Dancing = sex. And when Billy Idol said he was "dancing with myself," that was about, well, sex with himself. So, Your Love really equates to "your sex." Decoded that for you. You're welcome. I prefer songs like this to what's on the radio nowadays because they just come right out and say what they mean now. I'd rather have my kid hear a coded version of a song than an explicit version, though they both say the same thing. Anyway. His girlfriend is out of town and he wants to have sex with some other girl. How sweet. What a great idea for a song.
He doesn't have many friends to talk to and nowhere to run when he's in trouble? What? What kind of guy is this? This isn't the kind of guy you want your daughter hanging with. He wants to stay the night but keep it a secret. And it's been a while since he's done this. He's done it before. He's a womanizer. I've known a few in my day. And then he tells her to close the door when she leaves. And he says she's right but he's also right. What kind of logic is that? They had a disagreement about something. Maybe because he's a sleezeball. And that's probably enough of that. I want to say you couldn't get away with writing a song like this anymore, but that's not true.
I think people like this song because of the impossibly high voice of the singer. And, well, nostalgia for the 80s. The rest of the video reeks of 80s cliches. The hair. The clothes. The whole attitude. Some guys who came of age in the 80s still act like they're living in the 80s. Have you noticed? The attitudes are the same. Hopefully, they dress a bit better. I've never understood the urge to have multiple sex partners. I always wanted one girl. One girl to love who loved me back. It seemed so simple and possible back then. Unfortunately, I chose a girl who couldn't be true. Maybe that's why I greatly dislike anything with the theme of cheating or a cavalier attitude toward sex. That's never been me, and I was the one who endured the outcome of that sort of thinking. I've said enough about that. If you wonder what the song would sound like with a female vocalist, try this. Yeah, I got TikTok. Just wanted to see what the fuss was about. (Still don't know but decided it's probably not for me.) Also, I wanted to follow a woman who advocates for men, as you don't hear that enough. There are a lot of good guys out there who don't toot their own horns. (It didn't work for me, either. People see what they want to see.) This song's theme is the antitheses of me. Using someone is antithetic to my beliefs and mode of conduct. My hair ain't much better than those guys, but that's another story.
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My next post talks about the girl I fell in love with, the girl I've admired ever since I can remember. (It doesn't even feel right writing about her on a post like this.) She will, no doubt, disagree with some of what I wrote, but it's how I see her. (She probably thinks I'm full of hooey or was snowballing her. I wish she could have seen my heart. I was never as honest with anyone as I was with her. And never more vulnerable. Honestly, if someone said all of that stuff to me, I would be skeptical too. She deserved the best and I wanted to be the best. If I made mistakes in how I chased her it was because I saw just how special she is. Also, perhaps because I didn't try hard enough the first time around. Chasing her that hard is contrary to my personality. Or at least is highly uncomfortable.) Yes, I prefer the real-life version of her as opposed to my reconstructed version, but memories are all I have. I know she isn't perfect, but when you love someone, their frailties fade into the background. Love believes all things and hopes all things. Which is easy with her because she has so many things going for her. She really is a treasure, and I'm sure many others agree. I enjoyed chasing her. I don't know if I'll get another chance, but I won't chase her the same way again.
She is special and should be pursued differently. I said everything a man could say. I did about all a man can do. She knows how I feel. I kept striking out. Everyone knows how I see her, but how does she see me? Does she even like me? I think so. I never knew if or when I'd see her again so I said everything in my head, which probably scared her. She probably thinks I'm that way all the time. I get excited around her. Can't help it. (If I was around her all the time I'm sure the feelings would moderate.) I guess until I get an okay from her, I shouldn't pursue her? I don't want to stop ... but she made it clear she needs to wait. I don't know how long, but we'll take it at her pace. I want to be in her future.
What I wrote about her over the years fell far short of how I actually felt. I won't try to explain. It was new and unexpected. I felt blessed to harbor such a beautiful thing in my chest. Putting my love for her in a place like this was safe, as she could visit or not. I didn't shove it down her throat. I simply expressed it. The more I think about how I loved her, the more I see how respectful it was. (The blog wasn't supposed to be a method of chasing, but it may have been seen like that. That wasn't my intention.) If someone described it to me, I wouldn't have believed it. I had to experience it to realize things like that actually happen. My feelings moderated over the years, but they also deepened. What I expected would wear out became stronger.
I don't intend to update on this subject anymore. Whatever happens, if anything, should be private. Weird thing to say about a personal blog, but whatever. By now, we all get it. Have fun out there, everyone. Take care.
Thank you for reading. And God bless.
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