Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Lay All Your Love on Me

It seems like everyday we go around, whether we are already in love or not, and point out the qualities that we want and/or don't want in a lover, a boyfriend/girlfriend, a husband/wife. We spend our days searching for and seeing the things we think will make us ultimately happy. We read books, we watch movies, we listen to our friends tell us about their ultimate happiness they were finally able to find. We dissect these things and slowly, over years of practice, years of guessing and checking, we make a list of what we NEED to survive in contentment with another person. I have that list, in the back of my mind, everyday. It unconsciously drives and moves my everyday decisions. It tells me to either move closer or to create distance between myself and other people. It tells me what I should or shouldn't love. WHO I can survive loving, WHO I can't survive loving. What will work and what won't work. This list will crumble the wall I have placed around myself...or it will enforce it. As you change and grow, the list can change and grow. Things you wanted when you were in college will not always translate to what you want when you are working in a 9-5 job. With each new person you meet, date, love and heartbreak over, you change and so does your list. And somethings that change, can never change back to the what they were before. It's a life lesson that I know deeply. Somethings that break, can never be put back together again in the exact same way they were before. Not saying that they can't be put back together in some form, it just won't be the same form as before. Because by that point, your list has changed and there is no going back.

I picked this song to, for one, keep in the musical vein, but also because this song gives a good example of part of my list. It gives a good example of most women's list, I would dare to venture. It reminds me of the beginning of a new relationship; all passion, irrationality and raw emotion. However, in this musical's context, it comes right before a wedding. We all would like to see all that passion, etc to continue on past the honeymoon stage. It seems right that way.


Lay All Your Love on Me


SKY

I wasn't jealous before we met
Now every man that I see is a potential threat
And I'm possessive, it isn't nice
You've heard me saying that smoking was my only vice
But now it isn't true
Now everything is new
And all I've learned
Has overturned
I beg of you

SOPHIE

Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me

It was like shooting a sitting duck
A little small talk, a smile and baby I was stuck
I still don't know what you've done with me
A grown-up woman should never fall so easily
I feel a kind of fear
When I don't have you near
Unsatisfied
I skip my pride
I beg you dear

SKY

Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me

Don't go sharing your devotion
Lay all your love on me

SOPHIE

I've had a few little love affairs
They didn't last very long and they've been pretty scarce

SKY

I used to think that was sensible
It makes the truth even more incomprehensible

SOPHIE

'Cause everything is new
And everything is you
And all I've learned
Has overturned
What can I do?

Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go sharing your devotion
Lay all your love on me



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