This is my first comment on songmeanings.net, and I didn't notice that I could type it here. So let me just re-type what I wrote previously.
When I listen to it, I think of it as much more than simply just a "nice" song. And that's what makes this song so different. Jim Krueger, who wrote it, and Dave Mason, who sang it, doesn't feel the need for it to be just another "nice song." It's more than that, or less than that, depending on one's point of view. Everybody listens to music differently, I guess. Music is strictly subjective.
I've liked "We Just Disagree" by Dave Mason since I first heard it when I was just a teenager of 16. It's a good song with very simple and straight-to-the-point lyrics. It's realistic, with no sappiness. An adult kind of song with a mature kind of approach. It's probably the only song that I've ever heard that can say something that's sad in such a matter-of-fact, pragmatic, and rational way, with absolutely no histrionics. And sung so stoically by Mason that it would have made even history's most famous stoic, General George Washington, proud. "Been away. Haven't seen you in a while. How've you been? Have you changed your style? And do you think that we've grown up differently? It don't seem the same. Have you lost your feel for me? So let's leave it alone, 'cause we can't see eye to eye. There ain't no good guy, there ain't no bad guy. There's only you and me and we just disagree." Up until I was 16 and I first heard this song, I had never heard a song with a subject matter such as this that was written and presented in such a straightforward and rational, non-hysterical way. Albert Ellis, the controversial yet brilliant psychologist who invented REBT (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy) would definitely have liked the song. If he happened to ever hear the song, he most probably did like it, as well as agreed with its direct, unemotional philosophy and common sense approach.
It could be about either about the breakup of a romantic or a platonic friendship. The song would make sense either way.
Many songs depend on bathetic lyrics. This song is the opposite of bathetic!!!! It's just a matter of "Hey, we don't get along anymore. It's obvious that we've grown apart. We're just irritating each other and we're not getting along and we're constantly getting on each other's nerves, and it's making us miserable and it just doesn't seem to be that we'll get back to the way things were. Let's just leave it alone; it's over, and we've tried. It's sad, but these things happen."
Simple and to the point.
I do agree with the comment by Thia007, that maybe they've been apart for a long time, and they've forgotten what it was that they liked about each other in the FIRST place.
This is my first comment on songmeanings.net, and I didn't notice that I could type it here. So let me just re-type what I wrote previously.
When I listen to it, I think of it as much more than simply just a "nice" song. And that's what makes this song so different. Jim Krueger, who wrote it, and Dave Mason, who sang it, doesn't feel the need for it to be just another "nice song." It's more than that, or less than that, depending on one's point of view. Everybody listens to music differently, I guess. Music is strictly subjective.
I've liked "We Just Disagree" by Dave Mason since I first heard it when I was just a teenager of 16. It's a good song with very simple and straight-to-the-point lyrics. It's realistic, with no sappiness. An adult kind of song with a mature kind of approach. It's probably the only song that I've ever heard that can say something that's sad in such a matter-of-fact, pragmatic, and rational way, with absolutely no histrionics. And sung so stoically by Mason that it would have made even history's most famous stoic, General George Washington, proud. "Been away. Haven't seen you in a while. How've you been? Have you changed your style? And do you think that we've grown up differently? It don't seem the same. Have you lost your feel for me? So let's leave it alone, 'cause we can't see eye to eye. There ain't no good guy, there ain't no bad guy. There's only you and me and we just disagree." Up until I was 16 and I first heard this song, I had never heard a song with a subject matter such as this that was written and presented in such a straightforward and rational, non-hysterical way. Albert Ellis, the controversial yet brilliant psychologist who invented REBT (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy) would definitely have liked the song. If he happened to ever hear the song, he most probably did like it, as well as agreed with its direct, unemotional philosophy and common sense approach.
It could be about either about the breakup of a romantic or a platonic friendship. The song would make sense either way.
Many songs depend on bathetic lyrics. This song is the opposite of bathetic!!!! It's just a matter of "Hey, we don't get along anymore. It's obvious that we've grown apart. We're just irritating each other and we're not getting along and we're constantly getting on each other's nerves, and it's making us miserable and it just doesn't seem to be that we'll get back to the way things were. Let's just leave it alone; it's over, and we've tried. It's sad, but these things happen."
Simple and to the point.
I do agree with the comment by Thia007, that maybe they've been apart for a long time, and they've forgotten what it was that they liked about each other in the FIRST place.