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Ah am so steel een luv weeth yoo
For all the anathema toward the lyrical content of
Strength Of A Woman ( a great song--imho),
listen to......
Somebody's Been Lyin'....not so much different from the former, in the sense that
Karen is singing from 'her' perspective
( "I still believe in love...", yet, "he's not here to lean on..."),
or ,
I Want You Back In My Life Again
("I had your love and let it go..."
"I guess it took awhile for me to see...., "I need you here with me....").
In those three instances Karen is still the person "singing" about saving, keeping, or fighting
to keep a relationship alive....Karen, singing from a woman's perspective of saving a relationship.
(Or, perhaps I am mis-reading these song !).
Made In America is a great album to "pick apart" !
Although it is not my favorite, there are (as I have written elsewhere)
glimmers of interest on the album to explore.
Yeah, there’s a difference. “Strength” is, quite ironically, a song of great weakness. It speaks to a woman who is so weak of character as to accept any fault of her husband - even if that fault is consistently cheating on her. I know I wouldn’t want to be involved with a woman like that. I want a confident lady by my side, one who knows her worth. The woman in that song seemingly has very little self-worth as she’s willing to stick around while he continually seeks the affections of another.
Th woman in WYBIMLA is not a weak woman; she’s decisive. She’s also the one responsible for losing his affections. In SBL, she’s likely in the momentary state many of us know all too well. She doesn’t want to let go but inevitably knows she has to. I believe that she will, sooner than later. The woman in SOAW likely never will and that’s truly a sad state of affairs.
Ed