27. White Town - Your Woman

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Итак, технические причины, о которых я не буду подробно распространяться и которые мешали мне более-менее активно писать осмысленные записи, устранены, и я продолжаю с того, на чем остановилась.

В последнее время я то и дело ненадолго влюбляюсь в самые разные вещи и явления. Так, в ноябре я чуть было не влюбилось в ноябрь — настолько он был чудесен. Остановило меня лишь осознание того, что рано или поздно ноябрь закончится и разобьет мне сердце. В первых числах января я была влюблена в свою квартиру: ходила по ней кругами и с каждым кругом влюблялась все сильнее. А числа с пятнадцатого я начала влюбляться в свой телефон. Не все время, а только по ночам: часа в два-три я выключаю компьютер, ложусь в постель, беру книгу, надеваю наушники и погружаюсь в чтение, а радиоволны то и дело выносят к моим берегам новые, старые неизвестные или просто позабытые песни.

Текст

Just tell me what you've got to say to me,
I've been waiting for so long to hear the truth,
It comes as no surprise at all you see,
So cut the crap and tell me that we're through.

Now I know your heart, I know your mind,
You don't even know you're being unkind,
So much for all your highbrow Marxist ways,
Just use me up and then you walk away,
Boy you can't play me that way.

Well I guess what you say is true,
I could never be the right kind of girl for you,
I could never be your woman.

When I saw my best friend yesterday,
She said she never liked you from the start,
Well me, I wish that I could claim the same,
But you always knew you held my heart.
And you're such a charming handsome man,
Now I think I finally understand,
Is it in your genes?, I don't know,
But I'll soon find out, that's for sure,
Why did you play me this way?.

Well I guess what you say is true,
I could never be the right kind of girl for you,
I could never be your woman.

Well I guess what they say is true,
I could never spend my life with a man like you,
I could never be your woman.

Несколько забавных отзывов
У меня вопросов по тексту не возникло: я сразу решила, что это мужчина поет от лица женщины. В чем проблема-то? Встречается еще и не такое. Но все равно полезла почитать, что думают люди. Много смеялась
А: Is it just me or does the artist really really not sound like a woman?
B: I thought it was a guy to. maybe thats why he can never be the woman? hahaha...
C: I thought it was the singer reading a Dear John letter his girlfriend sent him. That would explain why it looks like he's speaking to a man and referring to himself as a woman. Anyway, I guess that's just the way I listened to it.
D: oh god i love this song...but yeah i don't get it either
E: Gorgeous song, whatever it's about.

Информация к размышлению
С официального сайта White Town
Question. I love 'Your Woman' *BUT* what is it about??? Are you a man/woman/transsexual?
Answer. When I wrote it, I was trying to write a catchy pop song that had more than one perspective. Although it's written in the first person that viewpoint isn't the same as it may sound. So, these are *some* of the things it's about:
Being a member of an orthodox Trotskyist / Marxist movement (as I was for three years in the 80s).
Being a straight guy in love with a lesbian (ditto).
Being a gay guy in love with a straight man.
Being a straight girl in love with a lying, two-timing, fake-ass Marxist.
The hypocrisy that results when love and lust get mixed up with highbrow ideals :-)

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