Saturday, March 12, 2011

Save the Best for Last, by Vanessa Williams

It is absolutely cold and shitty-ass outside tonight.  The winds have not stopped all day and now, well after sun-down, they still haven't let up, persisting at about 20-35 mph.  The windchill remains well below freezing.  The sun snuck out for awhile today behinds tons of scudding black and grey clouds, and the filth-covered snow is ever-so-slowly melting away.  A typical March day in Wisconsin and I'm SO fricking sick of it.  LOL!

To cheer myself up, I thought I'd do a little research into a song I've been hearing recently on the online "smooth jazz" station I listen to, since the one and only smooth jazz station in Milwaukee was eliminated from the radio list nearly two years ago. Sigh.  The best stuff is always taken away from the public market and I'm left with really bad country western stations, really bad rap music (I detest it, it is nothing but anti-woman filth), a few lousy-formatted "oldies" stations, and contemporary shit music that I cannot stand the sound of.  No one sings anymore - they just scream and hope for the best.  If you don't believe me, watch one episode of American Idol.  The saddest thing is that people with real pipes, like Christine Aguilera, have sold themselves sort and sing shit for money instead of really singing and touching people with their music. 

Well, that's the state of music in the USA today -- but -- getting back to that "research" of mine - it was the 1991 recording of Vanessa Williams' "Save the Best for Last."  It's so hard to believe the song is now 20 frigging years old.  U-N-B-E-L-I-E-V-A-B-L-E.  Each time I hear her sing it on my computer "smooth jazz" station, I hear more and more, if you know what I mean.

The video is nothing to speak of, but she was gorgeous then, and she's gorgeous now, 20 years later.  It is comforting to know that a beautiful woman can remain beautiful despite trials, tribulations, and the temptations of wealth and fame, not to mention the march of Mother Time. Vanessa Williams remains a beautiful woman, inside where it counts, and outside, where it doesn't. 

Save The Best For Last - Vanessa Williams

Sometimes the snow comes down in June
Sometimes the sun goes 'round the moon
I see the passion in your eyes
Sometimes it's all a big surprise
'Cause there was a time when all I did was wish
You'd tell me this was love
It's not the way I hoped or how I planned
But somehow it's enough

And now we're standing face to face
Isn't this world a crazy place
Just when I thought our chance had passed
You go and save the best for last

All of the nights you came to me
When some silly girl had set you free
You wondered how you'd make it through
I wondered what was wrong with you

'Cause how could you give your love to someone else
And share your dreams with me
Sometimes the very thing you're looking for
Is the one thing you can't see

And now we're standing face to face
Isn't this world a crazy place
Just when I thought our chance had passed
You go and save the best for last

Sometimes the very thing you're looking for
Is the one thing you can't see

Sometimes the snow comes down in June
Sometimes the sun goes 'round the moon
Just when I thought our chance had passed
You go and save the best for last

You went and saved the best for last

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