Like most of The Sundays' lyrics, this song is clever and evokes the curiosity/fear/joy of the first date. The song is touching on the basically universal search for romantic love.
"Some people wind up with the one that they adore," contrasted with "the one that they abhor" shows us the singer's awareness that love is a tricky game, and relationships can end up being something that, like sunshine, "banishes the dark," and bring the joy the singer (like all of us) hopes to find in romance.
It can also fail to bring a connection. I think that's where the singer is at. She hasn't found the love of her life, but is still hopeful.
"Get up a voice inside says there's no time for looking down
Only a pound a word & you're talking to the town"
Here, she's willing to try again. But, trying to meet new people to date is never easy, and fraught with difficulty. She doesn't know what to say in her new ad:
"But how do you coin the phrase though that will set your soul apart?
Just to touch
A lonely heart"
A tough proposition. What do you say to show complete strangers who you are, and attract someone who will make you feel like the feeling in the chorus, where it's thrilling and something you never want to end?
David and Harriet met in college, not through a dating site. The singer here is a typical young woman who desperately wants to fall in love and be swept away, like in the fiction she mentions.
"Is this how it happens?" she asks, apparently feeling the glorious joy of the chorus, but wondering if it's real, or just her dreams of love being solely in her own head.
We're left to wonder how it will turn out, and if her pleasure is temporary, or will last. Like summertime itself, it won't always be like it feels now.
"& it's you & me in the summertime
We'll be hand in hand down in the park
With a squeeze & a sigh & that twinkle in your eye
& all the sunshine banishes the dark"
We all want to feel that way. We all hope to find someone who is as thrilled to be with us as we are to be with them, even though it seems like just a dream.
Personally, I never found anyone who made me feel that way. I wanted it. I even pretended, hoping it would grow into that. It never lasted, and now that I'm old, I gave up and don't care anymore. I'd rather be alone than with someone I "abhor."
I hope that the singer does find what she wants. I hope you all do, because while all my affairs ended badly, I'm just one guy.
Take that chance. You may get hurt, but there's that tiny chance that it could be just what you're hoping for, with a squeeze and a sigh and a twinkle in your eye.
Like most of The Sundays' lyrics, this song is clever and evokes the curiosity/fear/joy of the first date. The song is touching on the basically universal search for romantic love.
"Some people wind up with the one that they adore," contrasted with "the one that they abhor" shows us the singer's awareness that love is a tricky game, and relationships can end up being something that, like sunshine, "banishes the dark," and bring the joy the singer (like all of us) hopes to find in romance.
It can also fail to bring a connection. I think that's where the singer is at. She hasn't found the love of her life, but is still hopeful.
"Get up a voice inside says there's no time for looking down Only a pound a word & you're talking to the town"
Here, she's willing to try again. But, trying to meet new people to date is never easy, and fraught with difficulty. She doesn't know what to say in her new ad:
"But how do you coin the phrase though that will set your soul apart? Just to touch A lonely heart"
A tough proposition. What do you say to show complete strangers who you are, and attract someone who will make you feel like the feeling in the chorus, where it's thrilling and something you never want to end?
David and Harriet met in college, not through a dating site. The singer here is a typical young woman who desperately wants to fall in love and be swept away, like in the fiction she mentions.
"Is this how it happens?" she asks, apparently feeling the glorious joy of the chorus, but wondering if it's real, or just her dreams of love being solely in her own head.
We're left to wonder how it will turn out, and if her pleasure is temporary, or will last. Like summertime itself, it won't always be like it feels now.
"& it's you & me in the summertime We'll be hand in hand down in the park With a squeeze & a sigh & that twinkle in your eye & all the sunshine banishes the dark"
We all want to feel that way. We all hope to find someone who is as thrilled to be with us as we are to be with them, even though it seems like just a dream.
Personally, I never found anyone who made me feel that way. I wanted it. I even pretended, hoping it would grow into that. It never lasted, and now that I'm old, I gave up and don't care anymore. I'd rather be alone than with someone I "abhor."
I hope that the singer does find what she wants. I hope you all do, because while all my affairs ended badly, I'm just one guy.
Take that chance. You may get hurt, but there's that tiny chance that it could be just what you're hoping for, with a squeeze and a sigh and a twinkle in your eye.
lovely and inspirational
lovely and inspirational
lovely and inspirational
lovely and inspirational