Reinterpreting the classics

[yendi]

What if what Bryan Adams is really singing in "Run to You" is:

But that'd change if she ever found out about "you and I"?

So his wife wouldn't care that he's having a relationship with someone else (in fact, might be aware of it and be supportive), but she's a stickler for grammar and tends towards prescriptivism, and is appalled at the notion of using a subject word like "I" as an object.

Makes total sense to me.

Comments

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

I don't have anything constructive to say here, but LJ still hasn't got a 'like' button.

[yendi]

:-)

(And worse, the damned "add to memories" button looks like it should be a "like" button.)

My pet peeve as well:

[avivasedai.livejournal.com]

"Another shooting star goes by, and in the night the silence speaks to you and Ime" - fixing Survivor. I cannot sing that lyric along to the music, it irks me so much.

Re: My pet peeve as well:

[yendi]

I actually can't place that song, I'm afraid!

[aedifica]

Yissss.

[felisdemens.livejournal.com]

This is valid.