En av de vackraste kärlekslåtar jag hört på senare tid är John and Jodie av folkpunkduon Ghost Mice, även om det i just denna låt bara är Chris Calvin som sjunger och spelar gitarr. Chris Calvin är grundare av Plan-It-X Records, ett bolag som gjort mycket för att lyfta fram folkpunken som genre, men det hör inte hit.
Vad som görjust denna låt så fin är dess ganska speciella text. Speciellt de första och de sista raderna känns som något man sällan får höra i kärleksförklaringar till musik, och just därför har de fastnat hos mig.
Well Johnny Glee Jr. might have been a little crazy
But there ain't nothing wrong with trying to kill the president
Specially when that president's Ronald Reagan, he almost killed us all
Johnny Glee Jr. might have been a little crazy
For getting a little obsessed with Jodie Foster
But how can you blame him, when she's so beautiful
And he did it all for love, he did it all for love
He did it all for love, it was all for love
And Johnny Glee Jr. might have been a little crazy
For letting the movie affect him so strongly
But Robert De Niro was great back then
And it's easy to get swept away
If you ask me he was a true romantic
Like a hero from some fairy tale
I just hope someday, someone will love me that way
Whoa, I want to be loved, yeah I want to be loved
Like John and Jodie
I want someone to want
To assassinate a president for me.
But there ain't nothing wrong with trying to kill the president
Specially when that president's Ronald Reagan, he almost killed us all
Johnny Glee Jr. might have been a little crazy
For getting a little obsessed with Jodie Foster
But how can you blame him, when she's so beautiful
And he did it all for love, he did it all for love
He did it all for love, it was all for love
And Johnny Glee Jr. might have been a little crazy
For letting the movie affect him so strongly
But Robert De Niro was great back then
And it's easy to get swept away
If you ask me he was a true romantic
Like a hero from some fairy tale
I just hope someday, someone will love me that way
Whoa, I want to be loved, yeah I want to be loved
Like John and Jodie
I want someone to want
To assassinate a president for me.
Nu kanske försök till presidentmord är något man vill få tillägnat sig i verkliga livet, men i en låt kan jag tycka det är otroligt smickrande. Speciellt om presidenten är Ronald Reagan, han dödade nästan oss alla.
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