Girls grow up faster than boys do
Girls grow up faster than boys
Girls grow up faster than boys do
So, baby, I’m old enough for you
Once you used to date my big sister
Now, baby, she’s too old for you
Won’t you take a look at me now
You’ll be surprised at what you see now
I’m everything a girl should be now
36-21-35
I don’t really know where to start but any analysis of the words ought to leave a skeezy taste in your mouth.
However, what really gets me is that this is a Goffin and K…, thank goodness, not King but a Goffin and Keeler song. Gerry Goffin is a lyricist and so he is responsible for these words and those of “He Hit Me (and It Felt Like a Kiss)”. I understand the background to “He Hit Me” but to translate the complexity of a troubled relationship into a three minute pop song is sometimes beyond the scope of talented wordsmiths like Goffin. I do rather wish he hadn’t bothered trying.
Anyhow, Keeler co-wrote the theme to the charming Bewitched starring the equally charming Elizabeth Montgomery.
PS On the other hand:
I can recall the time
When I wasn’t ashamed
To reach out to a friend
And now I think I’ve got
A lot more than
A skipping rope to lend
When one cabinet minister suggested a curfew on women to deal with an outbreak of assaults on women at night, Golda countered, “But it’s the men who are attacking the women. If there’s to be a curfew,” she decreed, “let the men stay at home.”
Burkett, E., 2008. Golda, New York, HarperCollins, p.247
On Monday’s ten o’clock news there was an item on Max Mosley and how his libel case against the NOTW has been brought under article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and its statement regarding privacy which reads
1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.
I certainly hope they reword it soon because, as it stands, I, and approximately half of the English speaking members of the Council of Europe, appear to have no human rights.