I believe this song is about investing time into something, the unique qualities (or the recipe) that made the cake being the metaphor for the ultimate.
I have a friend who thinks this song is about making a child. The cake being the child.
@hejira I think it's a bad metaphor. "I'll never have that recipe again" is NOT something that happens with recipes!! In the era in which the song was written and recorded (each recording), you only have the recipe to use in the first place because it's written down. If you clipped it from a magazine or something, you did that BEFORE you used it. So why the fudge wouldn't you still have that recipe? It's a lyric obviously written by someone who has probably never seen, certainly never used, a recipe.
@hejira I think it's a bad metaphor. "I'll never have that recipe again" is NOT something that happens with recipes!! In the era in which the song was written and recorded (each recording), you only have the recipe to use in the first place because it's written down. If you clipped it from a magazine or something, you did that BEFORE you used it. So why the fudge wouldn't you still have that recipe? It's a lyric obviously written by someone who has probably never seen, certainly never used, a recipe.
I believe this song is about investing time into something, the unique qualities (or the recipe) that made the cake being the metaphor for the ultimate.
I have a friend who thinks this song is about making a child. The cake being the child.
Awww..the baby is so sweet. :)
Awww..the baby is so sweet. :)
@hejira I think it's a bad metaphor. "I'll never have that recipe again" is NOT something that happens with recipes!! In the era in which the song was written and recorded (each recording), you only have the recipe to use in the first place because it's written down. If you clipped it from a magazine or something, you did that BEFORE you used it. So why the fudge wouldn't you still have that recipe? It's a lyric obviously written by someone who has probably never seen, certainly never used, a recipe.
@hejira I think it's a bad metaphor. "I'll never have that recipe again" is NOT something that happens with recipes!! In the era in which the song was written and recorded (each recording), you only have the recipe to use in the first place because it's written down. If you clipped it from a magazine or something, you did that BEFORE you used it. So why the fudge wouldn't you still have that recipe? It's a lyric obviously written by someone who has probably never seen, certainly never used, a recipe.