{"id":7424,"date":"2003-12-27T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-27T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/27\/7424\/"},"modified":"2018-08-09T12:18:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T17:18:39","slug":"7424","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/27\/7424\/","title":{"rendered":"More Creepy Love Song Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lordsutch.com\/?entryid=1037\" target=\"new\">Signifying Nothing<\/a>, Chris Lawrence takes Clay Aikens to task for his song &#8220;Invisible&#8221;.  Lawrence decries the lack of subjunctive voice in the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If I was invisible<br \/>\nThen I could just watch you in your room<br \/>\nIf I was invincible<br \/>\nI\u2019d make you mine tonight<br \/>\nIf hearts were unbreakable<br \/>\nThen I could just tell you where I stand<br \/>\nI would be the smartest man<br \/>\nIf I was invisible<br \/>\n(Wait\u2026 I already am)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dudes, that&#8217;s the second scariest song in the universe next to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsondemand.com\/g\/googoodollslyrics\/irislyrics.html\" target=\"new\">Iris<\/a>&#8220;.  Let&#8217;s just break this down:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>If I was invisible<br \/>Then I could just watch you in your room<\/b><br \/>He&#8217;s a <i>voyeur<\/i>, peeping Tom, or valued x10 customer.\n<li><b>If I was invincible<br \/>\nI\u2019d make you mine tonight<\/b><br \/>\nOkay, wait a minute.  If he were invincible, then he would <i>make<\/i> you his tonight.  You&#8217;ve got no choice, he&#8217;s invincible, just lie back and enjoy it.   Fellows, that&#8217;s called <i>rape<\/i>, and that&#8217;s what the word means.  Not patting a reluctant fanny.  Getting made his by Mr. Invincible, yes.<\/p>\n<li><b>If hearts were unbreakable<br \/>\nThen I could just tell you where I stand<\/b><br \/>\nHearts were unbreakable?  You mean <i>if handcuffs were not so confining and the hoods of police cars such unyielding headrests<\/i>, don&#8217;t you?  If you mentioned where you stand, that would be yet one more restraining order in your collection, wot?<\/p>\n<li><b>I would be the smartest man<br \/>\nIf I was invisible<br \/>\n(Wait\u2026 I already am)<\/b><br \/>\nThe final assertion is the scariest.  If he were invisible, he would be watching you in your room tonight.  <i>And he admits that he is!<\/i>  Draw the blinds, turn on some running water and a couple of radios, and stop down at the sporting goods store tomorrow for a nice shotgun for when he gets it in his head that he&#8217;s invincible.<\/ul>\n<p>And they say that <i>video games<\/i> make people violent.  This song is a veritable roadmap to stalking.  All <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsdepot.com\/clay-aiken\/invisible.html\" target=\"new\">the lyrics<\/a> need is a reference to Google, and all the pieces would be in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Signifying Nothing, Chris Lawrence takes Clay Aikens to task for his song &#8220;Invisible&#8221;. Lawrence decries the lack of subjunctive voice in the following: If I was invisible Then I could just watch you in your room If I was invincible I\u2019d make you mine tonight If hearts were unbreakable Then I could just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22196,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424\/revisions\/22196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}