Lonely Boy
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I was looking at Greeblemonkey’s blog the other day, and she had a song from her youth up there, which was about eleventy-billion (thanks Nance) times cooler than this song. But this is, indeed, a song from my youth. (Not teen youth, but kid youth, just to be clear.) A song that for some inexplicable reason is on my iPod, and any time I dare push shuffle while listening in the car, it comes on. I hate this song. Really. I mean, listen to the stupid lyrics…this kid’s life is ruined, and why? Because his parents had another child. That’s right, he lost his only child status, and became a ‘lonely boy’. Loser. I picture him ending up in the arms of prostitutes and really needy women, looking for “the love he had lost in that earlier time…”
Which made me wonder, slightly more deepish in my thoughts, how many folks out there have everything they want and need in this life, and yet, wander around, lost and lonely, and looking for things that we perceive that we have lost, but really are probably still there, right in front of us?
9 Comments
Crum
I always considered Andrew Gold as a wannabe Billy Joel. Never got into his music at all. But then I probably would not have listened very closely to the lyrics. I wonder is that a guy thing? My wife and daughter know the lyrics to all their favorite tunes. I uh, well, don’t.
How many tunes, books and essays have been written over the ages about this very human tendency? One of the few songs whose lyrics I know by heart sums it up well. David Bromberg’s “Someone Else’s Blues”. If my copy n paste abilities are up to snuff- try here > http://www.last.fm/music/David+Bromberg/_/Someone+Else's+Blues
Ted
After reading your post, I went in search of Andrew Gold info, and our friends at Wikipedia wrote that he has two younger sisters, was a noted session player, and, of course, wrote and performed the hit, “Thank You For Being a Friend”– which is probably more annoying than “Lonely Boy.”
J
Ted, he had TWO younger sisters? Maybe this song is about him? 😉
Crum, I haven’t heard that song. Sadly, this computer doesn’t have speakers, but I’ll try later on another computer that does.
Autumn's Mom
I actually have this on mine as well. I recognized the tune from my childhood and downloaded it. Then walking one day I heard the lyrics. Yikes!
Wanderlust Scarlett
Probably most of the people that we know think that they are lost, or feel that way. We live in a society that is trained to believe that we will never have everything we need and want, that more and new and bigger is better.
Be happy with who we are and what we have? Are you kidding? No one would believe it… not in the U.S.
I’m almost on a roll here, I may have to blog about this.
Grrr.
Good subject though!!
Scarlett & Viaggiatore
Starshine
Eleventy-billion sounds like a great expression from your youth, too! I love it and want to copy it!
J
Seems like I’ve heard eleventy-billion somewhere, but most recently I co-opted it from Nance. She’s hilarious.
Karen MEG
J, you’re cracking me up with this… “Loser”. So funny! I remember really liking this song way back too, but I think we can be forgiven, after all we were what, 11 at the time, or something like that, right? Who listens to lyrics when you’re that age! Or maybe we would have sympathized … or maybe not, my brother is 11 years younger … or I’m getting too deep here.
And, yes, he is like a poor man’s Billy Joel. Thank you for being a friend, sap,sap,sap…
apathy lounge
That’s a song straight from my early teen years. Will you throw rocks at me if I tell you that it’s on my iTunes? Yes? Then…I was lying. It’s not.