Thirty Days of Song - Day Twenty-Six

Day Twenty-Six - A song that makes you want to fall in love (not!)
Janis Ian - Between the Lines (Between the Lines)

I've already talked about what this album means to me (Day Two - At Seventeen), and while I love every song on this album with a love bordering on obsession, there's something about the title track that gets to me. I don't know if it's the music, the way it goes from achy and soulful to an almost frenetic mazurka, or the way Janis Ian sings in a practically conversational tone, but it moves me in ways that few songs do.

Moves me away from the idea of love and marriage and a committed life with another person.

Listening to it again in preparation for this entry, I realized what it reminded me of, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and the lies that couples tell each other, the games they play with their partner's emotions, the yanking of chains and insincere apologies and lines crossed that can't be retreated from.

Love as an ideal is beautiful, but love as an experience is one I am grateful I don't have to suffer through.

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( If you want to play along, here are the thirty days of song )