What The Hell Does This Song Mean?

I listen to oldies and this song keeps playing.  I used to like it because the music is really good and the singer has a nice voice. The trouble is, when I actually listened to the lyrics, it just didn't make sense.

Survivor

"I Can't Hold Back"

There's a story in my eyes

Turn the pages of desire

Now it's time to trade those dreams

For the rush of passion's fire

This makes no sense at all.  Is he dreaming or remembering? What kind of dreams was he having if it is time to trade them? As for "passion's fire" he must have just needed a word to go with "desire."

I can feel you tremble when we touch

And I feel the hand of fate

Reaching out to both of us

He can feel her tremble at the same time he feels fate?  Maybe she isn't trembling for him and is afraid of what fate is going to do?

I've been holding back the night

I've been searching for a clue from you

I'm gonna try with all my might

To make this story line come true

Keep reading and you'll see what I mean.

Can you feel the hand of fate

Reaching out to both of us

This love affair can't wait

I can't hold back

I'm on the edge

I can't hold back

Your voice explodes

Inside my head

I can't hold back

I won't back down

Girl, it's too late

To turn back now

Another shooting star goes by

And in the night the silence

Speaks to you and I

And now the time has come at last

Don't let the moment run too fast

I can feel you tremble when we touch

And I feel the hand of fate

Reaching out to both of us

There's a story in my eyes

Turn the pages of desire

Now it's time to trade those dreams

For the rush of passion's fire

I can't hold back

I'm on the edge

I can't hold back

Your voice explodes

Inside my head

I can't hold back

I won't back down

Girl, it's too late

To turn back now

I can see you tremble when we touch

Ooh, and I feel the hand of fate

Reaching out to both of us

This love affair can't wait

I can't hold back

I can't hold back

I can't hold back

Just because something sounds good that doesn't mean it is.

There is a lot of that going on in this country right now with all the talk, talk and more talk, but if you really listen to what is being said, it makes about as much sense as this song.

Congress keeps holding hearings about what the Department of Veterans Affairs is doing or not doing and it all sounds like they care until you look up all the other times before this. The end of that song goes like "You're So Vain"

You had me several years ago

When I was still quite naive

Well, you said that we made such a pretty pair

And that you would never leave

But you gave away the things you loved

And one of them was me

It isn't just this Congress because the problems veterans face on a daily basis have been going on since 1946 when they were supposed to fix the problems veterans had been complaining about decades before that, but they didn't.

We have all the money Congress is spending on PTSD for the troops, but none of it worked the way they said it would. Top that off with no one had to give back any of the money they stuffed in their pockets even after suicides went up. Same story when they became veterans and even more money was spent. Oh, but not just by Congress but by the ever growing list of "awareness" raisers.

Hey if folks want to give them money for just looking stuff up online then David Hannum was right.

"There is a sucker born every minute." The phrase is often credited to Barnum himself. It means "Many people are gullible, and we can expect this to continue."

After all, they can't even get the number of suicides right so how are they supposed to be trusted to get anything else right?

Then there is another group out there making millions a year, to take care of veterans but they turn around and give millions to other charities raising money to take care of veterans.  Donors don't know what is going on with the money they gave in the first place, or the second, or the third but they do know the problems get worse, so they give more money.

As with everything else, including songs that sound good, when you actually listen, it all becomes nails on a blackboard and you have to change the station.