I was a bit of a butthead to my wife last night. Not a lot but enough to really piss her off. I apologized for how I acted and she apologized for blowing it all out of proportion. Everything is OK back on the ranch.
However, I’d like to do a little something for her. I once burned a CD for her of love songs and songs that meant a lot to her and showed how much I love her. Now I’d like to make a CD of apology/I’m sorry/ type songs. Can anyone think of songs where the singer is expressing how he is sorry about being an asshole and wants forgiveness?
Please, nothing about cheating! I was just being rude last night, not fooling around. Thanks for your suggestions.
I Awoke in Iowa Iowa Apology Song, in which he apologizes for I Awoke in Iowa, by citing such wonders as the Cedar Rapids Art Museum and the West Bend sod house. I Owe You an Apology (with MP3) in which he apologizes for the Iowa Apology Song, and for every other song he’s ever written.
I once dated a guy who screwed up frequently. Okay, he wasn’t a guy so much as he was a walking, talking, asshole. He was always very appologetic after the fact, and often sent me roses to indicate the depths of his repentance.
Then he’d be an asshole again a day later.
Now I hate roses.
If I were to receive a cd like the one you are proposing, it would irritate the crap out of me every time I listened to it. In fact I probably wouldn’t listen to it more than once. It would only remind me of the ugly incident.
I don’t mean to be a downer - I’m enjoying the song suggestions. Just my $0.02.
Oh, I just remembered a great one. Title of the Song by DaVinci’s Notebook.
*Renunciation of my past insensitive behavior
Promise of my reformation
Reassurance that you still are foremeost in my thoughts, now,
Need for instructions how to gain your trust again
Request for reconciliation
Listing of the numerouss tasks that I’d perform
Of physical and emotional compensation
Title of the song
Naive expression of love
Reluctance to accept that you are gone
Request to turn back time
And rectify my wrongs
Repetition of the title of the song*
Yes, those are actual lyrics. If I was doing a CD of apology songs, I’d have to start or end it with this one.
U2’s song “Sweetest Thing” (Youtube link to video) was written by Bono as an apology to his wife Ali Hewson for forgetting her birthday during The Joshua Tree sessions. In the video, the phrase “I’m sorry” (and some variations) can be spotted. Cameo appearances in the video include Riverdance, Boyzone, Steve Collins, the Artane Boys Band, the Chippendales, U2 members, and, at the very start of the video, Alison Hewson, Bono’s wronged wife .
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