It's easier for me to do it line by line on this one:
Bachelorette, you climb on rooftops (single girls can be wild and free)
Bachelorette, you can turn dust into champagne (dust being both figurative in getting older and time gathering behind her, years getting dusty - and also literal in the fact that she lives alone, has no one to clean up for, she doesn't have to clean, instead she'll just drink champagne and the dust will "disappear" for a while.)
you even remembered his name! (it's the small victories, remembering a one-night lover's name, this time around, anyway.)
Bachelorette, the braves you painted pink (she's been close to settling down once or twice)
Bachelorette, you tried to show him that he can
but you can never rush a man (<---but things just didn't turn out)
[Now this next part seems to be advice from women who aren't single to a bachelorette. It's impossible for me not to hear this part as patronizing, and a bit condescending - as in, "Your turn is coming, poor thing."]
you must remember
you're a car girl (keep going)
you're a star girl (stars and high and shiny, but alone out there)
you are at the door (it could be any day that...)
the tide will turn (things will change...)
there's a window... (look, opportunities are anywhere - jump!)
But maybe she doesn't want to just jump! just because he's a man doesn't make him the man SHE wants!
bachelorette the things you do, girls, to your bachelorettes...
This line really exemplifies what the song means to me. the things you do, girls, to your bachelorettes! Girls are taught early that things should go in sequence and in order, and there are some girls who can't get the rhythm and never get on. Society as a whole is not so kind to the girls who haven't had the love story happen to them. With every june bride, every engagement diamonds television commercial and magazine, billboards and romantic comedies, brides brides brides, it twists the knife into these bachelorettes that feel a push to conform, to participate, to fall in line with the cycle, to have their own love story. Sure everyone wants to be in love, have someone, a partner, a lover. But sometimes it doesn't happen that way. But moreover, it's the pity that others lay on them; that might be the worst of all. Awwww, poor, pitiful, loverless bachelorettes, as if to be without a man is to be nothing at all. [Please note sarcasm!] "Be strong" (you'll go to Paris on your own), and and "hold on" and hold out for... what? a man?! Ugh. It's sick! The sentiment here is pathetic. Stop feeling sorry for these women - they don't need your pity any more than they need the phone number for your wedding planner. How many girls do you know who married a guy just because he was there? And that they fell "in love" because he was the only one around? Or because getting married was just on the list of things to do? And yet, they feel sorry for the single girls, who can't "land a man"... Ugh, the things you do, girls, to your Bachelorettes!
[ I re-read this, and I sound angry! lol! I'm actually married, but this song speaks to me. :) -erica ]
It's easier for me to do it line by line on this one:
Bachelorette, you climb on rooftops (single girls can be wild and free) Bachelorette, you can turn dust into champagne (dust being both figurative in getting older and time gathering behind her, years getting dusty - and also literal in the fact that she lives alone, has no one to clean up for, she doesn't have to clean, instead she'll just drink champagne and the dust will "disappear" for a while.) you even remembered his name! (it's the small victories, remembering a one-night lover's name, this time around, anyway.)
Bachelorette, the braves you painted pink (she's been close to settling down once or twice) Bachelorette, you tried to show him that he can but you can never rush a man (<---but things just didn't turn out)
[Now this next part seems to be advice from women who aren't single to a bachelorette. It's impossible for me not to hear this part as patronizing, and a bit condescending - as in, "Your turn is coming, poor thing."]
you must remember you're a car girl (keep going) you're a star girl (stars and high and shiny, but alone out there) you are at the door (it could be any day that...) the tide will turn (things will change...) there's a window... (look, opportunities are anywhere - jump!) But maybe she doesn't want to just jump! just because he's a man doesn't make him the man SHE wants!
bachelorette the things you do, girls, to your bachelorettes... This line really exemplifies what the song means to me. the things you do, girls, to your bachelorettes! Girls are taught early that things should go in sequence and in order, and there are some girls who can't get the rhythm and never get on. Society as a whole is not so kind to the girls who haven't had the love story happen to them. With every june bride, every engagement diamonds television commercial and magazine, billboards and romantic comedies, brides brides brides, it twists the knife into these bachelorettes that feel a push to conform, to participate, to fall in line with the cycle, to have their own love story. Sure everyone wants to be in love, have someone, a partner, a lover. But sometimes it doesn't happen that way. But moreover, it's the pity that others lay on them; that might be the worst of all. Awwww, poor, pitiful, loverless bachelorettes, as if to be without a man is to be nothing at all. [Please note sarcasm!] "Be strong" (you'll go to Paris on your own), and and "hold on" and hold out for... what? a man?! Ugh. It's sick! The sentiment here is pathetic. Stop feeling sorry for these women - they don't need your pity any more than they need the phone number for your wedding planner. How many girls do you know who married a guy just because he was there? And that they fell "in love" because he was the only one around? Or because getting married was just on the list of things to do? And yet, they feel sorry for the single girls, who can't "land a man"... Ugh, the things you do, girls, to your Bachelorettes!
[ I re-read this, and I sound angry! lol! I'm actually married, but this song speaks to me. :) -erica ]