I've been listening to a lot of music lately. I set my ipod to alphabetical by artist, and I'm about halfway through at this point. I have some stuff on there that I've never heard before. Such as my "free download of the week". Well, I'm in the "J"s and Jaguar Wright's, "Let Me Be The One" came up. I can't believe songs like this get made. Granted, it's not nearly as bad as the Blackeyed Peas, "Lovely Lady Lumps". However, it makes me cringe in the same way.

Below I will list a section of the lyrics for you to enjoy. But before that, know that I had just been listening to the Indigo Girls. They have some nice poetry and imagery. Such as, from the first song of theirs I ever heard, "Ghost":

"Though I see your face before me
It would launch a thousand ships
Bring your heart back to my isle
As the sand beneath me slips.
As I burn up in your presence
And I know now how it feels
To be weakend like Achilles
With you always at my heels..."

Now, maybe I am partial to this song b/c at the time I was 18 and trying to get over the first boy I ever fell in love with and I really identified with the story here. Loving someone, not being with them, then making up this perfect relationship and turning them into this ideal that doesn't exist. Or, perhaps it was the fact that in my Latin class we were studying Greek mythology, and there aren't usually a lot of Greek references in modern lyrics. Whatever the case may be, here are the promised lyrics that make me sad:

"When your troubles smoke like chronic,
Let me be your gin and tonic.
When your temper's (something indistinguishable)
Let me be your gasoline
When water's on your brow
Pick me up I'll be your towel
All I wanna be is everything you need.
As long as you just let me...
Let me be the one.
Let me be the one.
We could have some fun (some fun)
If you would just let me be
Let me be your girl
I'll give you the world (the world)

I could be the pain in your neck
But I'd rather be your good sex
I could be an argument
But I'd rather be your heaven sent
I could be your alimony
But I'd rather be your matrimony
All you need to know is what my actions show
And that's that I love you"

I'm not saying this to be judgemental. I mean, someone wrote these lyrics for a reason. They were moved to do so. I'm just saying, for my personal taste, no thank you.

Ah, John Marovich. Sometimes I wonder what you are up to.