166: You Can Look at the Menu...

166. "No One Is to Blame" by Howard Jones {#4; 4/86} [iTunes? Yes]

     GOOD                                                                BAD
Looking at menu                                                  Can't eat
Feeling the cushions                                             Can't have a seat
Dipping foot in the pool                                       Can't have a swim
Building a mansion                                              Can't live in it
You're the fastest runner                                       Not allowed to win
Seeing the summit                                                Can't reach it
The last piece of the puzzle                                  Can't make it fit
Doctor says you're cured                                      Still feel the pain
Aspiration: Cloud                                                 Hope: Drain

With "Eleanor Rigby," I just finished talking about the "lonely songs." Well, I used to consider this my "song for unrequited love."

You say: Unrequited? How can it be unrequited? The lyrics clearly state "And you want her, and she wants you." Sure sounds requited to me!

Well, the thing is, in my mind all of the unrequited loves I had over the years all felt the same way about me that I did about them, they just couldn't act on it. Who were these "unrequited loves" of mine? Well, over my extended time in singledom there were quite a few. Some were real women, some were celebrity women, some were fictional women, and some were imaginary women. (Sorry, but I won't further embarrass myself or any of the women by actually naming names.) (Except for Angela Lansbury, because I don't think she'd mind.)

Anyway, this is yet another song that would have been much higher on the list seven years ago than it is now. (It really is an awesome song. I like Howard Jones. His "Things Can Only Get Better" is also a pretty good honorable mention candidate for the HondoJoe Top 200.)

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