Wednesday, September 29, 2010

To All The Girls I've Loved Before

Interestingly this line dance song has caught my attention. "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" was a smash duet of Julio Iglesias with Willie Nelson. Well..many opined that this song suits Julio far more than it does for Willie Nelson. It's a romantic classic, no one pulls off romance better than Julio. He is relatively much younger than Willie. Undeniable he has both great voice and.. a SUAVE GOOD LOOK!


Julio is the most popular Latin singer in the 70-80's..or maybe earlier. " I Want To Know What Love Is", "If i Ever Needed You", "Moonlight Lady" and 'Always On My Mind" are few of his best numbers which baby boomers and Gen-X should be familiar with. He has also spawned "All Of You" and "My Love, a hit duet with Diana Ross and Stevie Wonder respectively. He's a Spanish and I really love his Latin number "Vuela Alto" Oh Lord..To All The Girls I've Loved Before" has re-ignited my passion for romantic classics..

Herewith for your appreciation is the lyrics for "To All the Girls I've Loved Before":
To all the girls I've loved before
Who travelled in and out my door
I'm glad they came along
I dedicate this song
To all the girls I've loved before

To all the girls I once caressed
And may I say I've held the best
For helping me to grow
I owe a lot I know
To all the girls I've loved before

The winds of change are always blowing
And every time I try to stay
The winds of change continue blowing
And they just carry me away


To all the girls who shared my life
Who now are someone else's wives
I'm glad they came along
I dedicate this song
To all the girls I've loved before

To all the girls who cared for me
Who filled my nights with ecstasy
They live within my heart
I'll always be a part
Of all the girls I've loved before

The winds of change are always blowing
And every time I try to stay
The winds of change continue blowing
And they just carry me away

To all the girls we've loved before
Who travelled in and out our doors
We're glad they came along
We dedicate this song
To all the girls we've loved before

To all the girls we've loved before
Who travelled in and out our doors
We're glad they came along
We dedicate this song
To all the girls we've loved before


In case you are not the romantic sort..perhaps you may also be interested to learn the the parodied lyrics for this song

Version I: (Suitable For Condom Ad)
To all the girls I’ve loved before
The doctor says I’ve got a sore
It’s been there all along
I may have done some wrong
To all the girls I’ve loved before

To all the girls I once caressed
You better go and get a test
What started with hello
Could now be causing woe
To all the girls I've loved before

I looked it up, so now I’m knowing
That if you ever came my way
You really should be H.M.O.- ing
It also wouldn’t hurt to pray

To all the girls who shared my life
I hate to cause you any strife
My message won’t take long
Please check inside your thong
If you’re a girl I've loved before

To all the girls who cared for me
I’ve lived just like a busy bee
I took my task to heart
To pollinate a part
Of all the girls I've loved before

You should have planned on always “no” – ing
And telling me “put that away”
If you find any lesions showing
You’ll know my love is here to stay

To all the girls I've loved before
It’s something you just can’t ignore
The evidence is strong
I gave infected schlong
To all the girls I’ve loved before

To all the girls I've loved before
I want you all to know the score
Because I came along
My virus may belong
To all the girls I’ve loved before

Version II: (Suitable For Pre-Election Campaign)
To all the birds I've fed before
My pantry has no bread, no more..
No dough for bakeries,
So, no more charities,
To all the birds I've fed before..

To all the sparrows at Mc'Dees
Nice french fries, get no more a' these
Panhandle someone else,
Get jobs, this place McSells
To all the sparrows at Mc'Dees

The tasty tidbits I've been sowing
Out my car windows every day
There'll be no more, bad times are showing
Sorry, but this must be the way..

To all Bluejays at KFC
I'm not a bad guy, but you see
I'm out of work, no pay
Foreclosed my house, today
Goodbye Bluejays at KFC..

To birds who beg at Burger King
I can't spare crumbs of anything
I'm in the welfare line,
Toss me some bread, I'll dine
Bye bye beggars at Burger King..

Farewell Bluejays at KFC,

So long, Sparrows at Mc'Dees...


Oh yeah, who said there is no such title "To All The Boys I've Loved Before". Herewith the lyrics for "To all the boys i've loved before", rapped by mayda del valle http://brokencurve.tv/video.aspx?id=2127
Part 1:
We are not your mothers
and are not meant to be
it is not our responsibility to raise you into respectful beings
you have been weaned from the breast of a woman for years
yet you come to us
wounded and half filled with promises you can only keep half the time
trying to suckle our sense of self dry
we've become much to accustomed to sleepless nights and damp pillows
have become accustomed to waiting for our empty beds
to be weighed down with the bodies of men heavy with the scent
and the hands of other women
mornings with swollen puffy eyes are becoming routine
and we simply wanting to be loved
simply wanting to be able to love ourselves unconditionally
simply wanting to be held and feel safe
simply wanting the truth of whether you can really love us or not
play Hester Prynn
wear scarlet letters on our chests
become adulteresses
cheating ourselves out of what we truly deserve
willing to settle for less
willing to act like a little less than a goddesses
willing to sleep with the enemy
men too scared to stop acting like boys
thinking we can love away their scars
so we take the lashes of the insecurities they pour on us
and lick our wounds in quiet mourning for the little girls we lose by the minute
fast fading memories of playing hopscotch
and skippin' rope
we now play freeze tag with each other's hearts
play hide and seek with our love
if we just don't breathe maybe we won't get caught
up in the spider's web we weave while waiting for what we give away to be returned

Part 2:

You said you had a photographic memory
but apparently you forgot that honesty
begins by being real with yourself
and the ones you claim you love
should have never wasted my time
and just acted like the man you claimed and told the world you were
made a production of setting my folks at ease with tales of how you'd do all it ever took to never break my heart
I guess you thought you were talking to a roomful of the deaf and blind
figured they didn't hear you
coz I never saw it coming
but the truth cannot be hidden
what's clouded in darkness will always come to light my love
you shoulda known that
claiming you saw my light so clearly and brightly
so I left
chasing paper trails of promises you'd already set on fire
left with nothing but the ashes of who you'd written that you were
and singed fingers from trying to grasp the impossible

and the only thing I've really lost

are lukewarm kisses
that for too long I kept trying to tune the beat of my heart, a few lies, and stories
about honesty and truth

I guess shit happens

I just wish it wasn't me

and I guess

it's so much better to have loved and lost
than never to have loved at all
I know that's some easy shit to say

but I'm still gonna try to live by it

I'm still gonna try to put my faith to rest in it

I will sleep on dry pillows now in a bed big enough to love myself in

I will awake these coming mornings with my eyes dry and shining
full of the knowledge I am priceless and worth nothing but honesty
I will remove the scarlet letter from my chest and hold the hand of the little girl I used to be
and say I'm sorry to her
I'm sorry for cheating you out of the joy you have always deserved
and I will wait
for a man
to come along
that can give me the truth of how much he can really love me

Leaving jokes aside, seriously there is a rewritten version sung by Alanis Morrisette. There hear the Alanis Morrisette version of the "To all the boys I loved before"
Boys!! Enjoy and have fun then.

1 comment:

Prince Lam said...

Banaena,

Really good stuff. This is outright harassmnent to the other gender.