I’m not very good at this ‘keeping away from blogging’ am I?
Well the reason I am writing this is because I’ve just been a taxi and heard the ancient Dr Hook song, ‘When You’re In Love With A Beautiful Woman’.
I never liked it … or them … but hearing it again after god knows how many decades, I realised how their happy little tune contains some of the most bitter song lyrics I’ve heard since I had the misfortune of hearing The Smiths.
If you don’t know the song, click here … but for those who can hum the middle-of-the-road ditty in their sleep, here are the lyrics …
When you’re in love with a beautiful woman … it’s hard
When you’re in love with a beautiful woman … you know it’s hard
Everybody wants her, everybody loves her
Everybody wants to take your baby home
When you’re in love with a beautiful woman … you watch your friends
[Watch your friends, you gotta watch your friends]
When you’re in love with a beautiful woman … it never ends
[It never ends, you know it never ends]
You know that it’s crazy, you want to trust her
Then somebody hangs up when you answer the phone
When you’re in love with a beautiful woman … you go it alone
Maybe it’s just an ego problem
Problem is I’ve been fooled before
By fair weathered friends and faint hearted lovers
And every time it happens
It just convinces me more
When you’re in love with a beautiful woman … you watch her eyes
[Watch her eyes, baby, watch her eyes]
When you’re in love with a beautiful woman … you look for lies
[Look for lies, baby, lookin’ for lies]
Everybody tempts her, everybody tells her
She’s the most beautiful woman they know
It’s like singing a Slayer ‘song’ to the tune of Happy Birthday …
Saying that, I think it’s time to write a sequel … maybe something like ‘When You’re In Love With A Beautiful Woman [It’s Hard … Unless You’re Loaded!]’
The thing is, I think everyone can sort of relate to the story of this song … let’s face it, when an ‘ugly’ goes out with a hottie, you don’t think it’ll last because you know everyone looks at you thinking “it’ll never last” [which is why Cate Blanchet’s husband and I live in daily fear of our other halves coming to their senses] … so why do so many people go out of their way to associate with brands that they know in their heart, don’t really suit them?
Of course there are many answers – but one of them is that these people [of which I am one] like to convince themselves they are one of the ‘exceptions’ when to everyone else, they’re just one of the delusional masses, ha!
Anyway I better go because I leave on a jet plane in 3 days and still have 50,000 boxes of crap I need to sort through. Eek!
Till my next contradiction of starting my blog again in Feb …