Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
shoot. I just looked over her top 10 and nothing quite fits.
She seems to spend more time kicking bad matches to the curb than getting hung up on them.
How about Sheena Easton's "Almost Over You"? (I rather like "Strut", which almost fits, but I think it finishes as a break-up song.)
I like the Easton--I shall have to add it.
I also added 2
I keep forgetting--Michael MacDonald
I love the way you lie--Eminmen (though that one is more destructive than I was originally thinking and may come off)
Some Sarah McLachlan options: "Stupid" and "Fallen" (though I think the latter isn't enough about the object of her affections).
What A Fool Believes--Doobie Brothers
I'm not sure this fits. The rest are "I can't stay away from you" songs (which, incidentally, was a song by the Miami Sound Machine that fits). "What a Fool Believes" is a third-person POV. Also, I don't think the man in the song believes that the woman is bad for him -- he just carries a torch for her and doesn't realize that she has moved on.
Maybe the Miracles, "You've Really Got a Hold on Me," or Lesley Gore, "Maybe I Know."
I'm not sure this fits. The rest are "I can't stay away from you" songs (which, incidentally, was a song by the Miami Sound Machine that fits). "What a Fool Believes" is a third-person POV
I see the point, and it definitely is a different POV, but I included it because it's a variation on the same basic theme, to my mind anyway, just seen from the outside.
Use me is sort of the same--everyone else is telling him the woman is no good, but he doesn't care.
In the same vein, how about Percy Sledge's "When A Man Loves A Woman"? Oh, and the Offspring's "Get A Job".
Pete Townsend, "Secondhand Love"
Joni Mitchell, "A Case of You" and "Help Me"
Oh! Ok, whether this song fits is open to interpretation, but I think the tone is right. Plus, it's simply a phenomenal song. One of the few songs that grabbed me to the point that I still remember where I was the first time I heard it. The Whitlams, "No Aphrodisiac". [link]
(It is also one of Ryan's favourite songs, because we fail at parenting. He also likes Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt", and it is quite funny to hear this incredulous voice occasionally pipe up from the back seat with "My sweetest friend?!?")
Another one: Beyonce, "If I Were A Boy".
Wham, "Everything She Wants".