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"Oh Girl" - The Chi-Lites

My intentions were to write about something completely different, but in the process of searching I realized that for now I'm still in wonderment.

I can't believe that after all this time, I found this song. Finally. I've been trying since I started you, dear blog. I've been trying since I heard it the first time long ago. Don't get me wrong, I knew how to get it. I just didn't know which version I liked until the familiar harmonica kicked in. It may sound cheesy, but I don't give a damn. It's on my playlist and that's all that matters now.

I feel like I was born into a time that doesn't quite fit me right. I should've came into this world a decade or two earlier when real music had a profound impact on a listener. When it just wasn't about a good beat or catchy lyrics. It was poetic, dramatic, memorable. When love songs were really about wanting and needing someone so much it hurts. You can hear it here. When he sings, even the "oh" eats at me and chisels away at my hopelessness. This is one of my all time favorite classic love songs and believe me, I do have many. But this, this is what I long for...someone who longs for me just as much.

It's a fight...a pull...an uncontrollable urge...As Carrie Bradshaw eloquently stated in Sex and the City's final season (Season 6/Episode 21), "I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love..." Watch it and you'll see what I mean. Hmmm...I couldn't help, but wonder will it ever find me?

Lyrics:

Oh, girl
I'd be in trouble if you left me now
'Cause I don't know where to look for love
I just don't know how

Oh, girl
How I depend on you
To give me love when I need it
Right on time you would always be

All my friends call me a fool
They say, "Let the woman take care of you"
So I try to be hip and think like the crowd
But even the crowd can't help me now
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

Oh, girl
Tell me what am I gonna do
I know I've got a guilty face
Girl, I feel so out of place
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah

Don't know where to go, who to see
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Oh, girl
I guess I better go
I can save myself a lot of useless tears
Girl, I've gotta get away from here

Oh, girl
Pain will double if you leave me now
'Cause I don't know where to look for love
And I don't, I don't know how

Oh, yeah
Mmm-hmm-hmm

Oh, girl
Why do I love you so, yeah
Mmmmmmm
Better be on my way, I can't stay, yeah

Have you ever seen such a helpless man
Oh-oh, no

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