Many years ago I attended a wedding of somebody who had always been very special to me.  I have to say that I have never forgotten her wedding, because of the song that she and her husband chose for their first dance.  I don’t generally think most pop stars are modern day poets, writing wonderful and meaningful lyrics, because most of what they write is nonsense, but one still has to have some regard to the words of a song before choosing it as your wedding song.  They chose what they obviously thought was a romantic song, and perhaps a very sexy and brave song to put on in front of parents and grand-parents, by Heart called “All I want to do is make love to you”.  The problem with the song though is it is very clearly about a lady who has a night in a hotel with a stranger that she picks up on the side of the road on a rainy night, falls pregnant by him and has a child.  The catch to it is that she is already involved with another man and says that in making her pregnant, he gave her the one thing that the other man could not, so presumably the man she loves is infertile.  

I have to say I could not stop cringing while the song was played and the couple romantically danced around on the dance floor and I have always assumed and hoped that most people did not listen to the words and have no idea what the song was about.  I am not going to go into the other troubling aspects of the song – picking up strangers in the rain and taking them to a motel “I knew well”.  One struggles to imagine why she would know the motel well, unless this was repeated behaviour!  I have repeated one of the pertinent verses below.

Then it happened one day,
we came round the same way
You can imagine his surprise
I said “please, please understand
I’m in love with another man
And what he couldn’t give me
was the one little thing that you can”