From: b
Q.I was just recently listening to “I Love My Car” and it really hit me like never before, quite how mean that song is. Mind you, I’m sure it’s all very tongue in cheek, and I do so adore the song in question, but it got me thinking. It got me a bit depressed, really. I thought, “Do people really think about how they love inanimate objects and household animals more than their partner?” Don’t get me wrong here, in no way am I criticising the lyrics, but I was just wondering if this song was written while these upfront words were fresh and true. It is truly plaguing me how the song came to be. Falling out of love is not such a nice business, after all! At least, so I have come to believe. I’m quite young and perhaps ignorant, as I’m currently lucky enough to be in love for the first time (and loved back) and have therefore never fallen out of it (or had anyone fall out of it with me)! Maybe I'm just being silly?
A. well b, i think the thing is that when you find yourself tumbling bruised from a relationship, and you find a semblance of stability, sometimes you find yourself finding inordinate comfort in small, steady things, even investing them with a personality. I find myself doing that at the best of times, so when the shit really hits the fan love-wise, the warm embrace of four doors and three litres of engine becomes legendary.
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From: b Q.I was just recently listening to “I Love My Car” and it really hit me like never before, quite how mean that song is. Mind you, I’m sure it’s all very tongue in cheek, and I do so adore the song in question, but it got me thinking. It got me a bit depressed, really. I thought, “Do people really think about how they love inanimate objects and household animals more than their partner?” Don’t get me wrong here, in no way am I criticising the lyrics, but I was just wondering if this song was written while these upfront words were fresh and true. It is truly plaguing me how the song came to be. Falling out of love is not such a nice business, after all! At least, so I have come to believe. I’m quite young and perhaps ignorant, as I’m currently lucky enough to be in love for the first time (and loved back) and have therefore never fallen out of it (or had anyone fall out of it with me)! Maybe I'm just being silly?
A. well b, i think the thing is that when you find yourself tumbling bruised from a relationship, and you find a semblance of stability, sometimes you find yourself finding inordinate comfort in small, steady things, even investing them with a personality. I find myself doing that at the best of times, so when the shit really hits the fan love-wise, the warm embrace of four doors and three litres of engine becomes legendary.
hope you grow up wiser (than me)
Stuart - 24/07/06