"He Stopped Loving Her Today" is an overrated song. Really kind of silly, if you think about it.
Yeah, we've all been through those times, usually in our late teens and early 20s, where we swear that we are so broken by rejection, our hearts will never work again. Then we go out and get drunk and stupid with the next one. This is the natural order. We wouldn't want to live in a world where it wasn't. (I'd like to proudly state for the record that alcohol did not play a part in my happy little marriage.)
And yet -- according to "He stopped Loving Her Today" -- any time Bob's friends suggested beer and dominos (or beer and fishing, or fishing and dominos), he'd say no, because "my heart's too dern beat up." Even when he was 50.
To which I say: What a royal pain in the ass. They probably could not get Bob in the ground fast enough. That funeral would have turned into one wild freakin' conga line to the gravesite.
*I don't know why I've been attacking old country songs lately. I'll move on.
2 comments:
Try a little "Yesterday's Wine" on for size. Can't go wrong with the Merle / George combo.
Blasphemy!
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