All My Life... (Really? (redux))

I love when you're listening to a song and you catch a line that makes you stop and go: Wait... really?
Something so overstated that it makes the song impossible to take seriously, and (at least for me) devolves the whole situation into dissecting the illogicá of the line. (dance/trance/dub is the MOST famous for this)

"Meet me under shining lights, I've been waiting right here all my life"
https://soundcloud.com/krewella/alive-cash-cash-x-dj-kalkutta

This raises a whole host of things to say! First off: I am SO sorry! I had no idea you were born on a dance floor, waiting for me to come along and dance with you. Was it a rough delivery??? I mean what with all the people groovin' and grindin' and shakin' and bakin' and whatnot. It must have been chaos!
And what about the issues of being raised on a dance floor? Was it hard to make friends? Did you get in trouble for staying out late like normal kids?

And then there's always the weird, almost supernatural lines that sometimes come up in love songs where a bunch of unrealistic, sometimes inconvenient promises are made. It always makes me lose my toast when, for instance, Johnny Rzeznik says "I'll write your name across the sky, so I'm always with you."

What if I don't want everyone to know my name? What if I'm still living in the early 2000s and think that if people on the internet know my name I'll end up duct taped in the back of a black van? In mexico?

And, let's be honest, not only is the idea of someone (Especially like Johnny Rzeznik and the friendly muskrat that lives in his hair...) being always there implausible- But in some cases it would just be kinda annoying too... It doesn't matter how in love you are, do you really want your spouse/significant other/fling/other popping up out of nowhere when you're on the toilet? (Or, for the British people in our audience, IN the toilet... Don't ask me how or why...)

We're already running pretty long but just wait until we make the blog post discussing how in some songs there's reference to a secret society of mysterious suit-wearing Illuminati who try to break up romantic couples...
"We'll never let THEM tear us apart..."

Stay tuned!