When I first started the Song of the Day thing almost two years ago, my wife asked me if I thought I could really write something relevant about a new song every day. Was there really that much to say?
At the time, two or three songs in, I wondered the same thing. And my initial answer was that once in awhile I wouldn’t bother writing my thoughts on the song… I’d just throw it up there and write something like “this one’s funky and you can dance to it.”
Well, all this time later I still haven’t gotten around to not saying anything about one of my songs. For better or worse, I’ve found some way to summon up at least three or four paragraphs worth of thoughts about each one. But this week I’m going to shut up and let the music do the talking.
I’ll leave it to the readers to react to the next five songs… to post your own opinions and emotions, maybe to guess why I chose each one. Or just to listen and move on. That’s up to you.
I’ll start blabbing again on Saturday. Enjoy!
Better than anything else that I’ve tried
And your love is better than ice cream
Everyone here know how to fight
And it’s a long way down
It’s a long way down
It’s a long way down to the place
Where we started from
Your love is better than chocolate
Better than anything else that I’ve tried
Oh love is better than chocolate
Everyone here knows how to cry
It’s a long way down
It’s a long way down
It’s a long way down to the place
Where we started from…
Meet Me In Montauk 
I’ve always liked this simple little song. It’s so unabashed in its sentiment. Any song that starts off “your love is better than ice cream” isn’t trying to be anything other than it absolutely is.
Still, the music is actually kind of cool. It reminds me of some of those old Cole Porter songs. Now I’m thinking maybe it deserves lyrics that are a bit less “throwaway.” Hmmm…. I’ll have to think about that.
Of course, “Our Love is Here to Stay,” a classic if ever there was one, has such sterling lyrics as “the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble
They’re only made of clay, But our love is here to stay” so maybe the simple lyrics are what makes it timeless… I don’t know.
Clay, get back here to babble – STAT!
What about the “everybody here knows how to fight/cry” lines and the “It’s a long way down to the place where we started from” chorus? Those part seem kind of at odds with the simple declaration of love in the “ice cream” lines.
I agree with Clay. This song is deceptively simple lyrically. The chorus is rather provocative. . Well, maybe not provocative, but it certainly suggests that the singer has had some very low times in her life that she is happy not to be in and hopes that the love that has lifted her will keep her away from in the future.. So while the love is better than ice cream and chocolate, the place where she had been (and where others are fighting and crying to get out of) is a dark place indeed.
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