I listened to "For the roses" for the first time a month ago. It's become quite
an obsession ever since. And I have to admit that the line: "Oh baby I can't
seem to make it with you socially" is one of the very few troubling passages I
encounter in a record that I've found unusually easy to love. I would blame the
difficulty partly on the high, penetrating "baby" but essentially I would blame
it on the "socially" which to me sounds... journalistic, or too technical -out
of place in such a lyrical, melancholy song. On the other hand, I think that
line completes the story she's narrating, so eventhough I don't enjoy it, I
would describe it as necessary.
There goes another very useful post of mine.
Mariana,
sleepy and cold in Argentina
