Feelings -- to -- No One is to Blame -- to -- Beat It... Oh my! Cheaper than therapy...

So, I need to choose 3 songs that at one point in my life I connected to.... so here goes.  Can't write too much 'cause I"m OVERLOADED by end-of-semester.

Ironically, the first song I'm going to choose is a super-cheesy song.  I'm only choosing it because I think the story is kind of ironic and funny really as to why I connected to it in one point in my life.  It's the cheesy song from the 70s?  called "Feelings."  I was living in Hong Kong at the time and had one of my first real jobs: teaching English in Hong Kong.  My boyfriend and I went to dinner at a revolving restaurant which at the time was super-posh for our shoestring budget.  I was wearing this horrible brown dress that I wore all the time in my classrooms...  my intern's budget didn't handle name brands.  At any rate, at one point my boyfriend waved over a Filipino band and then he got down on one knee and pulled out a ring.  The people at tables around us looked over... smiles abound.  And then the band started playing..... a romantic love song??  Nope.  They started playing, "You've lost that loving feeling."  My soon-to-be-husband started waving his hands and saying NOOOO not that song... something else.  So then they started playing the cheesy love song called "Feelings."  Not the most romantic choice for a marriage proposal.  But hey, sometimes you gotta roll with it:

Feelings lyrics
Feelings
Nothing more than feelings,
Trying to forget my feelings of love

Teardrops,
Rolling down on, my face
Trying to forget my, feelings of love

Feelings,
For all my life I'll feel it
I’ll wish I've never met you, girl
You'll never come again

Feelings,
Wo-o-o feelings
Wo-o-o feelings
Again in my heart

Okay, second song.  I'm choosing this just because I really used to love Howard Jones.  He actually came to Dickinson College in Carlisle and may have been one of my first real concerts?  I can't remember.  It may have been INXS.  At any rate, I love this song....  It's called "No One is to Blame."

No One Is To Blame lyrics
You can look at the menu
but you just can't eat
You can feel the cushion
but you can't have a seat
You can dip your foot in the pool
but you can't have a swim
You can feel the punishment
but you can't commit the sin

(chorus)
And you want her
And she wants you
We want everyone
And you want her
And she wants you
No one, no one
No one ever is to blame

You can build a mansion
but you just can't live in it
You're the fastest runner
but you're not allowed to win
Some break the rules
and live to count the cost
[- From :http://www.elyrics.net/read/h/howard-jones-lyrics/no-one-is-to-blame-lyrics.html -]
The insecurity is the
thing that won't get lost

(chorus)

You can see the summit
but you can't reach it
It's the last piece of the puzzle
but you just can't make it fit
Doctor says you're cured
but you still feel the pain
Aspirations in the clouds
but your hopes go down the drain

And you want her
And she wants you (wants you)
We want everyone
And you want her
And she wants you (wants you)
No one, no one
No one ever is to blame
No one ever is to blame
No one ever is to blame

Finally, I guess I have to put a song from the Thriller album.  I think that was the first record (yes "record"... not download and not CD) I purchased.  I must have been in 6th grade?  Again, not sure.  I do remember that my older brother had purchased it and wanted to be the ONLY one in the family who owned it.  So I had to hide the record between my mattress for fear that he might discover it.  I played it on my record player with my friends only when he wasn't home.

Beat It lyrics
Michael Jackson Cover

They told him don't you ever come around here
Don't wanna see your face, you better disappear
The fire's in their eyes and their words are really clear
So beat it, just beat it

You better run, you better do what you can
Don't wanna see no blood, don't be a macho man
You wanna be tough, better do what you can
So beat it, but you wanna be bad

Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated
Showin' how funky and strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right
Just beat it, beat it
Just beat it, beat it
Just beat it, beat it
Just beat it, beat it

They're out to get you, better leave while you can
Don't wanna be a boy, you wanna be a man
You wanna stay alive, better do what you can
So beat it, just beat it

You have to show them that you're really not scared
You're playin' with your life, this ain't no truth or dare
They'll kick you, then they beat you,
Then they'll tell you it's fair
So beat it, but you wanna be bad

Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated
Showin' how funky and strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right

Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated
Showin' how funky and strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right
{ From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/a/anoop-desai-lyrics/beat-it-lyrics.html }

Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated
Showin' how funky and strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right
Just beat it, beat it
Beat it, beat it, beat it

Beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated
Showin' how funky and strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or who's right

Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated
Showin' how funky and strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right

Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated
Showin' how funky and strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right
Just beat it, beat it
Beat it, beat it, beat it

Beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated
Showin' how funky and strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or who's right

Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated
Showin' how funky and strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right

Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated
Showin' how funky and strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right

Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated
Just beat it, beat it
Beat it, beat it, beat it

 

 

So I wrote this pretty quickly but does it tell me something that I go from "Feelings," to "No one is to Blame," to "Beat It."  Maybe that's the true story!