Flashback Friday #208

Our Song


Greetings, One & all. I know you've all been to the place where I'm heading in this post. You've met a dreamy person and through the haze of love, a song comes  on the radio that you tab as "Our song". This post will explain the significant differences between what Toni and I considered as "Our song".

In my previous "Flashback Friday", you got to see the Polaroid snapshot of me on my 16th birthday. I was holding two albums that my folks had bought me for my birthday. During my "Dark years" I was big into Rock & Roll and Pop music. I loved the "Get the Knack" album (by The Knack). But the Kenny Rogers album? Country? What was that all about? Here's the explanation.

While riding in the car with Mom, she would let me tune in to WNCI FM (our Pinto had an AM/FM radio, one of the first cars we owned that did). Dad wasn't so kind. When he drove, it was always WMNI AM (old Country & Western). But I digress. While driving with Mom one day, the song "You Decorated My Life" by Kenny Rogers came on. It was a "crossover" hit as it was popular with the Pop crowd as well as the C&W crowd. I told her that Toni had decided that was "our song", therefore she purchased the Kenny Rogers album for my birthday. Here are the lyrics:

All my life was a paper once plain, pure and white
Till you moved with your pen changin' moods now and then
Till the balance was right
Then you added some music, ev'ry note was in place
And anybody could see all the changes in me by the look on my face

And you decorated my life, created a world where dreams are a apart
And you decorated my life by paintin' your love all over my heart
You decorated my life

Like a rhyme with no reason in an unfinished song
There was no harmony life meant nothin' to me, until you came along
And you brought out the colors, what a gentle surprise
Now I'm able to see all the things life can be shinin' soft in your eyes

And you decorated my life, created a world where dreams are a part
And you decorated my life by paintin' your love all over my heart
You decorated my life

Toni may have considered that as "our song", but I didn't. In my mind, our song was Billy Joel's "You May Be Right". Here are those lyrics:

Friday night I crashed your party
Saturday I said I'm sorry
Sunday came and trashed me out again
I was only having fun
Wasn't hurting any one
And we all enjoyed the weekend for a change

I've been stranded in the combat zone
I walked through Bedford Stuy alone
Even rode my motorcycle in the rain
And you told me not to drive
But I made it home alive
So you said that only proves that I'm insane

You may be right
I may be crazy
But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for
Turn out the light
Don't try to save me
You may be wrong for all I know
But you may be right

Remember how I found you there
Alone in your electric chair
I told you dirty jokes until you smiled
You were lonely for a man
I said take me as I am
Cause you might enjoy some madness for a while

Now think of all the years you tried to
Find someone to satisfy you
I might be as crazy as you say
If I'm crazy then it's true
That it's all because of you
And you wouldn't want me any other way

You may be right
I may be crazy
But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for
It's too late to fight
It's too late to change me
You may be wrong for all I know
But you may be right

You may be right
I may be crazy
But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for
Turn out the light
Don't try to save me
You may be wrong for all I know
But you may be right

You may be wrong but you may be right
You may be wrong but you may be right

It's funny, Mom bought me the Kenny Rogers album, but not the Bill Joel. Could it be that Mom was taking sides in the disagreement?