Nice article.
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Originally posted by Auburn Annie:
Not handsome enough to be a womanizer or dangerous enough to be a wayfaring stranger
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Can't say I necessarily agree with the sentence above,
but I very much believe the following:
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For Lovin' Me" is not a kind song, but the listener develops sympathy for the caddish narrator, whose selfish, uncompromising ways cut him off from ever truly receiving compassion and comfort. "Everything you had is gone, as you can see/ That's what you get for loving me," he sings dismissively to his naive lover, but the subtext is that's what I get for being an asshole.
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No matter how "cruel" or "cold" some of his lyrics seem, I always feel an undercurrent of regret or, sometimes, a kind of defense mechanism kicking in.
I admit, I always like to see the bright side and always want to believe he's a softy, just putting on a tough guy exterior in some of the harsher "love" songs.