Last Christmas...
Around Christmas time each year I start thinking of Christmas songs.
I was thinking about that song by Wham!, or possibly just George Michael, that goes:
"Last Christmas I gave you my heart.
the very next day you gave it away..."
Now, let's think about how this might work. He gave his heart to someone for Christmas (in the film clip it's a chick, but I guess that's when everyone wanted to believe that George Michael was straight), but they gave it away. What if 'she' gave it away to someone that George Michael didn't actually like? Would this mean that he would be stuck in an awkward situation of someone having his heart that he perhaps didn't even know but felt that he had to commit to because this person was good enough to accept the gift?
What if the person that the heart was passed on to didn't want it either and gave it away to someone else? I imagine it would be very easy to lose track of one's heart under these circumstances.
Maybe the next lines of the song help us to understand the dilemma:
"This year, to save me from tears,
I'll give it to someone special!"
Ouch! A kick in the teeth to the previous owner of the heart who, by implication, is NOT special!
But that's beside the point. It would seem that George, in fact, had reacquired possession of said heart some time between last Christmas and this Christmas. Phew!
Still, take heed! It may have turned out okay for George Michael, but I think we should all be very careful. It would be very easy for one's heart to end up in the wrong hands...
posted by Trace @ 5:20 pm
6 Comments:
I don't think she passed his heart to someone else, I think she just returned it to him. Maybe it would make more sense (but would ruin the rhyme) if he said 'but the very next day you gave it back'. He lied to us through song.
Well, of course that's what he meant- but he didn't SAY that, did he? How much of a semantic sacrifice should one make for the sake of a rhyme? ;)
How much of a sacrifice of honesty should one make for the sake of conforming to sexual norms? George doesn't seem to be too troubled when it comes to sacrificing facts and logic for his art.
Good point!
I'm pretty astute, even for a cat.
I heard the song a few days ago and thought .. Strange that he had tears "last Christmas" for giving his heart away and plans to give it away again "this Christmas"
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