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Originally Posted by Nikolaj
It may hurt everybody's everything, but how about tossing 'Not Make Believe' in? I can't say it's her best song, but I don't get all the hating the song sometimes gets, I think it's a good track.
And I get 'it hurts my everything.' I would.
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I think the song has excellent, evocative qualities. The chorus seems to be what's killer for me. It almost sounds like it's going against the rest of the song somehow. And the lyrics are, to me, moving.
The "it hurts my everything" line is stupid. Yet, I think it fits the message of someone you've known for a very long time being able to push the precise button that will make you feel like a vulnerable child again, no matter what you've accomplished in life. It's a juvenile phrasing to match a description of child like hurt.
On the other hand, I think there's a certain power in the words, "not make believe then" because I can almost hear the speaker saying, "That magic I had over you, back then? It was real and I've still got it. Pretend like it didn't happen and wasn't powerful if you want, but it wasn't -- it's not -- illusion. Not make believe."
Certainly this song is album worthy and I think it's worlds better than
Silver Girl or
RTTG.
Michele