<p>I thought about posting to this thread that our song would probably be a Rolling Stones song, but I don’t think there’s one with appropriate lyrics!</p>
<p>I love Take me to the River, but I don’t know the lyrics except for the refrain. Maybe I should go take a look… LOL, okay I looked - nope not romantic!</p>
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I don’t hear the song as “he’s in love with the woman he’s singing to, and not with his wife.” To me it’s more complicated than that. It’s a song about loss and ambivalence and yearning, but not necessarily about having made the wrong choice. “The kids are fine, they’re 6 and 9…I think you’d probably like my wife.” He’s not alienated from the life he chose, but there’s a hole where this other life, this other love should be. If he were to leave his wife for the other woman, there’d be a hole where his present life should be. There’s no right answer and no easy way out. This is sad, sure, but so true, and expressed with such beauty and power.</p>
<p>mathmom: Romantic, no. Neither song. Sexy, yes.</p>
<p>Our wedding song: Pledging My Love/Johnny Ace</p>
<p>Our Mother/Son Dance at his Bar Mitzvah: Child of Mine/Carol King</p>
<p>Song dedicated to Son at Bar Mitzvah: Sweet Child of Mine/Guns and Roses</p>
<p>Well, dancing which after all is just sublimated sex, right? is what we mostly do with the Stones. Brown Sugar, Under my Thumb, Jumping Jack Flash all very un p.c., but such great music!</p>
<p>NC–I agree it’s powerful. Just a song I woudn’t want connected to my permanent relationship. Let’s just say that we’ve had our own complications (who hasn’t), so a song that goes back to ambivalence wouldn’t be my choice. though I respect it for someone else.</p>