Write, Nate, Write ([info]anitamusing) wrote,
@ 2002-11-10 23:28:00
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I'm listening to a love song.
Why is everything a love song?
I hate love songs.
I've never been in love.
I don't relate. I can't relate.
I'm sure I'm not the only one.
So why do people keep writing them?
And why do I?

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[info]clax257
2002-11-10 11:42 pm UTC (link)
Hmm. Let me clarify. I wrote this at a particularly...depressed moment of my evening. It's been a very up and down day.

I usually do like love songs, and do relate to many of them. But when I'm feeling like I've never been in love and never will be, they don't really help much.

And in the last line, by "...why do I?" I really meant love poetry, as well. Which you already know that I write like there's no tomorrow, because I'm generally quite the little sap. I couldn't write a song if my life depended on it. I'm so tone-deaf. I can barely read music.

Anyway, thank you for being the first commenter in this journal!

Talk to you soon,
Anita

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[info]emblemparade
2003-07-03 12:54 am UTC (link)
Hey, most love songs are not about love at all. Romantic love (between Man and Woman) is a metaphor for our relationship to Society, and perhaps even to the world. Lyrics like "I think about you every night but you don't want me" can mean things like "there is so much that we want from the world, but, beyond our control, we can't have it, even though we pretend it is in our control". It's actually more than a metaphor: a lot of times those feeling that people feel to be love are really other things entirely. Anyway, it often makes for powerful lyrics.

Sorry. I'm obsessed with the topic.

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