Day 16 -- An Oldie But a Goodie
"I Only Want to Be With You" -- Dusty Springfield, Stay Awhile/I Only Want to Be With You (1964)
You know what's a really happy song? Like a deliriously, I'm-in-so-much-damn-love-the-world-is-a-better-place-now happy song? "I Only Want to Be With You" by Dusty Springfield. This is one of those early 60s songs that marries the girl group Motown sound with that of the British invasion. It bombastically and giddily expresses, that when you are in love, you only want to be with that one person.
It's not a very complex song. (Here is one of the lines: "I just want to be beside you everywhere/As long as we're together, honey, I don't care") With these general lyrics, it can apply to almost anyone. It certainly applies to me. In its most simple terms, love boils down to just wanting to be with that one person, no matter what you are doing, from date night to cleaning the gutters. Of course, that one person for me is Tyler and although I'd rather have date night, there's no one else I'd rather clean the gutters with.
(FYI, an "oldie" is a song from the early years of rock n' roll, roughly meaning 1955-1970. These were the parameters I chose to work within.)
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