Oh, how beautifully perfect! Starts out with words consoling that poor, but strong mom who only wanted someone to love her & take care of her kids - but, he left and she soldiers on, for the kids' sake. That louse up & left her. Aren't all men like that? He's not worth the tears, honey...
Then, the kicker, right there at the end. The truth comes out... "All you ever wanted was someone ma'd be scared of"
She wanted a bad guy. She picked one on purpose. She wanted people to feel all sorry for her. She knew he wouldn't stick around. She hoped he wouldn't. Oh, isn't this fun, getting all of this attention, playing the martyr...
That “payoff” line you mentioned (“someone ma’d be scared of”) makes the listener (ok, maybe it’s just me 😂) return to the first sung variation of the lyric in that part of the (pre-) chorus, when he sings “All you ever wanted was someone to take care of you” and rethink it as not being just some innocent “wish” she’d made while she was younger, but to actually be truly faulty logic with which she has seemingly cornered herself. Except right at that time, she’s not yet learnt to look within for strength, she still believes the answer to happiness...
That “payoff” line you mentioned (“someone ma’d be scared of”) makes the listener (ok, maybe it’s just me 😂) return to the first sung variation of the lyric in that part of the (pre-) chorus, when he sings “All you ever wanted was someone to take care of you” and rethink it as not being just some innocent “wish” she’d made while she was younger, but to actually be truly faulty logic with which she has seemingly cornered herself. Except right at that time, she’s not yet learnt to look within for strength, she still believes the answer to happiness is a lasting relationship with another person. I can recall people giving me advice, when I was young, about not putting too much faith in others, or not getting too caught up in “wishing” for the future or whatever, but I know I had a hard time grasping exactly what they were trying to get across to me. Like the old folks say (and I know, cuz I’m one of them now 😂 ), “Youth is wasted on the young”, which of course is not REALLY true in an objective sense, but I can see what they meant now. But youth is really the time for committing errors in judgment; f’ing up isn’t fun, but in my experience, it’s been the best way to learn).
Idk if this applies to all or most people but when I was younger, I had all kinds of ideas about what I might want or expect (aka, “demand” 😂) from my future romantic partner, which now makes me feel as if i ignored the reality (or just didn’t understand it at the time, which I gotta believe is fairly universal) that the only way to be “happy”, or to at least get on the road to a happier life (in the spirit of “life is a journey, not a destination”), is to figure out what’s going on inside my mind and try to deal with it with it while being rigorously honest with myself, as I’ve found that my biggest obstacle in life has always been my own feelings/thoughts/ideas/likes & dislikes, and the ways I’d learnt to deal with…life, as it’s coming at me a mile a minute (or so it can seem sometimes). And it sounds as if the female subject of “Little Mascara” is heading for an eventual showdown with her own psyche. But she’ll figure it out and get it together, even as she tells herself she’s doing it (persevering) “for the kids”.
Oh, how beautifully perfect! Starts out with words consoling that poor, but strong mom who only wanted someone to love her & take care of her kids - but, he left and she soldiers on, for the kids' sake. That louse up & left her. Aren't all men like that? He's not worth the tears, honey...
Then, the kicker, right there at the end. The truth comes out... "All you ever wanted was someone ma'd be scared of"
She wanted a bad guy. She picked one on purpose. She wanted people to feel all sorry for her. She knew he wouldn't stick around. She hoped he wouldn't. Oh, isn't this fun, getting all of this attention, playing the martyr...
Pathetic
That “payoff” line you mentioned (“someone ma’d be scared of”) makes the listener (ok, maybe it’s just me 😂) return to the first sung variation of the lyric in that part of the (pre-) chorus, when he sings “All you ever wanted was someone to take care of you” and rethink it as not being just some innocent “wish” she’d made while she was younger, but to actually be truly faulty logic with which she has seemingly cornered herself. Except right at that time, she’s not yet learnt to look within for strength, she still believes the answer to happiness...
That “payoff” line you mentioned (“someone ma’d be scared of”) makes the listener (ok, maybe it’s just me 😂) return to the first sung variation of the lyric in that part of the (pre-) chorus, when he sings “All you ever wanted was someone to take care of you” and rethink it as not being just some innocent “wish” she’d made while she was younger, but to actually be truly faulty logic with which she has seemingly cornered herself. Except right at that time, she’s not yet learnt to look within for strength, she still believes the answer to happiness is a lasting relationship with another person. I can recall people giving me advice, when I was young, about not putting too much faith in others, or not getting too caught up in “wishing” for the future or whatever, but I know I had a hard time grasping exactly what they were trying to get across to me. Like the old folks say (and I know, cuz I’m one of them now 😂 ), “Youth is wasted on the young”, which of course is not REALLY true in an objective sense, but I can see what they meant now. But youth is really the time for committing errors in judgment; f’ing up isn’t fun, but in my experience, it’s been the best way to learn).
Idk if this applies to all or most people but when I was younger, I had all kinds of ideas about what I might want or expect (aka, “demand” 😂) from my future romantic partner, which now makes me feel as if i ignored the reality (or just didn’t understand it at the time, which I gotta believe is fairly universal) that the only way to be “happy”, or to at least get on the road to a happier life (in the spirit of “life is a journey, not a destination”), is to figure out what’s going on inside my mind and try to deal with it with it while being rigorously honest with myself, as I’ve found that my biggest obstacle in life has always been my own feelings/thoughts/ideas/likes & dislikes, and the ways I’d learnt to deal with…life, as it’s coming at me a mile a minute (or so it can seem sometimes). And it sounds as if the female subject of “Little Mascara” is heading for an eventual showdown with her own psyche. But she’ll figure it out and get it together, even as she tells herself she’s doing it (persevering) “for the kids”.