Don't Ask Me Why

@bangdrum Great. Now I can't UNhear it...lol

@bangdrum Just heard this on the radio and caught what I felt was a very deliberate pronunciation of the word. I definitely think it was on purpose.

@JoshF He's saying you came from humble beginnings, but now you're all fancy.

Here is my stab:

The song begins by painting a picture of a woman who has to have it all. By saying every dog must have his EVERY day (rather than every dog has his day), and every drunk must have his drink, which clearly every drunk must have his drinkS. This is a woman who for some reason enjoys living in excess. As the song progresses it becomes obvious that the woman has come into money in a seemingly illlegitimate way, perhaps prostitution. "All your choices made you change your mind" gives you the idea that the woman is fighting herself with her decisions to engage in the activity, but "all your calanders complete" clues you in to the fact that this is a song in the past tense, reflecting on the life of the woman up to this point. The bridge is interesting; it starts out by trying to throw out the presummed rationalization this woman has for her actions by saying there are no feelings involved in the choices shes making and relationships shes having. The line that says "i'm only fighting fire with fire" and "Sure as im a victim of desire" makes me think the persona is perhaps a johnny, who is trying to talk her out of the life style perhaps due to an infatutation he has with her. This bridge is a transition into the present tense. The next stanza fairly blatantly spells out the story i've been explaining. The last stanza sounds as if the woman ran away to france and started a new life and embracing a whole new life blinding herself to everything from the past life she led (yesterday you were an only chil is a reference to the fact she is no sorrounding herself with new people. She has escaped her "Ghosts" in the classic "style" of running away to; in this instance, France. The persona ends by saying that this life she has is an accumulation of all the choices she has made and states for the final time "don't ask me why". The anture of the entire thing makes me believe he is talking to the woman in a sense and she has the demeanor of "i did this, why would i do that?' a sense of disbelief abotu everything and he is responding with his statements leading to the final "dont ask me why'