I love this song and wish this topic would come up in society - it rarely if ever does. As a late-blooming glasses-wearing guy faced with abuse at home and bullying at school I didn't get around to asking a girl out until the spring of my senior year...and she politely declined. The lost lessons of high school turned into fumbles and fear of rejection in college and I didn't have a girlfriend until 23.
Then, for 20 years, I considered myself "over" this earlier pain. But in midlife, it came back. With everything settled - and settling down - in life, you cast your gaze fondly to the past. I found myself bankrupt...my peers, the "jocks" and early bloomers who aged quickly and not nearly as well as me, could still draw on all the good and bad capers of their past. I have nothing.
I'll sit up late at night after the family is at bed, listen to this song, and ponder if that girl in high school had said "yes" 3 decades ago.
@talkaboutsongs Sometimes, as cruel as it sounds, some people only fall in love to leave. We live in quite a shallow world (although I think it's getting deeper, more intellectual, less materialistic) but the popular won't always have the upper hand in life, and the down & outers won't always be down & out. The tide turns in life.
@talkaboutsongs Sometimes, as cruel as it sounds, some people only fall in love to leave. We live in quite a shallow world (although I think it's getting deeper, more intellectual, less materialistic) but the popular won't always have the upper hand in life, and the down & outers won't always be down & out. The tide turns in life.
I love this song and wish this topic would come up in society - it rarely if ever does. As a late-blooming glasses-wearing guy faced with abuse at home and bullying at school I didn't get around to asking a girl out until the spring of my senior year...and she politely declined. The lost lessons of high school turned into fumbles and fear of rejection in college and I didn't have a girlfriend until 23.
Then, for 20 years, I considered myself "over" this earlier pain. But in midlife, it came back. With everything settled - and settling down - in life, you cast your gaze fondly to the past. I found myself bankrupt...my peers, the "jocks" and early bloomers who aged quickly and not nearly as well as me, could still draw on all the good and bad capers of their past. I have nothing.
I'll sit up late at night after the family is at bed, listen to this song, and ponder if that girl in high school had said "yes" 3 decades ago.
@talkaboutsongs Sometimes, as cruel as it sounds, some people only fall in love to leave. We live in quite a shallow world (although I think it's getting deeper, more intellectual, less materialistic) but the popular won't always have the upper hand in life, and the down & outers won't always be down & out. The tide turns in life.
@talkaboutsongs Sometimes, as cruel as it sounds, some people only fall in love to leave. We live in quite a shallow world (although I think it's getting deeper, more intellectual, less materialistic) but the popular won't always have the upper hand in life, and the down & outers won't always be down & out. The tide turns in life.