Another man has caught my eyes (and my ears) in a little secondary crush. Same age, same nape curls, same changeable blue eyes, same fondness for stretched out T-shirts.
How to tell Richard… how to tell him without hurting his feelings…
There’s been another man that I’ve needed and I’ve loved
But that doesn’t mean I love you less
And he knows he can’t possess me and he knows he never will
There’s just this empty place inside of me that only he can fillTorn between two lovers, feelin’ like a fool
Lovin’ both of you is breakin’ all the rules
Torn between two lovers, feelin’ like a fool
Lovin’ you both is breakin’ all the rulesYou mustn’t think you’ve failed me
Just because there’s someone else
You were the first real love I ever had
And all the things I ever said
I swear they still are true
For no one else can have the part of me I gave to you
And the secondary crush is .,,
Very sweet post! My side crush is Keanu
Not strong and my heart belongs to Richard but still., 🤗❤️👍👏🌺
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Herbs figured it out! I’ll do a fuller post about him if/when I ever have time.
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Sue she did!! Thank goodness. I was like Rob Thomas? I thought he was younger than the Armitage by a few years!! I’m happy for you especially since he is a musical talent.
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“Herba” I mean. 😊
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Sue I thought you were giving her a nickname very sweet Herba rocks!! 🤗😘🌺
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Ah, Rob Thomas. I really love Matchbox Twenty and a lot of his solo music too but know nearly nothing about the man
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Oh gosh I missed that completely! Thank you Herba,
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You got it! Me too on Matchbox Twenty, although I never owned a CD or anything. I’ve been reading a bit about him, so I’ll try to post something soon.
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I listen to a lot of 70s radio; I wonder why we don’t hear this song more?
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I used to love the song and it seems I still know all the lyrics! I didn’t know it was written by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary. I think on oldies radio we hear more like the Eagles, LED Zeppelin, etc, not so much the sweet sounding ballads.
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I think you’re right — and also that oldies radio shifts with the times — the sweet spot seems to be about 1978 now and eventually it will be all 80s, I suppose.
re: cheating: I still occasionally look at pictures of Aidan Turner smiling. The problem is that I can’t really get into his interviews. His patterns of speech / thought are a serious turnoff.
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This is the first guy that’s kind of tugged at my heart strings in a while, rather than just being nice to look at.
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Sue that is so sweet! I wish I had a singer that was my go to guy to pick me up. I have more genres of songs!
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the struggle is real 😉 I know nothing of Rob’s personality but I’ve always thought he was a good looking man with a killer singing voice; a combination that is hard to resist! you’re only human 🙂
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Well exactly! And how long does Richard really expect me to wait for him? 😀 I’ll try to do another post with more soon, if I’m ever not at work.
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I think a little bit of cheating is definitely ok. Especially as Rob is fulfilling a slightly different need. (I had never really heard of him, btw. )
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Yes, he’s singing me to a happy place during my work stress and the stress of my son’s last assignments for high school!
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That’s actually a very worthy reason.
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🙂 Just for you!
tammy wynette stand by your man – YouTube
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Squirrel, brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is a great song and I am not a country fan!!
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Now that made me smile! “And show the world you love him.” I definitely do that!
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I was fascinated at the very first listening. But when one constantly comes back “to look hard” at the song lyrics, that proves its high worthy. This song will remain one of my ten best .
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This song is indelibly associated (for me) with the 1992 US presidential election / Clinton campaign.
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Aujourd’hui, personne ne chanterait plus un tel hymne à la gloire du couple éternel. Les temps ont changé. Qui tolèrerait encore de pardonner ainsi, les écarts de conduite de son conjoint (quelque soit le sexe ou le genre des protagonistes)?
A noter: l’ironie de la date de création de cette chanson: 1968.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouvements_sociaux_de_1968_dans_le_monde
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I should clarify: at the time I loved how Hilary Clinton cited it (critically) — to say she was doing her own thing. That came back to bite her in later years but when she said it, I was like, yes, Hilary, you tell us! and I still pretty much feel that way. (I never liked the song, even before that, but she gave me support in my dislike.)
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Thank you to explain me that. Instructif!
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Different times, though, when she and Billy Sherrill wrote it. I think that the relationship between the sexes in marriage (in general) was on the cusp of changing. Old traditional roles being left behind and the liberation movement pushing for change. But what we saw on TV and in country music at the time was often clinging to the old attitudes. I don’t think Tammy actually believed the philosophy anyway, given that she was married something like five times. I think it was just a song.
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Regardless of your true pertinent comments, Servetus and Sue, it was funny to listen to it, while pointing your article. Have a nice “fin de semaine”!
(I don’t like French people using the word Weekend. So as a wink, with fun, in an English /American blog I write “fin de semaine”.)
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Squirrel I like that term, going in the memory bank and into the word journal!!
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I’m always a bit surprised by which English terms sneak into other languages. “Le weekend” doesn’t really sound good in French (something about the “ee” vowel, I think). It was also a word resisted in English when it appeared — seen as lower class slang and for a while in the early 20th c. you could tell someone’s social class by who used it.
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Il y aurait tant à dire sur le sujet. Souvent les spécialistes en linguistique parlent des mots étrangers qui sont communément employés, aujourd’hui, sans discerner leur origine. (ex: anorak, atoll, avocat, banane, cacao, camarade, charlatan, chocolat, crabe, fjord, landau, marsouin, mohair, paquebot, pantalon, pedigree, polder, pyjama, robot, sirop, ski, tabac, tomate, tsunami, vague, wagon, yaourt … Quand un nom existe, à mon avis, il faut le préférer, pour conserver la richesse de la langue. Les canadiens français du Québec et leur mots très fleuris, sont pris en exemple. Mais il y a de moins en moins de francophones à travers le monde. Même au Japon, où la langue maternelle prime, l’anglais perce. Sans compter toutes les découvertes actuelles, où les mots anglais ou les abréviations y sont privilégiées.
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What would the higher class folks say instead? Or is it that the concept didn’t really exist for them?
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I think it’s that the upper classes didn’t have a weekend — it’s a concept associated with factory workers and used by them (in the UK and US).
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That makes sense.
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Just for clarity (and not that I mind), it’s actually an English/Canadian blog. 😊 I’m actually from Quebec originally, and with a French maiden name. BUT, living in Ontario for 29 years and Vancouver now for 18, I have to admit that my French language skills are very rusty! Fin de semaine definitely sounds much nicer than weekend, though.
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Merci pour vos précisions.
Merci d’utiliser ce terme, donc bonne fin de semaine!
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À toi aussi, Squirrel!
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merci
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Yeah, like a lot of popular music this was pitched at the fantasy lives of her audience. She was a good singer.
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Squirrel well Melania is “Standing by her man” but I agree with you…
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Melania est l’actuelle archétype de toutes ses femmes d’homme politique qui restent à leur côté, malgré tout… Quelques-unes ont pris la poudre d’escampette, (quand elles en étaient capables) je félicite ses dernières.
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I think for Wynette it was an extremely personal and emotional song! Maybe that is why it is so touching!!!
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Ses yeux en sont la preuve.
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