Wow! Surprised to read everyone's thoughts on this song. I have a completely different take on it.
This has always been one of my all-time favourite songs and I've always viewed it in a positive light.
I see it kind of like this tough, invincible woman who doesn't let her guard down suddenly falling in love and being open and vulnerable. I love those lyrics, "I found religion in the greeting card aisle/ Now I know hallmark was right
And every pop song on the radio/ Is suddenly speaking to me" As though before she could care less about stupid shit like that but now that she's fallen in love she's "just like everybody else" and is getting all sentimental about pop songs and greeting cards. And "you've been gone exactly two weeks, two weeks and three days" when we're in love we count the days when we have to be away from the person we love. And "it's my first time for this kind of thing" first time she's really let her guard down and allowed herself to be love struck.
That's my take on it, anyway. I've never though this was a song about being betrayed or hurt. I always thought that this was a song about a very powerful woman unexpectedly being open to the vulnerability and raw emotion of love. It's one of my favourite "love songs" :D
Wow! Surprised to read everyone's thoughts on this song. I have a completely different take on it.
This has always been one of my all-time favourite songs and I've always viewed it in a positive light.
I see it kind of like this tough, invincible woman who doesn't let her guard down suddenly falling in love and being open and vulnerable. I love those lyrics, "I found religion in the greeting card aisle/ Now I know hallmark was right And every pop song on the radio/ Is suddenly speaking to me" As though before she could care less about stupid shit like that but now that she's fallen in love she's "just like everybody else" and is getting all sentimental about pop songs and greeting cards. And "you've been gone exactly two weeks, two weeks and three days" when we're in love we count the days when we have to be away from the person we love. And "it's my first time for this kind of thing" first time she's really let her guard down and allowed herself to be love struck.
That's my take on it, anyway. I've never though this was a song about being betrayed or hurt. I always thought that this was a song about a very powerful woman unexpectedly being open to the vulnerability and raw emotion of love. It's one of my favourite "love songs" :D