Okay, first, any cracks about my taste in music are NOT ALLOWED!!!
All right, I really, REALLY love this song-the Juice Newton, version.
However, I just want to analyse what it’s all about:
Is the singer saying, “hey, let’s have a fling-no serious thing-but just treat me well, and that’s enough for me?”
Or is it more bittersweet-that she DOES love the person, but wants him enough to get him however she can…
Or something else?
Love Juice. Love this song.
That said, I always took it to be a one-night-stand thing.
Like, when the guy wakes up, she won’t be there-- an “angel.” Maybe even kind of tongue in cheek sort of.
Happy
I hate both Juice and “Angel,” but my best friend in high school loved it. After listening to it many more times than I’d like to remember, I determined that she wanted him forever, but would settle for a one night stand, as long as he would “Just brush my teeth before you leave me.” Heh.
I love this song too.
I always took it to be bittersweet. Listening to the lyrics makes it kinda hard to tell but for me the music breaks the tie, it’s got a bittersweet feel to it. I think she’s basically saying I’ll have you however I can but if you feel you need to leave in the morning, don’t feel too guilty about it.
So, she’s not a hooker? Because that’s how I have always interpeted it…
[hijack]did you know Jon Voight’s brother wrote this-and Wild Thing?!?!][/hijack]
Anyways, I always thought it was a woman who was desperately in love with the guy, but knew he couldn’t (or wouldn’t) commit, so she’s willing to settle for one night with him, and just wants him to call her an angel in the morning, even though he’s just going to leave and not come back.
I always thought it was very bittersweet.
A common mistake. Juice Newton is a hooker, but the song isn’t about a hooker. Easy to get confused.
I go back to the original Merilee Rush version and I have to disagree. To me the song has always been about a teenager’s belief that she was being sexually liberated, although somewhere deep down she knew she was being taken advantage of.
I know that’s really heavy for a three-minute pop song, but the late 60s (when the song was written) were full of songs with really heavy meanings.
Well, come to think of it, the second interpretation, specially as further expounded upon by singular1, is either too depressing or too infuriating, or both.
I prefer to see it as, rather than an actual one-night scenario, the character using it as an allegory of an entire relationship, saying that she knows that it’s dollars to doughnuts that there will be no permanence and he’ll go on his way some day, but is willing to accept that as long as he treats her right while it lasts.
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I still say it’s a one night stand.
But “Angel” aside, what’s the meaning of “Love’s Been a Little Bit Hard on Me”?
I say it’s about a zoophilic affair gone horribly awry.
Happy
after reading the lyrics, thank you lendervedder, i think that the song is about a woman who is taking the chance of “going all the way” to “show her love” to a man who may or may not love her. she is telling him that what ever the morning may bring she will not regret what happened that night and if it never happens again, it will be a treasured moment as long as he gently leaves.
it seems to be a rather young girl perhaps her first sexual encounter, trying to be grown up and mature, not to “scare off” the object of her love.
I have to agree with Singular1. I think that the lyrics bear that out as well. There’ll be no strings to bind your hands not if my love can’t bind your heart That seems to be pretty clear…
I have no idea what the song means, but I like Nina Simone’s version.