New Song I Like: "The Winner Takes It All"

[livingdeb]

Did I really used to post every day? Do people like that?

Today's goals: apply for the half-time job and do one other yucky thing on my list. Well, I applied for the job. That's good. But I felt extremely lazy today.

Still I did accomplish another important task on my list: I watched a movie my sister had recommended and which I need to get back to the library. I wasn't too crazy about "Mamma Mia!" though I did enjoy seeing the guys made up to show how they had looked 20 years earlier.

But that movie did teach me that I really like quite a bit of the song "The Winner Takes It All" by ABBA and even by Meryl Streep. Of course I've heard it many times, but I've never really paid attention to it. Most break-up songs are pretty over-the-top about how life is over without another person or about how another person is really horrible. But this one is just about how every new relationship is a risk. How will it turn out? (And of course every time until the time it works out is another time that it doesn't work out.)

The game is on again:
A lover or a friend?
A big thing or a small?
The winner takes it all.

I especially like this part:

I don't want to talk
If it makes you feel sad,
And I understand,
You've come to shake my hand.

That's how it really is. Switching into handshake mode is hardly a tragedy. But it sure doesn't feel good sometimes.

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Posting every day

[indigo-rose99.livejournal.com]

Yes, I like reading your posts. But I don't want you to force it. So if every day comes naturally to you... then do it. Otherwise, post when the muse strikes.