In 1960, my Mom and her sister were in a piano bar in Culver City, CA. At one point a young male singer came on and sang Errol Garner’s “Misty”:
Can’t you see
I’m as helpless as a kitten up a tree…
Mom later told my brother, my sister, and me about this, particularly because the young man was a double amputee (cf. Lt. Dan in Forrest Gump). She said the singer’s choice of “Misty” was, because of the opening lyrics at least, “an obvious play for sympathy,” to quote her.
Does that sound cruel, or just a poor choice of words?
The opening line is Look at me,
It sounds uneducated and mean, IMO.
Except that the rest of the song makes it clear the singer is head over heels in love.
I guess he was settling for head over stumps
oh god i’m going to hell for that one…
Bravo good sir.
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
You’ll be in good company.
There is such a thing as reading way too much into the insignificant. It’s just a song.