Sällan studsar en termos

Fascinerande egentligen, för en herrans massa år sen köpte jag Elton Johns cd Love Songs och den har snurrat många, många varv sen dess. Han har ju varit med ett tag kan man säga och under tiden har han snickrat ihop en och annan pärla som beskriver precis vad man känner...



(...)

We've been living with sorrow, been up, down and all around
We've buried our feelings a little too deep in the ground
Stood dazed in the doorway, the king and queen of clowns
We've been flipped like a coin, both of us landing face-down

But tied to the same track, the two of us look back
At oncoming trains ahead
How many more times can we lay on the line
Watching our love hang by a thread


Hm, hittade texten till en annan låt nu som jag inte hört, men den verkar rätt intressant...

She may be lost
She may be out of bounds
All her tenderness and charms could be something
A man like me has never found
But in her woman's way
She's still a little girl
The things that she wants, the things that she needs
Oh well the choice is hers

'Cause you can't take a woman
When she doesn't want you
And you can't be a man
If you're blind to reason
Man might be strong
But true love is stronger
You gotta play it straight
When a woman doesn't want you

Her voice invites
Her eyes say more than words
But her needs and complications
Can tear away the memory of last night's girl
And if you're weak
Yeah, we're all weak sometime
The best things can wait
The best times they come
Oh, when strength is kind

'Cause you can't take a woman
When she doesn't want you
And you can't be a man
If you're blind to reason
Man might be strong
But true love is stronger
You gotta play it straight
When a woman doesn't want you

And if you can't read her
Leave her alone
And if you don't know by now
She's not someone's prize
And you can't take her home

Förutom biten i mitten där om last night's girl så stämmer den ju rätt bra.

Jag är ju inte dummare än att jag inser att loppet är kört, så man kan väl få vara lite verklighetstrogen för en gångs skull? ;-)


Som Alice Cooper skrev där 1991: I might as well be on Mars...