But if you take the Maggie May lyrics literally, she has lured him away from home, and talked him into dropping out of school.
Someone who can be talked out of being in school, doesn't want to be there in the first place. He's got alternatives - playing in a band, or pool hustling. Or, hell, even though it is not stated, he could drop back into school. The young woman in "You Oughta Know" is so emotionally destroyed that she feels no alternatives, no future.
That's hurt and anger. And yeah hurt and anger at someone you are still in love with. But not amused exasperation and affection.
I find it hard to hear only hurt and anger in, "All you did was wreck my bed, and in the morning kick me in the head." Can you really tell me that, "the morning light really shows your age, but that don't bother me none, in my eyes you are everything," isn't fondness? Or at least, the level of hurt and anger are so much more benevolent as to not be paralleled in "You Oughta Know.
Huh, and most of what I hear in "You Oughta Know" is "I'm a creepy stalker person and on the whole you're probably better off without me." But then, I let these things stand on their own and don't study the back stories, so I'm probably not a well-informed consumer of art.
Something I've wondered - if you reversed the genders of "You Oughta Know," would it still work the same? Or is the song essentially a female complaint?
you'd have to change the line about "and would she have your baby, i'm sure she'd make a really excellent mother." otherwise i can see a guy having the same level of rage after a really bad breakup.
Welcome home Sean!
:: tacklehugs ::
both my car and my phone are bricks
i have two different techs this weekend
shift key and punctuation too much effort
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Next it'll be the vowels. SV YRSLF!
If the movie is set in Berlin during WWII, why is everyone speaking with an aristocratic British accent? (I'm watching The Boy In The Stripped Pajamas).
ION- After midnight, I got a bit of worker-bee in me, and moved some stuff around, unpacked one BIG box, one medium box, and 3 book boxes. Found some more hangars (whew, glad I was too lazy to go to Target today). Still haven't found my stash of blank media or cleaning bucket. But the office/guest room is looking a bit more room-ish, and less storage warehouse. Progress, right?
