I'm not sure if the love noted here is "unconditional" or "blind". This is exactly the opposite take than a song Johnny Cash once sang called, "It Ain't Me, Babe". In that song Cash sang a line poem listing of things the lady was expecting from him as she hung in his window on the end of a ladder in her pursuit of his attentions. His conclusion was--
It ain't me, babe.
It ain't me you're looking for, babe.
I think I do understand your lyric to some degree. I've told my wife she's already traveled far inside the line in my soul where I stop people to judge them before determining who will be allowed further into my confidence and affection.
I love the lady as artlessly and entirely as I do my mother--though in a delightfully different way. She's got nothing to prove to me anymore. She's done that long ago. Now I simply love her. She has never betrayed that confidence. She has done me good all the days of her life.
The relationship in this lyric seems a little too one-sided and untested to carry all the weight of the singer's devotion. It seems he's overlooking some fairly significant weaknesses in the singee--including the fact that the relationship simply cannot exist without her cooperation.
Maybe this story will help explain what I mean...
Two men owned a cow. One wanted to sell it to the butcher, and the other did not. When the one who didn't wish to sell came out the next day, half the cow was gone. "Why did you kill my cow?" he raged at his former partner. "I didn't kill your half the cow," the partner said. "I killed my half. Your half died."
I'm afraid the singer is buying a cow that won't survive. Hope I'm wrong.
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Posted on May 24, 2000, 9:52 PM from IP address 24.94.94.191