I love that song, “Accidentally in Love” by Counting Crows! But the problem is how can you accidentally be in love?
Here are the lyrics to the song…
So she said what's the problem baby
What's the problem I don't know
Well maybe I'm in love (love)
Think about it every timeI think about it
Can't stop thinking 'bout it
How much longer will it take to cure this
Just to cure it cause I can't ignore it if it's love (love)
Makes me wanna turn around and face me but I don't know nothing 'bout love
Come on, come on
Turn a little faster
Come on, come on
The world will follow after
Come on, come on
Cause everybody's after love
So I said I'm a snowball running
Running down into the spring that's coming all this love
Melting under blue skies
Belting out sunlight
Shimmering love
Well baby I surrender
To the strawberry ice cream
Never ever end of all this love
Well I didn't mean to do it
But there's no escaping your love
These lines of lightning
Mean we're never alone,
Never alone, no, no
We're accidentally in love
Accidentally in love
Accidentally
I'm In Love, I'm in Love,
I'm in Love, I'm in Love,
I'm in Love, I'm in Love,
Accidentally
Come on, come on
Spin a little tighter
Come on, come on
And the world's a little brighter
Come on, come on
Just get yourself inside her
Love ...I'm in love
Can anyone explain that to me? I am not being dumb…normally I get songs, I understand them, but for a long time I have not understood this song? When you fall in love don’t you fall in love so why did they write “accidentally”? There are no accidents to falling in love…
I guess when I think of accidentally or accidents I think of car accidents, or when you forget to do something, or spilling your drink on accident… all those things are accidents but how is love an accident?
Can anyone tell me…
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He's telling his girlfriend that despite his best efforts, he's fallen in love with her. Maybe he was just looking for the hook up, but suddenly he's thinking about her all the time. He can't help it. He's trying to focus on himself/life/work/music/whatever - but he's continually drawn to thoughts of her.
He might as well just turn around and soak it in. He didn't mean to...but suddenly he's fallen in love. It's like a snowball rolling down a hill....there's no stopping it...it's like the reverse of a typical "snowball effect" - it's not getting bigger... it's melting...like his heart.
It can't be helped under the blue skies belting out sunlight of his shimmering love.
So he surrenders to the strawberry ice cream, never ending love....he can't escape it.
I happens. I didn't intend to fall in love with my husband, we were just great friends and nothing more, at least that's what I kept telling myself. But one day I just gave in. I couldn't fight the feeling anymore (Hey, another song). I accidently fell in love.
it's just a pop song written to market an animated feature. and make money for counting crows (who lost me somewhere around their decision to team up with vanessa carlton and cover a classic joni mitchell song) and their record label. catchy pop songs don't have to make sense. :)
hmm... how does one intentionally fall in love?
See but thats the thing Candyce... I think songs are more than just "catchy pop songs". And maybe I am completely wrong-thats okay I am known to be wrong from time to time.
I mean there are tons of songs that I can't listen to because they just have bad memories or there are songs that I freak out when I hear them because they make me laugh or whatever...
I don't know...
Sean Michael Murphy,
Thanks for explaining that song for me... :)
Teresa,
But did you fall in love accidentally? I mean you said you kept telling your self you were just friends, why? Because you had fallen in love with him and you didn't want to? Did you really fall in love accidentally or was it as time when on you found that you loved him more and more.
I guess to me accidentally means instant.
I still don't get it!!!!!
how can you thank me for explaining it...and then say that you don't get it?
it's right there in black and white...plain as day...
It was a joke...because I still don't get it! :)
trust me, kalla... i definitely think music speaks to people; it's spoken to me who knows how many times. just don't pressure yourself to make a song mean something if it doesn't... it's ok to just enjoy it (for the memories, for the music, whatever) even if you don't get it.
speaking of ice cream and enjoyment, i was driving to panera the other day and thinking it was perfect graeter's weather. we should surrender to the ice cream urges sometime. :)
Oh I enjoyed some fine Graeters yesterday... mmmm! :)
I think it is possible to accidentally fall in love, regardless of whether you heard in in a pop song or not. songs reflect life anyway. but teresa is right. you are hanging out with a person and then more and more you find out that you start really liking them, even when you don't want to.
kalla...go see failure to launch. the movies are the best way to display real life ;) that movie kinda shows a visual of accidentally falling in love! its kind of a cheesy movie, but good because all chick flicks are
I would have to agree with you Jana, that that would be one example of accidentally falling in love.
Well this is certainly an entertaining conversation!
"See but thats the thing Candyce... I think songs are more than just 'catchy pop songs'." So how many people thought Hook was a meaningful, soulful work because of the music and the voicework, that is until they picked up the lyrics...
It doesn't matter what I say
So long as I sing with inflection
That makes you feel that I'll convey
Some inner truth of vast reflection
But I've said nothing so far
And I can keep it up for as long as it takes
And it don't matter who you are
If I'm doing my job then it's your resolve that breaks
Because the hook brings you back
I ain't tellin' you no lie
The hook brings you back
On that you can rely
There is something amiss
I am being insincere
In fact I don't mean any of this
Still my confession draws you near
To confuse the issue I refer
To familiar heroes from long ago
No matter how much Peter loved her
What made the Pan refuse to grow
Was that the hook brings you back
I ain't tellin' you no lie
The hook brings you back
On that you can rely
Suck it in suck it in suck it in
If you're Rin Tin Tin or Anne Boleyn
Make a desperate move or else you'll win
And then begin
To see what you're doing to me
This MTV is not for free
It's so PC it's killing me
So desperately I sing to thee
Of love
Sure but also rage and hate and pain and fear of self
And I can't keep these feelings on the shelf
I've tried well no in fact I lied
Could be financial suicide but I've got too much pride inside
To hide or slide
I'll do as I'll decide and let it ride until I've died
And only then shall I abide this tide
Of catchy little tunes
Of hip three minute ditties
I wanna bust all your balloons
I wanna burn all of your cities
To the ground I've found
I will not mess around
Unless I play then hey
I will go on all day hear what I say
I have a prayer to pray
That's really all this was
And when I'm feeling stuck and need a buck
I don't rely on luck because...
The hook brings you back
I ain't tellin' you no lie
The hook...
On that you can rely
--Hook, Blues Traveler
I think falling in love is very accidental. Yes, people might spend time trying to resist it or ignore it and then either they choose to give into it, or choose to reject it, but the moment it happened was no choice, it was an accident.
We don't like accidents, they are out of our control. We have ideas, plans, priorities, expectations, and accidents do not follow these self made rules. We want control, so we resist, refuse, runaway, and reject the accident.
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